I fished Center Hill today with Braxton Campbell from 7am until 1pm The 4 pictured above was our best.  Braxton had our 2 best fish early and then it slowed down to a crawl. We covered a variety of areas with a variety of baits-soft plastic on a VMC Weedless Jig was the best for me. www.vmchook.com  Braxton caught the best 2 flipping and jig.  An enjoyable 6 hours with a great young guy. Braxton just finished his 1st year in college and is fishing the BFL this year–so far so good.  Thanks for visiting my site Rick McFerrin www.tennesseebassguides.com

I fished CH today from 8:00am until 2:pm and the 6 above was my best of  (I’m guessing I had  20) several very small Spots and Smallmouth.  Everything today on a VMC Weedless Finesse Jig and soft plastics. www.vmchooks.com  10 Lb Yellow Sufix Braid and a 8lb Sufix fluorocarbon leader. www.sufix.com  water temp in the part of the lake I was on was 62 degrees .  I also lost 5 in bushes that I couldn’t get out.  Thanks for visiting my site Rick McFerrin www.tennesseebassguides.com

I fished Tim’s out of Rock Creek today and the 5 above was my best of nine. I’m still working on the camera angle-www.rapala.com  I caught most of them on a new rapala bait that won’t be out until December or JanuMore info to come later I throw 90% of all my crankbait of  Sufix Clear Blue 6lb Pro Mix Mono www.sufix.com   Thanks for visiting my site Rick McFerrin www.tennesseebassguides.com

SORRY ABOUT THE PICTURES—My main camera died and I tried to take these with my cell phone-and obviously not very well. I actually caught and released 14 today-I just gave up on taking pictures. Everything was on either a VMC Weedless 1/8ounce Finesse Jig www.vmchooks.com and soft plastic.  !0lb Sufix Yellow Performance Braid and a 8lb Sufix Fluorocarbon or a Storm Swim Bait rigged on  1/4 ounce VMC Darter Head Jig 8lb Sufix Clear Blue Pro Mix Mono.  I plan to fish Thursday this week as well and will have the camera situation worked out by then. Thank you for visiting my site. Rick McFerrin www.tennesseebassguides.com

Just returned from Lake Hartwell on a short 3 1/2 day trip. For those 3 days Tim and I caught and released 4 Largemouth-1 Hybrid-65 Spots-the pictures above will give you a good idea of what we caught. Conditions changed each of the 4 days. Sunday when I got there at 11:30am (bright sun shine & 70’s) there was a Major League event with 250 boats plus all the wake boats pontoon boats and wave runners. We Caught most of our fish Sunday on crankbaits-I was throwing a  Ott”s Tiny River Shad and the Tiny Green Gizzard Shad-Tuesday It was overcast /rain and high 50’s Most of my fish came on a Rapala Holo Bone Skitter Walk which they would crush. www.rapala.com  Fun Plus! Tuesday and Wednesday it was high 70’s and low 80’s and bright sun shine and you couldn’t buy a top water or crankbait bite but they would get all over a Fluke rigged on a VMC Wide Gap Hook weightless. vmchooks.com  We had a lot of wind each day up to 20MPH  changing directions it seemed 2 or 3 times each day. I used 6 and 8lb Sufix Clear Blue Pro Mix 80% of the time www.sufix.com  The accommodations at the Togaloo State Park was wonderful-Great cottage with it’s own boat dock where 2 old guys could tie up at noon-eat lunch-take a break and catch a short nap before we went back out.  Thanks for visiting my site-My Rotator Cuff in my right arm is better–this was a good test to see how I was going to do.  Rick McFerrin www.tennesseebassguides.com

Ken and I fished Tim’s yesterday and “I THOUGHT” we were going to be in for a great crankbait/Jerbait day. Over cast good wind a little light rain good water color due to recent heavier rains. “Wrong” We concentrated on Many  areas the gave up fish last week on a crankbait by we zeroed.  The big “0”.  So we switched over toward the end of our trip and put 4 in the boat (2 good ones) and had my line break at the leader knot on one.  Even throwing finesse stuff the bite was hard to come by.  VMC 3/16th Weedless Finesse Jigs www.vmchooks.com and Soft plastics rigged on Sufix 10lb Yellow Performance Braid and 8lb Sufix Fluorocarbon. www.sufix.com  Water temp was still in the  high 49 range but with all of the warm weather that we are having it has to start warming.  Thanks for visiting my site. Rick McFerrin www.tennesseebassguides.com

I’m trying to reach a man named JOHN BENNETT if you know him please have him call me at 615-308-9936  Thanks  Rick

Fished Tim’s for 4 hours today-I put in at Holiday and there is no problem getting in or out. All I did was throw a crankbait  and a Jerkbait. The 4 above hit a Luhr-Jensen Texas Red Speed Trap I also lost 1 on this same bait. You can view these baits on our Rapala site at www.rapala.com  6Lb test Sufix Clear Blue Pro Mix www.sufix.com and a VMC Crankbait Snap www.vmchook.com that was was it.  I had one stuck on a Clown X Rap that just came undone that I didn’t see.  I’ve been battling some Blood Pressure problems and just haven’t felt good enough to get out-I think we are close to getting that taken care of.  Thanks for visiting my site.  Rick McFerrin www.tennesseebassguides.com

I fished with Jared Hollandsworth today on Tim’s. Jared and my youngest son Daniel grew up together-so we have known one another for a long time but this was the 1st time we have fished together. Jared had his “Personal Best” 20 inch Smallmouth today and I was elated.   We fished hard for 7 hours and the ones above was our best for the day.  Sufix 20lb Yellow Performance Braid with a 8lb Sufix Fluorocarbon leader www.sufix.com VMC 1/8 ounce Weedless Finesse Jig www.vmchooks.com and soft plastic.  Water temp 48 degrees and lake elevation 874.  No problem getting in at Lost Creek. Thanks for visiting my site. Rick McFerrin www.tennesseebassguides.com

For my out of state viewers, the Tennessee keeper length on Smallmouth is 18 inches which none of these made it. I just wanted to show 6 of the 8 that caught today and the baits I used. These were 12 to 16 inches.  First everything was caught on either the Lurh Jensen Texas Red Crystal Speed Trap (it looks brown in the pic) but it is very red www.luhrjensen.com  and a OG Tiny Coosa Special  crankbaits. www.rapala.com   All on Sufix 6lb test Clear Blue Pro mix Mono www.sufix.com and a VMC Crankbait Snap www.vmchooks.com  Water temp was 49 degrees and the fish were very shallow–3 to 5 feet at the deepest. I threw several different deeper bait like the DT6 and DT8 but no results.  Just a heads I wouldn’t use the State Park Ramp—Trailers are getting hung up.    Thanks for looking  Rick McFerrin www.tennesseebassguides.com