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Chatuge: Level: 8.7 feet below full pool. Temp: 48-50 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Good. A recent tournament on the lake was reportedly won on jigging spoons, and as the water temperature drops, the spooning bite on main-lake points should improve. The fish are on their winter pattern, which means deep drops and brushpiles. Nathan Lewis…
Chatuge: Level: 6.7 feet below full pool. Temp: 53 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: In December in Chatuge, slow down your presentation. Shake a 3/8-oz. brown on brown jig ’n pig or a green-pumpkin finesse worm in brush in 25 to 35 feet of water. A drop-shot rig is also a good bet in deep brush.…
Chatuge: Level: 6.5 feet below full pool. Temp: 65-67 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Wildlife Resources Division (WRD) biologists were on Chatuge sampling fish populations with electrofishing equipment in early October and found largemouth bass concentrated in downed treetops along the shoreline. The bass averaged two pounds, with one out of every 10 fish weighing more…
Chatuge: Level: 5.0 feet below full pool. Temp: 73-75. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Green-pumpkin worms fished in brush is the most consistent pattern on the lake right now. Rig finesse worms Texas style with a 1/4- or 1/8-oz. weight, and shake them through brush on the 15 to 20-foot range. Drop-shot rigs with the small, hand-poured…
Chatuge: Level: 4.1 feet below full pool. Temp: Low 80s. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Good for numbers of spotted bass, but poor for size, said John Hembree. “We caught 17 keepers Saturday night (Aug. 26), but the best five only weighed 7 1/2 pounds,” he said. “We have been catching 15 or 20 bass every time…
Level: 1.9 feet below full pool. Temp: Mid 80 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Fair. “You have to work for them, but it’s been pretty good,” said John Hembree, who with brother Jerry, has won the last two nighttime tournaments they fished on the lake. “We have been getting six or eight keepers per trip,” said…
Chatuge: Level: 1.6 feet below full. Temp: Low 80s. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Sean Capes was fishing a She Dog topwater plug when a big fish rolled on the bait. “It ripped off about 10 yards of line, and I thought, ‘Man, this is a big spot.’ Then it jumped like it had been shot out…
Level: 1.1 feet below full. Temp: Low 60s. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Good. John Hembree and his brother won a Saturday night pot tournament in May and placed second in another throwing mostly Zoom Super Flukes and spinnerbaits. Wind and cool weather have delayed the topwater bite. “We haven’t had a calm day in two weeks,”…
At 6:20 a.m. Sean Capes and I were on a long point halfway back in Woods Creek on Lake Chatuge throwing topwater. Sean was giving a Sammy 100 a workout, and I was walking the dog with a Super Spook. When the bait was halfway back to the boat, the water erupted around Sean’s Sammy…
Chatuge: Level: 2.0 feet below full pool. Temp: 68-70 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Good. Guide Nathan Lewis was on the lake the last week of April and caught 14 fish including fat 4- and a 3-lb. spotted bass. The fish are hitting Shad Raps, spinnerbaits and either a Bill Norman’s Middle N or Deep Baby…
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