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Skinny Water 2/16-2/18

With forecasts of windy conditions I opted to fish the skinny water of the Stones River this week instead of Center Hill. Wednesday we had 3 largemouth and 1 smallie in 3 hours fishing all on Prowler Tubes in watermelon pattern. Thursday I went solo and switched to crappie and I had 20 plus crappie 18 were 9 inchers and 2 were 10.10 or so small gills and 3 largemouth. All came off one tree on a chartreuse bass assassin fished in the deepest structure I could find.This was just one tree that I could find and stay on in the wind in the 4 hours I had to fish. Friday, friend and client John Devries and I got to the river about 8 and fished till 3. The water temps were 2 to 3 degrees warmer than on Wednesday with ranges for the three days, 49 to 54 degrees. The highest temps being as far up stream as you can safely run the boat. We hit the crappie tree first with a slow 4 fish all 9 inchers and then switched back to tubes and craw style plastics for most of the day with better results. We boated 12 Largemouth 2 Spots and 1 smallie loosing 2 more at the boat. I did crank a bandit 200 shad pattern and caught 1 other smallie on a sand bar that was soaking in the sun. We did not have any giants but had a good time catching fish during this warming trend. The pictures are the largest we caught. Mike Dial www.tennesseebassguides.com