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NORRIS
FISHING REPORT
5 June 2008
WATER CONDITIONS
The water elevation is 1016.3-feet,
which is about 5-inches lower than it was last week. The water level is expected
to remain steady over the next two days.
The water surface continues to warm
with the arrival of hot weather. In the morning, the surface temperature has
been 74 degrees, rising to 77 degrees in mid afternoon on sunny days.
In most locations, the water surface
was clear. Windy days and boat traffic can cause a mud line to develop along
the shoreline - a good area for anglers to fish in otherwise clear water.
SUMMARY
The cicadas which are so loud in the
woods these days are flying into the water along the shoreline where fish are
gorging on them. Small topwater plugs jerked erratically in very short
increments are catching fish where the insects are most numerous.
WALLEYE are hitting at night for
most anglers, but some have caught nice walleye in daylight hours by trolling
chrome spinner/worm rigs or the pink Jet Lures at 24 to 30 feet in clear water,
as shallow as 10 feet in a mud line and once in awhile as deep as 50 feet.
SMALLMOUTH BASS hit best at night on
small hair jigs and at dawn on topwater plugs. LARGEMOUTH BASS improved a
little since last week, hitting shallow near the shoreline brush at dawn.
CRAPPIE were hitting under the
lights at night, after the holiday boat traffic died down. STRIPED BASS were
slow, but some were caught at the break of day in the Island F to Lost Creek
area. BLUEGILL and REDEAR SUNFISH (SHELLCRACKER) are hitting in the brush and
shallows (5 to 10 feet) in the coves from the Girl Scout Camp in Loyston Sea,
along the Big Ridge State Park property to Poor Land Creek near Hickory Star
Marina. Bluegill catches improved considerably
*****
LARGEMOUTH & SPOTTED BASS
Moderate (best at dawn and dusk)
Slow after 9 a.m. on sunny days.
Surface to 15 feet
Some on buzzbaits and small topwater
plugs in early morning in the coves.
Small plastic worms/lizards in
pumpkin or watermelon shades with green or red colored flakes, Carolina or
Texas rigged on points, especially. 4 or 6 inch plastic Sliders or Flukes
rigged Carolina or Texas style in the brush and on shallow sloping gravelly
areas at dusk.
Shallow in the hollows near brush on
spinners or jerk baits. Best at the break of day in the back of coves and creek
hollows. Some as shallow as 3 feet in the back of the coves near wood.
Crankbait fishing was mighty slow to produce, especially on the Powell side.
Night fishing has seen some caught
on plastic lizards or worms, Carolina or Texas rigged near broken rock banks.
SMALLMOUTH
BASS
Moderate at night and at dawn before
8 a.m.
Small topwater plugs or buzzbaits at
the break of day where these fish have been observed breaking the surface. Baby
Spooks, Zara Pups, Tiny Torpedoes, PopR’s, or similar lures. Smallmouth have
been seen eating the cicadas which are floating on the surface.
3.8 ounce black/brown hair jigs
tipped with small trailers fished on the bottom from the shoreline down to 15
feet at night on larger broken rock, but are also as shallow as 2 feet where
large, broken rock is in the shallows and near shoreline brush. At dusk or
dawn, near the bottom on long, sloping gravel/sandy clay points at about 4 to 8
feet, but large broken rock is producing more fish.
Half-ounce spinnerbaits with single
chrome Colorado blade, 4 or 6-inch Slider worms or lizards. Slow rolling
spinners or working the jigs deep, on the bottom at night.
Large shiners fished on the bottom
on gravel/clay points at 5 to 10 feet deep are catching good smallmouths.
WALLEYE
Fair at dusk and night
Shallow in shoreline brush at dusk
and at night; 24 to 27 feet if trolling in the daytime.
Trollers can find walleye on the
bottom near rocky banks and flooded timber/brush at 24 to 27 feet deep,
especially near schools of alewife in the Loyston area. Some were caught in the
mudline on the lower Powell River arm, from Point 9 to Point 10, much
shallower.
Lower end walleye are on the red
clay/gravel points and main channel banks near brush and rock outcroppings.
Shad Raps, Rogues, Husky Jerks, or Thunderstick -type plugs cast to the red
clay/gravel banks near wood structure-button bushes and sycamore trees - at
dusk and after dark.
A small number of anglers are
catching good walleye after dark on threadfin shad fished from the
shallow-sloping shoreline, on the bottom with slip sinkers.
Some anglers are catching good
walleye on large plugs (Thundersticks or 911 RedFins) cast beyond the lantern
light.
Cove Creek, Mill Creek, Loyston Sea,
Lost Creek, the islands near Hickory Star, the Powell River arm from Crumley
Hollow to Point 10 in mud lines.
STRIPED BASS
Fair
Surface to 25 feet.
On the Powell river arm: slow, but a
few were caught between Point 10 and Point 14.
On the Clinch river arm: better than
the Powell side. Island F to the islands near Hickory Star and to Lost Creek
and the mouth of Big Ridge Hollow. ½ ounce leadhead jigs tipped with 3-inch
Twister grubs in white/chartreuse, trolled on planer board rigs, shallow but
far behind the boat in clear water areas. Umbrella rigs or trolled 1/2 ounce
doll flies, 3 or 4 inch shad colored Bass Assassins or Flukes cast to the
points, or live shad/alewife driftlined or trolled.
Trollers or driftline anglers may
encounter a lot of floating debris on calm mornings.
CRAPPIE
Moderate. Best at night under
lights.
The pattern and location remain the
same:
In brush, 10 to 15 feet deep, as
deep as 20 feet on some days, in brush near the bottom. In the larger creek
hollows (Sycamore, Vasper Hollow, Davis, Lost Creek) anglers may find spawning
crappie near flooded timber and brush, shallow. Davis Creek has been the best
place to find large crappie. Fish brush on the steep banks and on the bottom
from the Well Springs access down the main creek channel a mile or more below
Powell Valley Marina.
Troll small doll flies or leadhead
jigs with twisters, on the bottom at 20-feet deep in Sycamore Creek, or in
Davis Creek where some stringers averaged 1 lb per fish this week. The Powell
River above Union County Dock is good, but you’ll have to search to find brush
holding crappie in any numbers. Use medium tuffy minnows or 1-inch tube jigs or
1/32 oz or 1/64 oz popeye flies tightlined into the main channel brush/tree
tops channel and hollows. Or tightline into deep brush with the same rigs or
with tuffy minnows.
Stained water sections of the main
channels, and the head of larger creeks where the water is stained are best.
BLUEGILL/REDEAR SUNFISH
(SHELLCRACKER)
Good
5 to 15 feet deep
Some large shellcrackers have hit
small minnows, red worms, nightcrawlers, or wax worms fished under floats or on
the bottom near brush in the hollows near Big Ridge Park and Poor Land Creek.
Bluegill are hitting crickets and waxworms at 15 feet, for the larger ones. The
2008 Fishing Regulation booklet has an illustration of redear sunfish.
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