# popeyedpete, Hiwasee, Bass, 4/29/2009 **URL:** \ **Category:** Tennessee Fishing General\ **Created:** [April 30, 2009, 9:00am UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/popeyedpete-hiwasee-bass-4-29-2009/393656 "2009-04-30T09:00:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![FishNews](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/47e85d/32.png) [@FishNews](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/FishNews)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 9:00am UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/popeyedpete-hiwasee-bass-4-29-2009/393656/1 "2009-04-30T09:00:03Z")
I decided to give the Hiwassee a try this afternoon 5:pm to 8:PM. The first 30 minutes were sort uneventful throwing spinner baits and Texas rigged lizards in tree tops in 6-8 foot of water. \
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I saw some shallow fish running shad in a flat and moved in. The water was so shallow I couldn't use my trolling motor so I had to stop and tie on something heavy enough to cast a good ways. I tied on a bleeding shad rattle trap and chunked it as far as I could throw and started burning it back to the boat. WHAM \
Bass #1 smacked it first cast. I kept throwing traps for the next 45 minutes and caught 18 bass. Several keepers but nothing special. \
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I picked up my spinning rod and tied on a pearl fluke with a 1.0 Hook and slung it up in some shallows. Twitched two or three times and BOOM caught a nice \
3.5 pounder. I fished with it a few more minutes and caught 7 slicks. \
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I doubt the water was more than 2 feet deep anywhere I caught fish. Water temp was 66 degrees the one time I remembered to look. \
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I sure do wish we were holding the Ratman TX at B&B Marina this week. emoLaugh