Old Hickory Lake, Tennessee Fishing Report

Old Hickory Lake General Information

Welcome to FishingNotes.com Old Hickory Lake fishing report page. Here you will find all the information you need to make the best decisions for today's fishing. Current weather including air temperature, barometric pressure, wind speed and direction are continuously updated throughout the day. Vital fishing information for Old Hickory Lake, including mean water temperature and moon phase. Help in choosing what time to hit the water with daily sunrise and sunset times plus moon rise and moon set times. We would love to hear how your fishing trip went, feel free to share your days success on the community report page. Good luck and we hope you catch a full bag today!

Old Hickory Lake: Besides its many parks and recreation areas, Old Hickory Lake is home to several group camp facilities such as the Boy Scouts? Camp Boxwell, Lincoya Girl Scout Camp, Fraternal Order of Police Camp for underprivileged children, the Easter Seal Camp, and Ruillman Rehabilitation Center, all of which provide outdoor experiences for thousands of young people each year. Bank fishing areas with accessible fishing piers exist at Rockland, Sanders Ferry, Shutes Branch, and Bledsoe Creek State Park. These piers can be accessed from parking areas via paved paths. Fish attractors are maintained in close proximity to these structures. [Old Hickory Lake. www.nwk.usace.army.mil, 02/05/2008]

State:
Tennessee

County:
Davidson

Inpoundment Type:
Lake

Surface Area (acres):
22500

Lake Management:
Army Corps

Latitude:
0.00000000000000

Longitude:
0.00000000000000

Water Clarity:
6-10 ft

Water Temp Factors:
Powerplant

Maximum Depth (ft):
65

Normal Elevation (ft):
445

Boat Access:
Paved Ramps

Boat Limits:
No Restrictions

Old Hickory Lake Largemouth Bass Fishing

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Old Hickory Lake Largemouth Bass Rating:

3.5/5
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- Caught males in the shallow water on plastics that had a white underbellies. Caught female
spawning on a spinnerbait.
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- Caught male largemouth up in shallows of a cove around cover on a spinnerbait. Fish was very stocky. Had been feeding on shad pushed in the cove. Caught female largemouth with really light color off of deeper point on rapala crankbait. Observed a lot of bass hitting shad on top late in the afternoon. 3/18/2011 Fish were caught at 4:45 pm and 5:45 pm.
- I CAUGHT A 3 POUND BASS ON A WORM .
- Largemouth Bass or any bass usually hit Black and Blue Bass Jigs make sure the jig is 1/8 of an ounce lure.All it takes to trigger these beautiful fish is to throw your jig,and let it sink to the bottom and raise the jig maybe 2 inches off the bottom and the fish will take the jig and usually run.These tips are not something a pro fisherman wouldn't share with anybody so try this tip and trust me this will work.
- Have been catching Large mouth bass on a 3/8 oz buzzbait with a plastic 4 and 6 inch swim bait as a trailer slow retrieve in 2 to 6 ft of water. Creek channel mouths have seemed more productive on the upper end of the river,dont be scared to throw a spook in these areas. My wife caught an 8 pound Largemouth on the buzzbait.
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- Have been catching Large mouth bass on a 3/8 oz buzzbait with a plastic 4 and 6 inch swim bait as a trailer slow retrieve in 2 to 6 ft of water. Creek channel mouths have seemed more productive on the upper end of the river,dont be scared to throw a spook in these areas. My wife caught an 8 pound Largemouth on the buzzbait.
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- Use any crawfish like lure and work it EXTREMELY slow when you feel the slightest tap, set the hook
- Fishing is still a little tough on Hickory. The water Temp. Sunday was up to 65 degrees at its warmest time
and they were still not as active as to be expected. I do not believe fish are fully transitioned yet. Granted,
there were fish caught but not like one would expect with the water temperature where it was. White
seems to be the color to use and 2-8 feet were the running depths noticed.

Give it a week or two and I think things will change considerably.

- Caught 3 keepers yesterday (4/22/12)and roughly 15 short fish with one being right
at the 5lb range. Caught all fish in main lake small coves \"crankin\" banks that
the 20mph wind was hitting.

- Crankbaits were workin pretty good.Most of them are being caught o n smaller crankbaits/Medium reel speed.

