Trout Fishing at J Percy Priest Dam - Winter Trout Fishing Part 2
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ม.ค. 2018
- Once again I am doing some winter Trout fishing at J Percy Priest Dam. Last time I was here I got skunked so I am hoping today will be different. I start out fishing with a Gulp Minnow and a bobber. I eventually remove the float and try to swim it above the rocks without getting snagged. After moving around a bit and switching to Powerbait Trout Dough, I finally catch one! It took three days to catch this one trout. Perhaps as time goes by the bite will turn on even more. I went through a lot to catch this one, but it's my first trout of the year. If you want a challenge, try winter trout fishing at J Percy Priest Dam near Nashville TN.
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That "Hallelujah!" had me laughing in my chair. Was not expecting that sound bite.
Thats what it was really like when I finally caught one. 😀
love your realistic videos , because they are really realistic.
Thanks!
I really like your videos, it shows how hard fishing can really be. Most youtubers just cut out all of the casting and just show themselves catching fish. You show how hard it can be to catch a fish. Also, I like your “commentary”. I find it funny. Thank you and keep up the good work!
Thanks, I try to keep it realistic 👍
Well thats one more trout than I have caught! Nice one!
Ha! You might have caught more 👊
Another quality video!! Keep bringing it man!!
Thanks WOA. Consistency matters 👊
Awesome trout vid!💯💪👊LET'S GO!!!
In New Mexico we used salmon eggs and mini marshmallows. That was back in the 70's before all of these different trout baits they have today. We would chum them in with canned corn too.
Good job out there brother fighting the cold can be brutal but a lil stockie can change that in a heartbeat great job out there man and can’t wait for the next one until then fish on my man👍🏻👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻
Thanks man. I will keep trying 👍
Persistence payed off!
Yes! 😀
wooow ....I told you RF... when the water calm down...the fishing will be better ...nice catching trout....clear HD vid. always learning from you...thanks..and congrats ...greets ✌
Thanks RF. I was happy to finally catch one 😀
Great fishing lads. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks!
Loved it! Trout are frustrating for sure
Some people make it seem so easy. 😂
NICE! glad you finally got one
Thanks, me too!
HAHAHAHAHA I love the music when you caught it.
Angels were singing!
Woohoo! Finally! Well done!
Thanks OLA! 👍
Air Wolf? lolololo dude that shows your age, one of my favorite shows. :)
Wha me worry?
Channels growing quickly man, good work! Keep with it, your already making content worthy of 100k+
Thanks 👍
The enthusiasm was priceless!! Congrats!!
HA-leyluyah!
Nice video as always! Sweet spot to fish as well
Thanks!
We were sitting at 0 this morning, supposed to be back in the 50s after today and tom. Think I would try a Rooster Tail, about the only thing I have that resembles a fly fishing lure lol.
Glad you caught one, rainbow trout taste pretty good actually. Only time I have had it was in Gatlinburg actually lol.
These trout are used to eating pellets for years, thats why I went with dough balls. They might chase after stuff as they get used to the water though.
True, wonder if you could throw a chroma glo crappie nibble on the barb after getting the trout dough on to help attract them and hold the dough.
they would probably bite on crappie nibbles 👍
Realistic Fishing yep those things are deadly, lol.
Beautiful trout and spot!
Thanks 👍
Great video man! Nice job!
Thanks EF
Congrats! Got some momentum going now!
I hope so 😀
YES!!! Congrats on the third day push and catch!
Thanks, its been tough. 😀
Patience pays in the long run even if you just caught one it still feels good to catch one tight lines big guy
It sure does 😀
They stocked 10000 lbs of trout in my local lake I fished for over 2weeks there after they stocked and I have still not caught one lol good catch god bless you my friend
Hopefully you will get one next time. 👊
great video. nice little trout
Oh yeah!
Hey, you got one though! Very nice RF!
Angels sang when I caught this one 😀
I appreciate the authenticity of your fishing videos. :)
Thanks Frodo 👍
Nice trout Alex great video man keep them coming
👍
Good job man! Damn trout!
Dam Trout! 😂
Way to stay with it Alex! Got one!
Finally! 😀
Great video man. Glad to see you get that one. 👍🏻
Thanks Dylan, me too 👍
I have an insanely high amount of respect for your persistence. And it paid off! Kudos,Alex,you earned that trout!
Thats why I have 11,000+ Persistence. 😉
Admire your persistence! I would have kept that one and at least enjoyed a fish sandwich. Another enjoyable video!
