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As many of you know, Josh and I started hosting a little Friday evening wildcat out of Ditto. We really, really, hoped that the weather would cool and the bite would turn on. The first week we hosted it, which you can read about here, it seemed to look that way. Everyone seemed to catch fish and there were some good bags weighed in.
The next week, well, it came back to earth. Only two limits were weighed in and they weren't great. We probably caught seven fish all night.
The hot weather remained, but on Friday it had dipped from the mid-90s to the upper 80s and TVA was pulling 45,000 CFS. It's too bad water temps were still around 83. We had a good turnout of boats and I expected good bags and a fair amount of fish to get caught.
Josh and I started where we have been starting: just outside of Ditto. We've been catching fish pretty quick on cranks here, but they weren't having it. I swapped to a worm, dumped a 2.5 pounder at the boat but we both put in a decent keeper. We didn't get bit again so we moved down river a bit. Only had one bite, but it was a keeper and it came on topwater, or first of the fall.
Three fish in the tank, we hopped around and we both caught a keeper on a spinnerbait on wood on back to back casts. We thought we might be on to something, but we didn't get touched afterwards. But, hey, we had five.
We ran up to the point of Hobbs where we've caught our bigger fish. The first week we caught a ton of fish including several over three. Last week, only one but it was a 4.5 pound smallie. Not today. Not a sniff.
The sun was down and while we caught a couple of shorts around Ditto, we were going to spend the rest of the evening inside Ditto throwing a spinnerbait. Josh caught the big fish of the tournament while tossing the spinnerbait around boat docks.
We didn't have much and while that three pounder helped, we thought surely someone would have even more.
Unfortunately for everyone else, finding five fish was just as hard for them but we managed to find one good one.
We took a win with almost 9 pounds. It was far from stellar.
Eventually the weather is going to turn and it's going to get good, but not yet. We caught most fish on a spinnerbait, but really, that was only two or three.
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