To All My Memphis Pond Hoppers!

[Mr. Ranger]

I'm headed to International Harvester in Lakeland tomorrow- anybody had any recent luck out there?

 

 

[coloradofire]

So I have been meaning to post this a while now and have finally gotten around to it but last year a week after Thanksgiving I was fishing at Appling Lake in Bartlett.  Caught a few bass on really soft bites and then I felt a slight bump and set the hook on this monster using a red crawfish rattle trap.

[Tery Songz]

1 hour ago, coloradofire said:

So I have been meaning to post this a while now and have finally gotten around to it but last year a week after Thanksgiving I was fishing at Appling Lake in Bartlett.  Caught a few bass on really soft bites and then I felt a slight bump and set the hook on this monster using a red crawfish rattle trap.

awesome where did u catch this? could i have the adress id love to catch catfish there did you release it?

[coloradofire]

It's at Appling Rd. and Summer in Bartlett right across from the Bartlett police station.

[Tery Songz]

On 6/19/2016 at 3:04 PM, MFBAB said:

I had a couple of odd Buzzbait catches last week, thought I'd share. 

Wednesday night I had a 5 Lb. catfish just destroy the buzzer, the biggest cat I've caught on one.  I didn't think too much of it, stranger things have happened. 

Then, 2 nights later, I had a massive blow-up on the Buzzer at a different pond, I thought it was a monster bass...but about 30 minutes later and all the way across the pond, it happened again! This time it was about a 6 lb. cat,  and I knew instantly what was going on.  They are spawning right now, and just being territorial!!

At any rate, if you like to catch catfish, I would advise going shallow and fishing for them in areas you would for spawning bass. 

BTW, the bass are biting lately too:

This collage was one night last week over about a 90 minute period, 4-5-6-7 Lbs. 

This one weighed 6.5 and darn near swallowed my buzzer, I've never seen one down that deep before.  I only had about 5 feet of line out when she hit too!

Hope everyone is catching a few!!

where did u catch that catfish at ive been despertly looking for a good catfishing place in memphis for over a year lol. did u release em

[MFBAB]

11 hours ago, Tery Songz said:

where did u catch that catfish at ive been despertly looking for a good catfishing place in memphis for over a year lol. did u release em

Those were 2 different ones, but one of them was from Landsdown park in Germantown. 

A good way to find catfish places is just to look up where the local fishing rodeos are held-do a google search, I think TWRA has a master rodeo list somewhere on their site.  Audubon Park, Appling Lake, Johnson Park (Germantown), are a few.  These ponds are stocked w catfish annually for the rodeos (during summer) and there are always some holdovers that get big.  I have heard of, if not actually witnessed nice catfish being caught at most of the park ponds I've fished.  They are there. 

And yes, I let those nasty slimers go :) 

[Tery Songz]

8 hours ago, MFBAB said:

Those were 2 different ones, but one of them was from Landsdown park in Germantown. 

A good way to find catfish places is just to look up where the local fishing rodeos are held-do a google search, I think TWRA has a master rodeo list somewhere on their site.  Audubon Park, Appling Lake, Johnson Park (Germantown), are a few.  These ponds are stocked w catfish annually for the rodeos (during summer) and there are always some holdovers that get big.  I have heard of, if not actually witnessed nice catfish being caught at most of the park ponds I've fished.  They are there. 

And yes, I let those nasty slimers go

i caught a 10 lb blue cat at johnson park. the one with the baseball fields. 2-3 hours of my bait in the same spot a half inch crawfish tail.

[Tery Songz]

i fish a 2 acre pond with 15 lb large mouths and a TON of 3 inch blue gill i came to it a few days and i see dozens of beds with bluegills all over them are these bluegill beds or bass beds? i saw a 1 inch lmb cruising by its self in the pond so i know the bass should be done spawning. are those bluegill beds. and also what type of fish are those black half inch things that got a white streak through em? i put a dead bluegill for an hour didnt get a bite. think theres catfish in that pond or no?

[MFBAB]

Sweet! 15.2 Lbs. is the state record for TN.  You need to reel one of those babies in and get your name in the books!! 

I've been looking for a pond full of 15 Lbrs. for a while myself :) 

[Tery Songz]

a police officer caught one in a lake no one fish's only a few people and we all knwo each other. all catch and release. 3 years ago he caught a 14 lb lmb. so i guess its over the record right now. just find a big lake that is fed by a stream or something that could hold fish. a dude caught a crappie there thats the size of a laptop screen.

[Ndq1124]

Does anyone know anything about the lakes off stage road in Bartlet behind krogers?

[SouthernBelleAngler]

On 7/4/2016 at 9:49 AM, UFpwrLifter said:

Don't know about a tree, but appears someone caught the man made double sunken plastic chair reef and forgot to release it. 

Hey!  I saw that floating in the water.  Glad someone else is helping to clean up the waters in our neighborhood lakes.

[jcbendall]

On 8/18/2016 at 3:24 PM, Ndq1124 said:

Does anyone know anything about the lakes off stage road in Bartlet behind krogers?

they are more drainage than lake, but the one closer to Kirby Whitten isn't very deep and the back one is stocked.

where is everyone having luck recently?  Been tough times over at Grove & Nashoba the past two weeks. 

Been to a few golf courses with minimal action & Shelby Farms is, well, Shelby Farms.

[SouthernBelleAngler]

On 6/23/2016 at 1:41 PM, roadwarrior said:

Welcome aboard!

The majority of posts on this thread are about neighborhood ponds. Locally I fish Halle Park in Collierville; Grove and Nashoba in Germantown.  My "home lake" is Pickwick.