Don't give up 👊
beautiful rainbow. I have never caught a trout in freshwater. GOALS!!!
If I can do it, so can you. 👍
Absolutely love that spot your fishing!!! Wish I had a dam like that near me but if course I don't lol...very cool
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Hard worked pays off and this video I a prime example of it.
I love fishing 4 trout their fun to catch ,easy to handle,and taste so good
Yes, awesome, more trout! Something to watch on this bleak day of mine.
I hope you are working on vids 🤔
You would love stocked trout. LMAO
Grats on the trout. Never give up
Never Surrender!
Realistic Fishing I love that movie!
Ha! Same as me ! I only got one on doigh ball, afger mich misery. I never do well with stocked trout. I hate them, lol :). Gj avoiding skunk!
I hope they are just moody after the stocking
Awesome bro, took you long enough to get that well deserved trout.
I know right. Maybe I am too early... 🤔
I'm happy you got one. All frozen solid up here in Illinois. Nice trout.
You ever try ice fishing?
Realistic Fishing yep. Not into it. I need to move and cast. I can't sit there and stare at a little hole in the ice. At least not sober anyway.
Hell Yeah! Mission accomplished good job!👍
Woo! I am glad I got one 👍
Realistic Fishing Cheers!👍😉🍺
Awesome looking rainbow 🌈 trout!!!
Congrats on the trout!
Woo, thanks 👊
Airwolf! Nice hook set on that rainbow trout. They normally swallow the power bait and gut hook themselves.
Yikes. I hope I don't gut hook too many.
Left homework for this lmao
What subject?
Realistic Fishing math ☹️
thank you for sharing...
😀
Treacherous looking rocks for sure 👍
I'm jealous! I've been trying to catch stock trout all winter with no luck. I feel inspired now though!
It was glorious when I finally got one!
Feels Good Ya!!! Great Video Cheers!!! :))
Finally! 😀
I love your videos you have inspired me into fishing a whole lot more you are awesome
Thanks Ann, good luck out there 😀
I love you
Alex, I am bummed. My Okuma TCS rod arrived snapped in two and we received 7 inches of snow today here in North Central NC. However, it is supposed to warm up by the weekend and I will go out for some bass. Nice job with the trout. You are the man!
Yikes. I hope you have a back up rod.
As someone who fishes for Rainbow trout almost exclusively (it's literally the only thing they stock in most of California's lakes,) I find the best way to catch Rainbows is to set up, throw out a bullet weight above a swivel and foot of leader with a nightcralwer and one with powerbait. Then you crack a beer, throw on some tunes, and wait. Sometimes setups with floats work, but in the wind, forget it.
I do have success with things like Roostertails and Super Dupers. They'll hit just about anything that throws a shine. but I've caught far more on worms and dough.
Its 40 degrees when we fish for em here... how about ever there?
Realistic Fishing actually, yeah. Ice been out in 100+ I've been out when it's below 30. Where I grew up in the southern California desert it got pretty cold. A normal winters day was 30 and windy. Fished a lot of mornings bundled up.
Then in summer, is be burning up in 95+ with wind
The place was a special kind of hell.
Looked
Like a sweet spot
It sure is tougher than it looks over there 😅
Spring can't get here fast enough
I know right! 😀
Jan Michael Vincent waved at ya' from the chopper. 😁😁 Man you caught that one under awful trout conditions - slack water. Up here at Wolf Creek when the water quits rolling the fish say to hell with it, playground is closed. But they love hanging on the edge of spillway where it meets the slack water when it's running.
Ha! you said Airwolf. that was my favorite show as a kid. 🚁
It was a great show 👍
It should only get better. Power bait in pink is my go to for stocker trout. Bobber, light line, very small treble hook.
Now that I finally caught 1, hopefully I will have some kind of momentum for next time 👍
The only place ive seen people catch trout at PP right next to the dam. Same side you are on but right next to the dam, using power bait and corn
Well, you just saw someone catch one somewhere else. About 30 ft away from there. 😀
Realistic Fishing I always found worms work better than powerbait for trout. Try a very slow steady retrieve along the bottom. Or work a pheobe spoon, roostertail, or rapala just fast enough to impart action(in the winter trout are lethargic). Also, i know its cold but you should always wet your hands before handling trout or you will severely compromise their immune system. Just friendly advice keep on fishin
Glad you caught that littel one at least! Went out trout fishing on a local lake last weekend for the whole day and got skunked with a slip sinker and powerbait. Saw a few good sized rainbows get caught on that rig. Need to go back for redemption!
