pickwick, my father and i want to go catch some bass on pickwick. never been there but we have a boat. what patterns have been working? please any help. and where do yall launch coming from memphis

The rocks along the dam pretty much is always a solid pattern down there for at least catching fish..

pickwick, my father and i want to go catch some bass on pickwick. never been there but we have a boat. what patterns have been working? please any help. and where do yall launch coming from memphis

How far east do you want to come? When you cross into Alabama on 72 and go across the double bridges over Bear Creek take the first road to the left. You'll go a short ways and take another left that will dead end on the old 72 bridge. There is a ramp there. Its not much and is very secluded. If you stay on the same road that you turn off of, go on across the railroad tracks and over the next bridge and there is a ramp there as well. You can continue though about 8-9 miles i guess to Rose Trail Campground and there is a very nice ramp there. You are on the main lake there and its just a short piece on over the river channel. Now, if you want to come farther east. Stay on 72 and just past Colbert Steam Plant, there is a ramp at Pride Landing. Ive never launched there but it looks fairly steep. There have been some break ins there as well. If you want to launch in the Shoals, then come on down to Sheffield and launch at Riverfront Park. Good ramp there. If you are night fishing then no doubt you need to launch at McFarland Park in Florence. That would be your best option. Its well lite and much safer.

i was thinking about the one on the tennesee/mississippi state line  in yellow creek and  can i fish yellow creek and the river with a tennesee resident lisence or should i get a mississippi one?

Put in at Yellow Creek, next to the Shell Station.

Start off fishing the docks in that cove. Then, go

across the lake to Panther. Fish everything in there

that looks interesting. Coming out of the creek,

fish the bank down river on that side of the lake

past the duck blind.

Further down is Dry Creek. Fish the flat to the

right of the mouth. Then motor to the back and

fish the right hand side (coming out) all the way

back to the entrance. I have had good luck flipping

and pitching the brush, but you need to be right

in the thick of things.

You can fish all of these areas with a Tennessee

license.

Good luck!

8-)

Been catching some good fish in Yellow these last few weeks, but most of my fish have been coming from the ledges and humps in 19-25 ft of water out on the main lake. 

You can fish all of Yellow all the way to the Scruggs bridge where the Tombigbee starts with a MS License, as well as all the way down to the mouth of Bear Creek, if I remember correctly.

goodness thanks yall. i love flippin a strike king jig with a rage craw trailer. never fished the ledges but it sounds great carolina rigging elaztech strike king lizards (they float) and rage tail lizards and craws..and maybe some devils horse action early? thanks yall. you really are some stand up folks.

goodness thanks yall. i love flippin a strike king jig with a rage craw trailer. never fished the ledges but it sounds great carolina rigging elaztech strike king lizards (they float) and rage tail lizards and craws..and maybe some devils horse action early? thanks yall. you really are some stand up folks.

You can hit a lot of the rocky points in Yellow Creek for the first hour of daylight with a devils horse or a spook and catch the mess out of em. Then switch to a crankbait as they go deeper. Most of my fish have come on 3/4 - 1 oz Football Jigs w/ Rage Craw trailers and 10 inch T-rigged Rage Tail Thumpers, as well as Carolina Rigged Lizards and finesse worms. If they're pulling current, I don't even mess with the topwater bite on the points. I just head straight out to the ledges and humps and start deep. Get your arm broke dragging that big jig across them shell beds!

Also, if you put in at Stateline Ramp where Roadwarrior mentioned, take that jig/craw and/or a shakey head and hit the boatdocks on the left hand side in Yellow Creek coming out of the no wake area.  Exit the no wake area and head towards the main lake.  On your left you'll see 4 white bouys that mark a hump.  Fish those boat houses right there.  That hump comes up to 3-5 ft and then drops down to around 25 ft and then comes back up to 8-10 ft by the boathouses.  Boathouses have been real good, especially when the sun gets up high.

one more question please. i always hear yall talk about shell beds but what are they and how do you find them.

The shellbeds are Mussle shells.  You can find them along the main lake channel on the humps, points & ledges with your sonar or a C-rig / FB jig.  Look on the upcurrent side, Mussles are filter feeders so they need a clean spot with some current hitting it.  Hope that helps, I'm just getting started on TN river bass fishing myself.  Those ledges are a lot of fun to fish but there is usually a crowd around the good ones!