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Sping fishing isjust around the corner

On February 15, 2025

Now that football season is over, spring fishing is just around the corner. Now is a good time to start planning your next trip. Spring is always a good time to catch pre-spawn bass, feeding up before the spawn. If you are looking to catch Spotted bass we’ve got you covered with lakes in North […]

On July 10, 2022

Summertime fishing is here, It’s been a super busy June. We’ve had some incredible trips and caught a lot of fish, We’ve been on Lake Blue Ridge, Lake Nantahala, Lake Burton, and Lake Chatuge. We’ve been targeting Smallmouth, Largemouth, and Spotted bass, Lake Chatuge has been on fire, I’ve been catching fish on top water […]

On August 25, 2021

We do a lot of fishing deep in the summer, most of the lakes we guide on, are deep mountain TVA impoundments. These lakes have Spotted bass, Smallmouth bass, and Largemouth bass, and in the summer these fish will go deep, due to a lot of boat traffic, deeper means cooler water temps and better […]

On May 20, 2021

It’s time to fish, the lakes are at full pool and fish are biting. We are now past the crazy Spring weather, where the lakes were coming up and down from all the rain and we were having warm days and cold nights that kept messing with the water temps. We are now at the […]

On January 6, 2021

I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Winter fishing is getting good, We’re catching some nice Spotted bass in the mountain lakes. All of our lakes are in there winter pool levels and water temps are around 50 degrees, if you’ve never fished in the winter you don’t know what […]

On November 10, 2020

We’ve been super covered up and I admit I have neglected keeping up with my website and social media. But winter time fishing is here, my favorite time of the year. It’s when we have cold nights, leaves are falling off the trees, lakes are dropping for winter pool and water temps are falling. If […]

On May 25, 2020

I want to apologize for not keeping my blog up to date, I’ve been posting on Facebook and Instagram. So this blog is going to be picture heavy. I guess it took us having Covid-19 to actual have a a real Spring this year, something we’ve not seen in a while. But the Spring fishing […]

On February 11, 2020

Well the past couple weeks has been the Rainy day Blues, It’s given me plenty of time to get rods ready, reels oiled and greased up and new line. Not to mention lots of new tackle coming in and getting everything ready for a busy guide season. When you book a trip with me your […]

On September 29, 2019

Fall fishing is almost here, the days are getting shorter, nights are getting cooler, the lake levels are dropping to winter pool levels, which all helps for the water temps to drop. Not to mention this helps the bait fish get more active along with the bass, which are starting to feed up for the […]

On February 6, 2019

We went on our annual Dale Hollow lake trip last month, in search of some big Smallmouth bass. It was a different year this year, the water temps was in the low to mid 40’s, but the lake was almost at full pool which normally this time of year it’s about 6 to 8 feet below […]

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Sping fishing isjust around the corner

Summertime Fishing

Fishing Deep in the Summer

Time to Fish

Winter Fishing

Winter Time Fishing

Spring and post spawn fishing has been great

Rainy Day

Fall Fishing is almost here

Dale Hollow Lake

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