The big bass are biting as we speak. Day 1, there was a strong big bite window between 10 and 11 AM, the second best hour of the day with 7 fish over 3- pounds being caught.
In the last 10 minutes, we saw the leaderboard light up again as John Cox, Jeff Gustafson and Cory Johnston all boated bass over 3- pounds. And they did it in a variety of ways all over this expansive fishery.
After staring at bass on his graph all morning, Gussy made a move and hooked up with an aggressive fish in the first 5 minutes at his new location, to boat his third keeper smallmouth of the day out of 20 feet of water.
John Cox hung his Frittside shallow crankbait up in a muddy creek on Fort Loudon, tried to dislodge it and a 4- pounder did so for him. As soon as he got this bulging bass in the boat, the livestream cut to Cory Johnston over in crystal clear Tellico just in time to see a 3- pound largemouth choke his crankbait.
The big bass are firing at all depths all over these two lakes right now. It’s time to have for the anglers to have their baits in the water and make the most of it.
