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Originally Posted by TNtransplant08
Alphahawk~I noticed that you said you have used the trout magnet in the boils below dams to catch panfish. Whats your techique in the boils, such as how deep below the bobber do you typically put the bait and do you just through it right in the middle and let it swirl around in there?
Thanks in advance.
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I mostly do this at Pickwick..but I know it used to be done at Wilson with great success until they put a fence up after 9-11. I have found out recently..courtesy of Clean Air..that it is the same at Nickajack. I do not throw right in the boils...although I have tried it and have caught them....I get close to a boil and put it in the swirling part that would be called a cutback. But it is also great right on the bank close to the dam or down river......where there is swirling current....and I mean they can be right on the bank in 2 feet of that swirling water and I have sometimes caught them as deep as only 6 inches and then others it is deep just enough to get it into or above the rocks. You can also do good using the Twitch method if the cutback is big enough. This is a Spring time and early Summer happening...most of the time. But I will start doing it at Pickwick.....and now Nickajack...around 1 April. As you know that will depend on the water temps after Winter. You will be shocked at how many and how big these Bluegill will be. It was an 80 year old man that showed me how to do it 5 years ago. He was so old he had to crawl down the rip-rap on his hands and knees. The water was really high...that is another thing...the higher the water is in Spring the more there are and the bigger they are. He did it with Crickets but the TM works just as good. It would have to happen at OH too but I have noticed I get much bigger Bluegill at Pickwick than at OH and Percy. Barkley is great for this also. You can do this below any dam that is going into a lake known for big Bluegill. I did it a lot at Pickwick the last 2 weeks or so but depending on which generator..and that would be anywhere...you really need that swirling cut back....I don't know why but they hang in there. I assume it is for food because the ones I caught a couple of weeks back at Pickwick were all fat and regurgitating minnows. Yet in the Spring they are in there feeding on something else....maybe insects..larvae...something. Let me know if I can be of any other assitance.
Regards