Golf

What to Expect Each Season

Good Fishing Year-Round

Spring-(March-June)

Concentrate on deep ledges, gravel points, and bluffs. Head for weed beds and shallow stumps as water temperatures increase in April. Fill your tackle box with plastic worms, jigs, spinner baits and big crank baits.

Summer-(June-September)

Now is the time for blue and channel catfish. For all fish, your best luck is to follow shell mounds, and underwater humps.   Keep an eye out for large schools of largemouth & smallmouth on ledges. Local fishermen say to use a jig, big crank baits, spinner baits, Carolina Rig Lizard and live shiners to lure in the big ones.

Fall-(September-December)

Trophy fish are abundant along the riverbanks, woods, rocks and anywhere baitfish can be found. Smallmouth bass congregate in the tailwaters of Wilson and Wheeler Dams. Many anglers have success drifting live threadfin shad in the swift current for trophy smallmouths. Fill your tackle box with top water baits, spinner baits, jigs, and plastic worms.

Winter-(December-March)

Tailwaters of Wilson and Wheeler Dams provide excellent opportunities to catch sauger (we call them jack salmon) when they migrate upstream to spawn. Winter also is an excellent time for smallmouth bass fishing on the Tennessee River. Use small jigs, worms and willow leaf spinner baits in white or white/chartreuse.