Percy Priest 4-21-2015

Percy Priest 4-21-2015

My fishing partner, Clay Sistrunk and I got to the lake at the Long Hunter ramp about 8:00 am. We headed down lake to Smith Springs to a favorite bank. It was quite cool this morning with a high blue sky. The water had come up rapidly to near summer pool. I as surprised with how few trailers were in the parking lot. Made me wonder if the bite had slowed down. It has. We didn't get a bite on this bank. Next headed over to raccoon island. Fished the channel side around the stumps but again no results. Moved over to the next island Bear Island. By now the wind had come up pretty strong. We moved into a nice size pocket on the island. Clay quickly got a nice bite but didn't connect. Moved all the way around the pocket with a dink or two. Finally caught a keeper size bass on a centipede on a light Carolina rig. We reversed our trail to work back through the pocket (mainly to stay out of the wind). I felt a hard tug on the rod when a nice Smallie catapulted into the air. After a spirited fight Clay netted an 18" smallmouth. About 10 minutes later I caught another 16" Smallie. Finished our round on the pocket and motored across the lake into Suggs Creek. Fished a cove on the right side then the point of the next cove. From here we fished the YMCA cove. Next stop was first cove if coming out of Four Corners. We now moved to the bank leading up to the LaVergne pump house. Clay hooked into the Loch Ness monster. We never saw it before it came unhooked but it was very powerful, diving under the boat several times. We are pretty sure it was a big catfish or drum. Still wishing we could have just seen it. Fished on around the pump house and the cove just beyond it and finally pulled the plug and headed for the dock. I had a total of 7 bass with 3 keepers all on the centipede. The biggest surprise was not getting a single bite on a Squarebill or a jerk bait. Clay had 1 bass on a paddle tail worm but had several bites. The bass just didn't seem to commit. Had an enjoyable trip on a very nice but windy day.