Largemouth Bass Tips for Current Conditions:

Largemouth bass fishing is going to be slow with the water temperature at 47 degrees. If you have a chance to get out on the water, you are going to have to fish deep and slow. Jig fishing and Plastic baits may be your best bet this time of year for largemouth bass. You may also try fishing some sinking jerk baits.

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2012-05-01
Report By:Guest
Fishing Rating: 3
Water Temperature: 70

Bass being caught on secondary points/rocky points. Being caught on soft plastics and crankbaits. Still hard to find them right now though.

2012-04-25
Report By:Guest
Fishing Rating: 4
Water Temperature: 62

On 4/24/12 My father and I caught caught and released 11 large mouths. One at just over 4 lbs, one about 2 1/2 lbs, and the rest around 1-1 1/2 lbs. Caught the first 2 in the early morning on a white and silver top water popper. Then the rest during a 2 hour span around lunch time, 11-1 o\'clock, on dark plastic worms and lizards with tails dipped in garlic. Was a great day on Old Hickory!

2011-03-21
Report By:Irish911
Fishing Rating: 4
Water Temperature: 59

We were catching and releasing small stripped bass as fast as we could throw our lures in the water for about an hour around noon on light colored rattlers. My son caught a really nice largemouth bass on a crawdad lure. Fishing is really starting to improve.

2010-07-08
Report By:Guest
Fishing Rating: 3
Water Temperature:

"Caught 5 largemouths Sun. evening 1 hour before dark on chartreuse and white spinner bait,1-3 lbs. in 3-5 ft."

2010-07-08
Report By:Guest
Fishing Rating: 1
Water Temperature:

"6/18/10 caught 2 14"" largemouth in shallows on swimbait before 8 a.m. caught 3 keeper crappie 12-14"" 8-10 ft deep on minnows,crappie are scattered in 10-15' of water moving back into creek channels"

Old Hickory Lake Smallmouth Bass Fishing

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Old Hickory Lake Smallmouth Bass Rating:

2.8/5
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- Can't believe OH is rated two and a half for smallmouth... I live on this lake and fish it three to four time a week... I started targeting smallmouth several years ago... I go to Dale Hollow often and catch lots of smallmouth. Very few Smallmouth on OH and they are very small... not the right habitat...

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Smallmouth Bass Tips for Current Conditions:

Smallmouth bass fishing is going to be slow with the water temperature at 47 degrees. It's time to fish deep and slow. Try some deep primary points, drop offs, and old river channels with rocks. Jigs, plastics and deep jerk baits will be your best bet to boat a smallmouth.

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2010-06-13
Report By:Guest
Fishing Rating: 1
Water Temperature:

"fished today caught 3 blue gill, 1 nice cat and 1 nice smallmouth all on rooster tail..nice day"

Old Hickory Lake Crappie Fishing

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Old Hickory Lake Crappie Rating:

3.4/5
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- We were catching striped bass on ratlers real steady for about an hour, regretfully none were large enough to keep but we had fun. My son caught a 16 large mouth bass using a crawdad rig. With the warmer weather the water tempature averaged 59 to 61 degrees. Water clarity was good (you could see your lures 2 to 3 feet down.
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Crappie Tips for Current Conditions:

Crappie fishing is sometimes at its best with the water temperature down this low. Crappie will be in large schools and follow the large shad schools around in extremely deep water. Find the deepest parts of your lake in old river channels and scan your graph for schooling shad. When you find the school, drop your plastics or live bait down to the bottom of the shad and get ready. Many crappie fishermen will be catching awesome numbers and size of fish this time of year. If you are brave enough to get out on the water this time when the water temperature is this cold, it can really pay off. Be careful out there, remember to boat safely. Never take any chances at these temperatures.

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2010-06-13
Report By:Guest
Fishing Rating: 3
Water Temperature:

"5/28/10 caught 13 crappie 10 were nice keepers largest being 14"".in 10 ft of water,caught one keeper in 5 ft on jig.the others were on minnows,trolling"

2010-06-13
Report By:Guest
Fishing Rating: 2
Water Temperature:

"5/30/10 caught 9 crappie,6 keepers in 5-6 ft of water on minnows(drop shot)1 was shallow 2 ft on a jig"

2010-05-28
Report By:Guest
Fishing Rating: 1
Water Temperature:

"4 nice male crappie in 4-6 ft of water,lots of blugill and small bass no keepers"

2010-04-19
Report By:Guest
Fishing Rating: 2
Water Temperature: 60

"4/11/10 - Three large male crappie on grubs in 6-10 feet of water. They still have not moved up. Water is till too cool. Perhaps later this week things will heat up. On the verge of good fishing for bas, crappie and bull bluegills."