Hopefully you can get a few next time. Trout have been a little tricky this year 😀
A good set up for stocked rainbows is a size 8 hook tied to 4lb leader 2 ft from a swivel connected to a barrel weight on the bottom. Garlic scented green is one of the better ones if you can’t find pink
You sound pretty sure about it.
I've never tried to fishing at Percy Priest. I've drove over that bridge/damn a whole lot. Always wondered if there was anything living in there. Good to see you got one !!.
There are fish on both sides of the dam 👍
Those shad there are stingy. I just hate all the rocks. I switched to fishing for catfish there when I don't hit old hickory dam area. That's what's up though. Maybe I'll bump into you one day out here. Great catch on the trout too!
What is a stingy shad?
I ve had luck with powerballs orange garlic scented for stockers
Cool
Inline spinners always work for us at our stocked lakes here in Iowa! Good video
Jon Johnson I was wondering about Rooster Tails, only thing I have close to a fly lure.
Lance Howard yea roster tails are a favorite of ours. White and golds they like bright colors
Or salmon eggs. Those work to if your bobber fishing.
I tried the spinner for a while, but I didn;t get any bites. Hopefully they will go for one after they get acclimated.
and I will tell you ..at least for me ....if im fishing and i cant catch a fish..I only enjoy that time when im on shore...and that its what makes me happy ...cuz there is a lots of people that wish doing the same but they cant...cuz the bussines ..or sickness or health problems........if you just catch one...its ok....no problem...better fishing days will come ...greets body......and nice vid....
I am happy to be out fishing if I am catching them or not 👍
Realistic Fishing me too ha ha ... greets 😂
at min 7:32 oh yes thats what im talking about don't give up man we all like watching your videos rainbow trout are fin to catch the brown powerbait whit garlic and glitter on it i may cost a lil more than regular powerbait but works good video man thanks
Whats strange is everyone has a different favorite that works for them. Doesn't that mean trout will eat many many different things?
Realistic Fishing you right
Fishing for those dam trout looks hard. Looks like you need the right dam bait. It didn't look like those other dam fisherman caught anything. Once good dam catch has to make you feel a little successful. Hope you post another dam video. :) By the way the "Airwolf" reference was epic! Have a good one!
I dam appreciate it 😀
Yellow power bait or red worms works good here in NC! Another good video!
I have had a ton of suggestions and they are all different. Doesn't that mean they will eat a ton of different baits?
Great video! What I have found with trout is they usually tend to like a drifting bait more and more or less tread water with the current with the water most of the time. Also from the video I noticed that you caught a rainbow trout. A key thing with them is their favorite color tends to be pink so if I were you I would try to even track down some pink shrimp or garlic salmon eggs. They usually work great! Glad to see you caught a fish though your persistence paid off!
How do you know pink it their favorite color?
Usually the trout don't start biting till about 5-7 days after they are stocked, or that's what works for me. Wait a couple more days then give it a try
Yup. I am just anxious to catch something. Its been a tough winter.
I'm going for Trout in a couple of weeks. I'm in same boat as you I have little xp with trout but screw it my home lake has been dead.
Good luck out there. I am sure it just takes a bit of practice. 👍
I did not realize i moved close to your area. Any tips for fishing around nashville? Might have to link up with you one day
You definitely show a trait that all fishermen must have, and that's "patients". I was going to suggest a spinner, but I saw in the comments that you tried that. Power bait has always been my go-to bait for stocked trout. With all those shad, I still think a spinner or a spoon on a steady retrieve might be worth a revisit.
I tried trout magnets and spinners for all of day 2 which I didn't show, because I didn't get one bite.
Later in the season when they are hungry... I bet I will get them on something other than powerbait. 👍
Great video man! I trout fish alot in east TN.I catch them when the water is moving better than when the dam is shut down.They love corn and worms (where it's legal)brown or black rooster tails size1.I suck at fly fishing up in the mountains but my friends catch alot of them.Really good brown trout in Little river on up in the mountains and park streams full of brookies and rainbows if you ever make it out this way.Too much snow and wind today.Enjoy your videos man.!!!
Thanks Brian. I would like to try east TN for trout one day. 👍
Man I feel your pain!! I come to priest a few times a year to bass fish with my F-N-Law. It's a super tough lake!! Wish they would try stocking florida strain in there.
