Early fall strippers fishing

While in the air force my nephew Nathan’s friend and roommate Chris, was staying at McGee Tyson on a training exercise. They planned to fly in on Friday night and fly out Sunday morning, giving them all of Saturday to get into something. Being an avid sportsman, Chris knew that Nathan could hook him and his trainee up with some kind of outdoor activity.

Nathan met them early below Melton Hill dam where they spent a few hours trolling shad for stripers with only a large mouth bass to show for their efforts. Next after eating lunch they went below Ft Loudon dam where I was to meet them for a little more striper fishing in the tail waters. They called and told me the water was not generating enough and they would try there a little on their own before going to Tellico Lake for smallmouth bass.

They got the shad for bait below Tellico dam and headed for the lake. They caught a few smallmouth’s, with one nice 3