2010-04-11
Report By:Guest
Fishing Rating: 2
Water Temperature: 62

"went out for a 3-4 hrs,we caught 1 real nice crappie 2 keepers 1 throw back.fishing was real slow,in proven great crappie holes ???? i dont know what the deal is"

2010-04-04
Report By:Guest
Fishing Rating: 1
Water Temperature: 53

"Went out March 27th, trolled all over and only caught a tin can and 1 Crappie. Seems they are still a little deep and the water needs to warm up just a little more."

Old Hickory Lake Walleye Fishing

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Old Hickory Lake Walleye Rating:

2.3/5
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Walleye Tips for Current Conditions:

Walleye will be staging and getting ready to spawn now. With Walleye spawning grounds generally on gravel and rocky bottoms and preferring clean water. Start looking for pre-spawn fish in deeper waters with easy access to shallow clean water rocky bottoms. Walleye should be feeding aggressively right up until they start laying eggs. This is a perfect time to be fishing for Walleye.

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2012-04-08
Report By:adamsguidesvc
Fishing Rating: 4
Water Temperature: 58

Saturday April 7 I was on Old Hickory today with John and his son John who were the winners of a free trip from Doug Markham's Outdoor show. John had called and setup a walleye trip and then we had to move it to today. I was a little concerned with all the warm weather but pretty sure we would figure it out quickly, which we did. We checked 2 areas and the 1st had nothing happening and then the 2nd had fish but the current was too swift. We then moved to our final location and had a blast. We caught over 30 walleye and sauger and a myriad of other fish. I had an absolute blast and look forward to going out with John and his son again, we discussed a trip while we were out there. We caught our fish on 8lb test Suffix Pro-Mix, 5/8th oz jigs tipped with minnows bouncing the bottom. If you are interested in taking a trip contact Mark and have your day setup for you. Give Mark a call at 615-829-3902 or check us out at www.adamsguidesvc.com

Old Hickory Lake Catfish Fishing

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Old Hickory Lake Catfish Rating:

3.7/5
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- I think the rating should be closer to 5 out of 5. I hear they are on fire, expecially below the dam. (today is 6/16/10)

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Catfish Tips for Current Conditions:

The catfish family comprises of blue catfish, flathead catfish and channel catfish. Since catfish are warm water fish, they aren�t going to be very active in this water temperature. They will still be feeding, but catfish will only be found very deep and feeding very slowly. Your best bet is give some of the more active fish species in your lake a shot until the cats are active again.

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2012-05-05
Report By:Garret1234
Fishing Rating: 3
Water Temperature: 78

Good 3 pound catfish. we were useing an 8/0 treble hook baited with cut up hot dog seasond with garlic salt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!

2012-04-18
Report By:Guest
Fishing Rating: 1
Water Temperature:

4/18/2012 Finding channel cat's in drakes creek on the east banks around boat docks. Seem to be in search of the shad. Shad are hit or miss now. seem to be there one day and gone the next. Not much luck catfishing on the west side of drakes creek yet.

2010-05-28
Report By:Guest
Fishing Rating: 1
Water Temperature:

Fished the rocks for Catfish. Caught 1 that was about 4lbs. Caught 4 nice Blue Gill also all on night crawlers. The Catfish was full of eggs so we put her back.

Old Hickory Lake Spotted Bass Fishing

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Old Hickory Lake Spotted Bass Rating:

3.1/5
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Spotted Bass Tips for Current Conditions:

Spotted bass fishing is going to be slow with the water temperature down this low. It's time to fish deep and slow. Try some deep primary points, drop offs, and old river channels with rocks. Jigs, plastics and deep jerk baits will be your best bet to boat a Spotted.

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Old Hickory Lake White Bass Fishing

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Old Hickory Lake White Bass Rating:

3.7/5
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- I THINK THE RATING OF THE FISH SHOULD BE 5/5 BECAUSE THE FISH ARE GOOD BY THE DAM.

