This past Saturday the wife and I fish a local tournament out of Ashland City, TN on the Cumberland river. This was the 2nd tournament we fish together.  We have never fished this part of the river before so I knew it would be a challenge.  The day started very overcast and small rain showers.  We took off #13 and headed down river a few miles to a small creek that I knew had some good deep water and nice trees to flip.  It was not long and Blanca hooked a good fish but it turned out to be a 14" Sauger, wrong fish.  She caught it on a Sweet Beaver on a jig head.  We fished the creek for about an hour with no fish.  We moved back out to the main river and started fish the points of creeks with rock.  We caught several small fish thru out the day but just could not find any good fish.  With about an hour to go we pulled up on this little point that with the current created an eddy.  She tossed her little 1/8 oz jig with a Sweet Beaver and as it rolled with the current and slipped into the eddy a fish would eat it.  I tied on a 3/16 oz bitsy bug and did the same thing.  We must have caught 15 fish out of that eddy but again nothing that measured.  A lot of 13" fish and just not big enough.  We didn't win anything but it sure was fun to catch all those fish and to test a new area of the river.  Fishing new waters is always fun and challenging.  I will take what we learned and apply it to another river or lake in the future.

        

 

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