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After
the water temperature starts colling down during
September, October and November. The big smallmouth
and largemouth bass will feed heavily on the large
schools of threadfin shad or so called "yellowtails"
in
the back of feeder creeks off the Tennessee River
system; they start ther and then move into deeper
water.
As
the water temperatures approach the 50 degree (F)
mark, these large schools of smallmouth and largemouth
will start suspending over main river points near
deeper waters (sometimes over 5o feet deep).
These
fish will feed actively through February, as the
weather warms during the middle of the day when
the sun warms the surface temperature just a few
degrees; these fish will come alive usually feeding
on shad that are dying from the cold water temperatures
that may get as low as 38 degrees (F).
Jigs
and soft plastic work well and produce some big
trophy smallmouth even when the surface temperature
may only be in the low 40s.
The
most important thing to remember at this time of
year is that the fish slow down and you are not
goign to catch a large number of fish, but your
trophy size fish is in the 7 pound range (and there's
plenty of them out there).
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