Scott, Ethan, Ian, and I went crappie fishing on Watts Bar today. We launched out of Bell Cove and fished Angler's Cove. We fished with grubs (smoke, shad, and chartreuse), with floats about 3 to 4' deep. The map below shows where we caught the crappie in the order of our progression. We caught a couple of keepers off spots #1 and #2 within the first few minutes of starting the day. Spot #3 was the real hot spot of the day - we probably caught 5 or 6 keepers of the pylons of this dock. It has great depth (~6') and numerous double pylons, so it's like a monstrous stake bed. Spot #4 was a downed tree that held a few fish and spot #5 marks where Scott caught the big fish of the day (on a shad rap) trolling across the open water heading back out of the cove. Spot #6 is the one to remember, it is about 10 new bamboo brush piles that someone placed about 25 yards from the dock shown in the map below. We caught a few crappie here, but when the lake is up 3 - 5' these will not be visible but will definitely be worth checking out for bass and crappie. Over all we kept 11 crappie, and fried them up this evening.
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