Cuba Landing Marina

I like to fish on the Tennessee river system. Cuba Landing Marina has one of the easiest boat ramps to launch your boat from. They offer a very friendly atmosphere, full service marina and awesome fishing all around the marina. Soon you can purchase Fishin Tool Bag from their bait shop. Visit Cuba Landing Marina Facebook page.

Spring Time Red Eye Shad

When spring time comes, love it in the water for most species of bass. With water temps moving into the 60's most bass are getting ready to spawn. This can mean a hearty appetite while they fatten up for the spawn. I have found that the best mean for these hungry bass is Strike King Red Eye Shad. While these new lures are nothing more than the original rat-l-trap. They have a different look and swim different than the old rat-l-trap.

I have been using one and have had very good luck. The only problem is that you spend more time trying to get the hooks unhooked when you catch something. Although I always have my FishinToolBag near by which makes it easier to get my tools when I need to unhook something.

Mercury Optimax DFI Engine Oil

With Spring right around the corner, a lot of us are getting out onto the water for the first time this year. Since our boats has been sitting for the winter, we sometimes to forget to check things like the engine oil. My Nitro boat has a Mercury Optimax engine, this is a direct fuel injection two stroke engine. Because of this I always carry some extra DFI oil with me. Since it's a two stroke it requires oil to mix with the fuel.
So it was nice day and I went out on the lake with my Fishin Tool Bag, I was running down the lake and the low oil alert sounded on the engine. At that moment I realized that I didn't check the engine oil. I stopped and added some oil. I f I didn't have some extra oil with me, this could have been a bad day. I was about 35 miles from the boat ramp.

So the next time you are buying engine oil get an extra one to stow in the boat.

Crappie Pond Fishing for Jaws

Sunday I took my son and his friend to my father-in-laws pond. This pond was stocked about 25 years ago and has more crappie than one pond should have. On the first cast, I had two crappie on the hook after the same bait. We ended up fishing for about two hours and caught more fish then you would ever imagine catching.



Almost all the crappie were over 15 inches long and very healthy. But one fish that we caught was odd, it had a huge bite mark on its back. This pond only has crappie in it, so what did this? We think that there might be some bass in there too!

Best Kept Secret

For most average fisherman, we all have that favorite spot on the lake we fish at and almost all of us always head towards that favortie spot first thing when we go out on the lake. Most of these favorite spots are because, we have a memory about a large fish we have caught at this spot.

In almost every case we focus on trying to catch that big one again. Before you know it, half of the day has passed by and you haven't caught that big one you had dreamed about. Well, I found myself in this same situation several times before, so a few days ago I went out and forced myself to find new places and was determined to make my new place work for me.

I fish on the Kentucky lake / Tennessee river system, this is very much like the river system that I grew up on Lay Lake in Alabama. On Lay Lake I had a spot near the wilsonville steam plant, I could always go to, to catch fish. My favortie spot was near the water outlets of the steam plant, if they where moving water you could be sure to catch fish.



For the past year I have been going right past the water outlets near the Johnsonville, Tennessee fossil fuel plant. This power plant is like most fossil fuel power plants, they have water discharge pipes that release warm water into the river. I have always avoided the water discharge pipes at the Johnsonville power plant, I have avoided this area mostly because there is a large number of boats in a small area. So on this day the TVA was moving a lot of water on the river due to snow melt up north and to control river flooding.

After about 30 minutes of fishing, I had caught five large mouth bass over 5lbs and had my limit. Although I stayed in this spot for about another two hours and caught 15 fish and had one of the best days in a long time. So the next time you are out on the lake, give that new place a shot. You might be surprised on what you catch.