Bait at loudon or watts bar?

[nate2800]

Plan on going up in next couple days maybe. Anyone seeing any bait below these dams?

 

[SpurHunter]

There is always some, finding it when you want it, in a place you can get it is the trick.

 

[nate2800]

Yes sir you are correct. You always see the birds catching it. Why can't it be as easy for us?

 

[SpurHunter]

Because of that Murphy dude!!!!!!!!!!

 

[nate2800]

We got some really pretty thread find at nickajack a couple weeks ago. Most bait I'd seen in years

 

[Max Cat]

Here below the Guntersville dam we are doing best right at sun up, not sunrise but day break I guess you would call it. The jumbo threads and gizzards are so thick for about an hour that you can just about scoop them up with a net and you get a skipjack on every cast while they are in a feeding frenzy during this time. With the current avg 15,000 cfs at most of the dams (Guntersville, Wheeler and Wilson) the pattern is the same bait wise. You should try it up there. We are just fishing the seams by the wing walls at these damns using foley spoons and a 6 foot cast net.

Here's a pic from a few mornings ago. https://twitter.com/MaxCatfishing/status/754469439341490177

 

[deerhunter3]

fished Watts bar Sunday, plenty of threadfin shad on the wing wall.

 

[nate2800]

We went to nickajack yesterday free work and thread find were thick on the wall. The were running about 33000. Pretty bait prob averaged 3"

 

[SpurHunter]

nate2800 - 7/23/2016 3:25 PM

We went to nickajack yesterday free work and thread find were thick on the wall. The were running about 33000. Pretty bait prob averaged 3"

I have been there several times in the past two weeks and not seen any at all on the wall. Amazing how it changes from day to day.