Thanks Whrizob and Travis,
I agree with both of your thoughts. The numbers are a little messy on this one because the discharge can go on and off during a day, but the creel results are only reported by the day. I can't separate the hourly discharge changes using the creel numbers. So the results are generalized to an average of the discharge conditions for the day.
I can look at generation from both Old Hickory and Cordell Hull (+ Center Hill) so this is looking at flow through current not just OH dam generation.
It is totally possible that all the fish are caught during generation, but that generation only happens for an hour that day. So it looks like the low generation day is good for fishing. But this is many thousands of interviews with many different generation schedules, so it seems difficult to believe that every day fits that pattern. People seem to be catching fish during low generation conditions.
I wonder if the numbers reflect the average bass fisherman going along the shoreline. Rising water and low current would be good for this pattern. Falling water and high current would not. For the offshore ledge and point bites the second condition is better, but I don't think most bass fisherman really know or fish the offshore bite as well as the shoreline bite. Even after years of fishing, I still like to toss baits to visible structure.
Thanks for you thoughts,
Jim
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