 

Hello!  In early  spring I fished Germantown Station and never caught anything over 2lbs.  Lately I have been fishing The Grove like a mad woman with zero luck.  Have got a few bites at Johnson Park, Germantown but have yet to pull anything out of the water.  Love to fish but haven't caught anything.  Have tried every bait I can think of and nothing!  Just last week my husband and I hiked to a run off from the Wolf River behind Lowe's on Germantown Road and there were so many catfish swimming around I was in absolute awe but they would not bite.  We literally thumped them on the head with liver bait but it did not even scare them!  They would swim right past and act like nothing was there.  I have never seen anything like it.  I am not a big fan of catfish, especially after that trip.  Has anyone ever experienced this before and if so, why weren't they biting?

Going to try The Grove & Johnson Park today.  What baits are good for these two types of lakes?

[roadwarrior]

The bite is slow right now, but will improve as the weather cools. Soft plastics are probably your best bet right now. I have had some luck with the Fat Ika and Senko.

 

[Tery Songz]

4 hours ago, roadwarrior said:

The bite is slow right now, but will improve as the weather cools. Soft plastics are probably your best bet right now. I have had some luck with the Fat Ika and Senko.

 

yesterday the bite for me was epic. every bass was biting. the pond i fish has the water level high and it made some areas really shallow i spooked two 3 lbers sitting in 1 foot of water. they were probaly feeding on crawfish. didnt catch anything. but i went to a lake here in memphis and the bass was all crazy. the small bass were near the weeds feeding on insects and small fish from this years spawn. i there a senko and a small swim jig with a crawfish trailer on them weeds a few times and caught about 2 small dinks. then i went to a shallow part of the pond 1/2 feet and i threw in any soft plastic and jigged it off the bottom and it would get hit in seconds. my squarebill didnt do much. i even put it in there faces, they seem to be loving soft plastics like senkos,lizards,crawfish type baits too. watermelon green is working best. 

i forgot to mention i caught about 5-7 bass yesterday only 3 or so were big about 1.5-2 lbs one 12 inch dink died i gut hooked him and blood was all pouring from him. i threw him back he struggled for 5 mins then floated up and died unfortuantly.

rest were small. i was focusing mostly on small fish. since i had my ultralight

and tips on how to catch a 10 lber. a woman there told me she sees people pulling out giant bass out of there should i fish big bass in open water or near a laydown i know there. whats a good bait for a 10 lber atm

[Tery Songz]

im a tn resident and wondering how much a license to catch trout is in tennessee. the twra website is too confusing. any one know how much for trout fishing and a link please. thanks

[gr8outdoorz]

1 hour ago, Tery Songz said:

im a tn resident and wondering how much a license to catch trout is in tennessee. the twra website is too confusing. any one know how much for trout fishing and a link please. thanks

 

A resident trout stamp is $22 in TN. You must have a valid fishing license then have a Trout Stamp added on. 

[Tery Songz]

On 8/24/2016 at 3:19 PM, gr8outdoorz said:

 

A resident trout stamp is $22 in TN. You must have a valid fishing license then have a Trout Stamp added on. 

see i saw that 22$ and i got confused but its for annual trout. im going to be fishing park ponds stocked in the winter.

 

https://www.tn.gov/twra/article/resident-fishing-license-j1

 

it says all species 11.50 does that mean i can fish trout with that license? 

one day fishing is 6.50 does that include trout? any one know? i dont want to spend 22$ i can barley put a roof on my head.

[roadwarrior]

http://fishinglicense.org/tennessee.html?utm_source=RL.org&utm_medium=Affilate&utm_campaign=Tennessee

One day "all species" is $11.50 and includes trout. The annual trout stamp is $22.

[Tery Songz]

10 hours ago, roadwarrior said:

http://fishinglicense.org/tennessee.html?utm_source=RL.org&utm_medium=Affilate&utm_campaign=Tennessee

One day "all species" is $11.50 and includes trout. The annual trout stamp is $22.

thanks man. the creel limit is 7 right.? 

[Tery Songz]

i went fishing at johnson park 3 days ago the one in collerville. was catfishing using a gut hooked dead 1 lb lmb i make into fillets for catfish. no cat bites and no luck. no one was getting lucky. so i caught like 5 longnose gar. one was 37 inches one 30 and one was like 18 i kept one for bait. couldent cut through it and throwed it away the rest i threw back in the pond. i read online there invasive. should i kill em and throw em away or toss em back in. all i can see is shad jumping and gar swimming uptop the water. i think its bad for some of the fish. all the bluegills are staying like 20 feet of any gar.

[Mr. Ranger]

How is fishing lately?  I've been out of it for a few weeks- life gets in the way of good fishing.  I'm headed to a private farm pond to get some froggin practice in.  Also may go try Grove again.  Anybody had any luck there lately?

 

 

[roadwarrior]

Thursday was best fishing of the year at Grove. I fished a Rage Tail Structure Bug from noon to 1:30. One Walmart Girl, two of our typical 5-6 lbs and two smaller fish. It has been years since I have caught multiple fish at this pond. Back to normal yesterday, two bites and one small fish.

-Kent 

 

[Mr. Ranger]

On 9/10/2016 at 4:43 AM, roadwarrior said:

Thursday was best fishing of the year at Grove. I fished a Rage Tail Structure Bug from noon to 1:30. One Walmart Girl, two of our typical 5-6 lbs and two smaller fish. It has been years since I have caught multiple fish at this pond. Back to normal yesterday, two bites and one small fish.

-Kent 

 

Sounds like a nice day.  I changed plans and went to Nashoba- caught a couple 2 LBers and missed a big one, all on a Senko.  There was lots of topwater activity, but I couldn't get any bites on topwater baits.  Going again during lunch break to try and get 'the one that got away'... I'm sure it was a 14 pounder....at least!