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Old Hickory Lake Striped Bass Fishing

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Old Hickory Lake Striped Bass Rating:

3.2/5
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- fish the shallows with a little to medium sized shadrap

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Old Hickory Lake General Fishing Info

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2011-11-18
Report By:Guest
Fishing Rating: 3
Water Temperature:

Stripped bass hitting today. Caught 3 in a few min. Must have ran into a school.

2011-06-06
Report By:Guest
Fishing Rating: 1
Water Temperature:

caught a largemouth on buzzbait today right before front moved in .... cmon topwater .....

2011-05-21
Report By:Guest
Fishing Rating: 5
Water Temperature: 68

I CAUGHT A BIG CATFISH ON OLD HICKORY LAKE ,I USED SHRIMP

2011-05-18
Report By:Guest
Fishing Rating: 3
Water Temperature: 64

Fished below dam on rayon city side and pulled in two 3.5 pound smallmouth bass and a few large and stripe.....smallmouth caught on green roadrunner and also on a white worm

2011-04-02
Report By:Guest
Fishing Rating: 1
Water Temperature:

caught 3.25 lb lm on a fire tiger in about 3 ft of water

2011-03-21
Report By:Guest
Fishing Rating: 3
Water Temperature: 52

Panfish bite steady today. Fishing in shallow flats.

2010-10-11
Report By:Guest
Fishing Rating: 5
Water Temperature: 75

THE BASS ARE GOOD IN WARM WATER. I GOT A 50 LAB BASS AND IT WAS 2 FT. LONG!

2010-07-08
Report By:Guest
Fishing Rating: 2
Water Temperature: 83

"caught about 7 early before 8 a.m. mostly small.a couple on topwater,and a solid keeper 3 lb. on a shallow running crankbait"

2010-07-08
Report By:Guest
Fishing Rating: 3
Water Temperature:

"6/12/10 about 4:00 am till 8:30 am-Caught five small (12-13"") bass on plastics on secondary points just off river channel. 6-8 feet of water. Fish appera to be moving out to river channel into summer patern. Looking forward to them getting schoolde up out on the river drops. That's whi I catch the most/largest fosh of the year most consistently."

2010-06-13
Report By:Guest
Fishing Rating: 1
Water Temperature:

"Fished late afternoon 5/27/10 w/ three of us using plastic worm. Green pumpkin, and red shad. Fished about 1 1/2hrs in cove fishing weed beds. Caught 5 bass. 4 green pumpkin, 1 red shad. Missed several due to mechanical error."

2010-05-28
Report By:Guest
Fishing Rating: 3
Water Temperature:

fished old hickory after the flood May 11th. Caught several male bass on plastics.

2010-05-28
Report By:Guest
Fishing Rating: 1
Water Temperature:

"fished old hickory 6hrs today. boated ten fish, three keepers on plastic, topwater & one on crankbait. rained all day!"

2010-05-28
Report By:Guest
Fishing Rating: 1
Water Temperature:

"Caught 14 channel cats and 2 blues all with a 4 pound average with the biggest being a 13 pound channel cat, caught deep from 20 feet to 60 feet on channel ledges."

2010-03-19
Report By:Guest
Fishing Rating: 1
Water Temperature: 49

went out yesterday using large minnows and caught over 80 yellow bass most right at 1lbs 3 around 1 1/2 lbs but it was a fun day

2010-03-19
Report By:Guest
Fishing Rating: 5
Water Temperature: 49

went out again today and caught a nother 50 good yellow bass . gona give it a nother try tomorrow 3rd day in a row maybe ill hit a big one

2010-03-09
Report By:Guest
Fishing Rating: 1
Water Temperature:

went out 3 hour trip had worked jigs in morning an crankbait after about noon cought a few nice fish one around 4lb

2010-03-06
Report By:Guest
Fishing Rating: 1
Water Temperature:

Went out for fie hours today spinners all colors. Jigs all colors nothing 2 bites

2009-09-14
Report By:Charlie8584
Fishing Rating: 4
Water Temperature: 84

"6/20/09, 3: 30 AM to 8:30 pm. Three measuring fish and numerous shorts on texas worm on one spot just off creek channel in 8-10 feet of water on wood. HOT weather. Fish seem to be schooling up on wood near channels in 7-15 feet of water. Typical summer fishing."

