We fished pickwick an yellow creek on friday out of stateline. fished all of dry creek, state line island area, and a bit of upper yellow creek. fishing was poor and slow. Not sure what i was doing wrong. Found the shad and a few smaller fish but size and numbers werent even close to being there. Thinkin we shouldve tried to get a jerkbait bite around bluff walls and gravel banks. most to all of the heavy shad concentrtions were on gravel banks. Then the boat broke down smack dab in the middle of yellow creek. motor was running just fine but lost foward and reverse gears so a nice arkansasan in a ranger fish-n-ski towed us in. So if the arkansasan is a member, THANK YOU. He told us that the last two days (wednesday and thursday)fishing had been great but today (the day i came) it was horrible .On the way back we called our boat motor mechanic to see when we should bring it in and described the problem and he told us how to fix it at home. (What a great guy -bryan at eds prop shop in memphis). And sure enough just like he said the gear shifter bar that connects the header to the lower unit had come unscrewed and it took 20 secs. to fix but ruined a day on the lake. I still like pickwick though and this wont be my last trip there.

yep wednesday was great for us.  and the idea you had on rock banks and gravel beds is right on!

Fished out of Florence Saturday. Found a short topwater bite

early and that was it. No water = no fishies!

I hate the TVA weekend water release program.

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