Use the floating powerbait. Shape into a ball around your hook so it looks like the feed that they feed them at the Hatchery. Using egg weight ans a swivel to hold the line down. Make your leader 12"-14"
I didn't know they feed them with Carolina rigs at the hatchery 😂
I don't know if like striper fishing but u live on quite possibly the best land locked striper fishery in the country, the Cumberland River system is absolutely amazing for trophy striper, especially right below Old Hickory and Cordell Hull dams, the steam plant in the winter is a great place to catch em.
I have caught one or two, but my boat isn't really a dangerous water kinda boat.
Hell to to the yeah brother!
Woo!
Lol I wish I could fish days A WEEK. I just got into trout fishing and luckily I've caught trout every time on the lake. Like ur vids man. Good info. Going to try the alive liquid stuff. Seen it on ur channel.
3 days a week
Fishing 3 days a week to catch one fish is the worst. I would almost rather be at work. 😂
Realistic Fishing lol true. 1 day of no fish is enough for me. I'd still rather be fishing though 🤙
For stock trout only power bait works. I use the power bait floating balls not the dough. I've NEVER fished for trout and tried all sorts of other things and just got the power bait floating balls the garlic scent and the colors of orange,yellow, white, with glitter mixed in it and I got trout after trout after trout.
I totally mis-read this. LOL. I havent had a chance to try the balls yet, but the dough did well for me the other day. Video coming soon. 😀
Dude they stocked them in Richmond and I can't get one too save my life! That was supposed to be my winter channel content! Epic fails repeatedly!
Its not as easy as it seems. 😂
i fished here at the dam and caught fish in march, i landed one about every other cast, your on the right side but stand on the small wall against the Dam and cast a lure that looks like a bream cast to the wall that comes out from the dam then put the tip of your rod in the water and reel fast as you can, (they are deep where the cooler water is), then slow down. good fishing
Is that in hermitage tn
In my experience, stocked trout like staying next to vertical walls since it is similar to to the tanks they are raised in. I try everything from powerbait to small minnows but surprisingly have caught the most with good old fashioned night crawlers suspended 12-24 inches from a bobber next to cement docks or any vertical surface particularly right after stocking. It seems they venture out to other areas once they get more familiar with their new home. Good luck!!!
What if they are raised in ponds?
How far down from the bobber do you set the minnow?
I don’t think that was really Airwolf man. Still cool. Kudos on the determination, miles driven, time spent not catching anything. And then finally success! Trout! BTW, my Realistic Fishing shirt is proudly worn in the ‘cook’ section of my latest video. Just sayin....
I will try to make it over for a look
No big deal, I was just letting you know. You already know what the shirts look like....
Trout like moving water and rooster tails with the smallest hooks you can find with either a gold or silver(preferred) if you use powerbait give green garlic a try.
This wasn't my first rodeo, but thanks 👍
No worries aha catch em good brother!
have you gone fishing by the tva fossil plant in cumberland city or land between the lakes ?
I don't think so, I don't recognize those names.
you must live east of nashville then . well if you ever get a chance check those places out even tho it looks your doing just fine at your spots .
Rat-l-traps and spinner baits bro, and a small minnow rap, always works
Best time to fish below the dam, is when the sea birds are flying overhead...that lets you know the bait fish have been chased up the river to that point, plus everybody under the sun, is out there......
We get seagulls when then they open the gate and the water rushes through. It stuns the deep shad that get sucked through and the seagulls go nuts!
Great video. Congratulations on the trout! I have released most of the ones I have caught so far too. Try some Trout Magnets. They worked pretty good for me. The trout liked the pink trout magnets. But I did catch one on a yellow and orange one too.
Yeah, I didn't show day two were I fished trout magnets and rooster tails for hours... not one bite. 😂
Oh ok...sorry.. :)
No need to apologize, a lot of people like to suggest baits to use. 😉
When I fished there I used a silver spoon and was catching them left and right.
Lets see the video 😉
Try power eggs with a worm on a hook. Put a weight on your line. The power egg will float the worm from the bottom and put the worm in their face. I always catch them like this.
Batman, is that you?
Let that be a lesson. In future, be more careful from who you accept free lemonade.
Early stocked trout might be used to the food pellets their feed to?
Yes, thats why small baits like corn, eggs, and pellets work good 👍
I didn't know there were trout at that dam, I fished there last fall and caught some white bass.
Great video. I would suggest using whole kernel sweet corn for bait. It has worked for me in the past, especially for stocked Trout.
I might have to try that
Yo them stocker trout love to eat redworms and corn! For future reference. Love the vid