2009-09-14
Report By:charlie8584
Fishing Rating: 4
Water Temperature: 85

9:30 PM to 6:00 AM. Great night. Fairly cool and little wind. Caught 20-25 fish. Three measuring fish including 1 @ 2-12. Worms and spinned baits. Didi not bite well after 3:00. Caught in 6-10 feet of water. best bight 10:00-12:00 in Cedar Creek. Several in Town Creek later.

2009-09-14
Report By:charlie8584
Fishing Rating: 4
Water Temperature: 82

"7/10/09- 9:00pm - 1:00 am 10-15 10-14"" LM on texas rigged worms on main channel drop (caught all on one spot). Current across wood on drops is aparently the key to sucess. Nothing big but that did stretch my line! Good Luck."

2009-09-14
Report By:charlie8584
Fishing Rating: 4
Water Temperature: 83

"6/29/09 9:00 pm to 12:00 am. 6-10 LM (largest 15"") on texas rigged worm on main channel drops. Current and wood are keys to bite."

2009-09-14
Report By:charlie8584
Fishing Rating: 2
Water Temperature: 80

7/18/09 8:00 pm to 12:30 am... the cold front put them off.Could not find cooperative fish. No bites after 10:00. Few before. Lost a big fish at the boat. Saw lots of fish on the finder but they would not bite!

2009-09-14
Report By:Charlie8584
Fishing Rating: 4
Water Temperature: 80

"7/21/08 4:30-8:30 PM 15 fish on texas worms on drops off channel. Only one measuring fish at 14"". Rest werer 10-12"" including one 13"" spott. If you can find the concentrated fish, you can catch them."

2009-09-14
Report By:charlie8584
Fishing Rating: 1
Water Temperature: 80

"8/1/09 7:00 pm to 11:30 pm Only caught for small bass on plastics and spinner baits. Not many bites on river channel, creek channel, or backs of creeks. I guess the front that came through while we were fishing put the fish off their paterns. I had been getting them on main river drops in current on soft plastice. Not tonight! Perhaps Monday night?"

2009-09-14
Report By:charlie8584
Fishing Rating: 1
Water Temperature:

2009-09-14
Report By:charlie8584
Fishing Rating: 4
Water Temperature: 80

"8/3/09 4:30 to 8:00 PM Caught five fish. Two 12-13"", 2-15"" and one 3.5 lb on drop shot 4"" worm om 12-15 ledges on main river channel. thebig fish are biting when you keep it in the ""zone"" long enough."

2009-09-14
Report By:charlie8584
Fishing Rating: 3
Water Temperature: 86

"8/13/09 4:00 to 7:30 PM. HOT WATER!Cusght 12-12 10-12"" LM on drop shot usual places (drops on main river channel). Where have the bigger fish gone? Guess the HOIT water has pushed them deeper. Perhaps later evening fishing will be the ticket. we will see (Friday night?). Hope the NE wind on Friday does not further compound the problem."

2009-09-14
Report By:charlie8584
Fishing Rating: 3
Water Temperature: 86

"8/14/09 7:00-9:00 PM three small(10-12"")fish on texas rigged worm before rain storm ran us off the lake. Caught on drops next to main river channel.beware Cedar Creek Dock on Firday and Saturdy evenings due to drunks at dock listening to free band!"

Old Hickory Lake Solar and Lunar Conditions

Current Lunar Fishing Tip:
The affects of the moon on freshwater fish and game are at a minimum right now. There will be another full moon coming up here in a few days. The fisherman should never use this as an excuse to not get on the water. The affects of the moon can only enhance the outcome of a day's fishing not decrease potential catch for today. On days without the new or full moon, all other factors including weather, barometric pressure, wind and cloud cover will make up today's equation for success.

Sunrise:
05:38 CST

Moon Phase:

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Days to Full

Sunset:
19:46 CST

Old Hickory Lake Links

State Department of Wildlife and Parks
http://www.state.tn.us/twra

State Fishing Licensee
http://www.wildlifelicense.com/tn

State Parks
http://www.state.tn.us/environment/parks...

State Fishing Records
http://www.state.tn.us/twra/fish/FishRec...

State Fishing Information
http://www.state.tn.us/twra/06fishgd_web...