Badin lake fishing reports

[Rookie12]

Nice 'uns Jerry!!! Good job buddy!

[circle hook]

Nice fish jerry way to get er done man.

[beastmaster704]

Dang nice fish Jerry !!

[TubbyFish]

Jerry......CAN I BORROW BADIN ( the dog ) That has got to be the best d@mn dog I ever seen.......he fishes, he stays on the boat and dont wine bout nothin......ect..........


" DIM SHO IS SUM PERTY FISH " Congrats Jerry.

[Doug158]

Nice congrats Jerry

[BUCK]

fished 7am till 3pm 3 fish bigest 25 lb blue . water temp 50. bait was hard did get some in gar creek. alot of perch up river. water stained and they did pull so water most of the day.

[TubbyFish]

Sounds like a day well spent Buck. Least ya put a few in tha boat......I worked in the chicken house all day so no fishin for me

[1 Gearhead]

Thanks for the report Buck , I had to work on this beautiful day and in a building with out windows.

[CMJ]

Sounds like ya'll had a nice day on the water Buck .
I know what you mean Gearhead, it's bad to have to work...

[Leatherneck]

How is the drifting at Badin? Is there long flats that you can have a nice long drift on or is there a lot of contour?

[BUCK]

badin is a good lake to drift. if the winds right you can have some drifts that that a hour or more . or you can use your trolling motor and troll all day.

[Leatherneck]

Thanks Buck. You put your toon in at Alcoa or are there other landing that will take it?

[BUCK]

i put in at old whitley its closer to me but it dont matter. old whitley is closer to where i fish also

[Leatherneck]

Great, thanks. Hey maybe someday when youre not carting Mr Johnny around I could jump on your boat and you could teach me how to fish...

[Rookie12]

Good report Buck, A 25 lb. blue out of Badin is a winning day for me any day. That can be a humbling lake. When you get a good one out of there, you feel like you've accomplished something. Good fish man!

[jerry9497]

Fished this weekend.... the ole hole dried up on me, guess it's time to go scouting again. I'll probably go full scale drifting before long, My backs sore from pulling anchors.
darn new trolling motor was back ordered, should (better) be here this week. oh well got a decent price so wont complain yet. everybody fishing over yonder, so I recon I got the lake to myself.

[tomahawk]

Hey Jerry you know this past saturday mornig there was 4 other boats in your spot. I fished close to the rock wall where I saw you thursday from 0300-0600. Not a bite. I bet that ne wind killed the fishing. Yesterday at Tillery all i got was 1-16lb blue and several big whitebass. I was fishing close to where Jeff was this morning. The winds shift and the fish bite, ain't that some shit. Looks like you have some of the badin blues figured out. Now you have to figure the flatheads out. Not an easy task there.

[jerry9497]

I am going to play around with the flatheads but I havnt caught near the blues yall have so I'm still content to fish for them. Last year I stayed hung up most of the time, when I did catch a fish it was a channel cat. I fish 6500s with weak action for drifting, I would have to pick up some 7000s and set them up a little tuffer. Blues mostly only fight the water, when I fish that shallow flatheads have there way with me.

[Rookie12]

Them flatheads aren't that hard to figure out if you understand how they behave. Most people have got the spring and fall bites figured out, but that in between bite can be tough. Learn to pattern the fish and you will have them. They are a creature of habit. That 50 lb. blue I caught was caught by patterning fish. From the conditions I saw, I knew there should be fish there and there were. I never marked a one of 'em either.

[BUCK]

my brother went with me to badin he catch his pb 27 lb. we got i few small channels then the wind got up fished till 11 . did see 4 Asian men fishing up at white house point they start hollering and caring on and i got my scope out and after 15 mins they boated a blue that loked like it was in the 50s. and off to the ramp they went. shound be agianst the law to fish in this country if you cant speak american.