Fishing Report For Boone Lake, TN

By Rick Seaman

April 30, 2025

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Fishing Report Boone Lake, TN

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Popular Fish Species Boone Lake, TN

Largemouth Bass

Current Report: Good
Outlook: Good To Very Good

There is a good population of bass here. Although largemouth are the primary targets, spotted and smallmouth bass also reside in Boone Lake. Locals report a wide variety of lures are catching decent largemouth bass here. These bass feed on threadfin and gizzard shad, as well as sunfish and crawfish. Texas-style worms are a standard here, with stick worms catching them when the bass are being finicky. Crankbaits, spinnerbaits and topwater are also getting lots of bites.

Striped Bass

Current Report: Good
Outlook: Good To Very Good

Thanks to a 36-inch minimum length limit on striped bass and a 15-inch minimum length limit on hybrid stripers, the population of both are thriving here. Being successful at fishing for stripers is a matter of locating schools of bait, and wolf packs of stripers. Fish finders are a big help. Swimbaits, umbrella rigs, jerkbaits, crankbaits, spoons, live bait and cut bait are all effective here. The majority of the fish are being caught at around 40' over deeper water.

Blue Catfish

Current Report: Good To Very Good
Outlook: Good To Very Good

The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency reports a limit of only one catfish over 34 inches may be harvested per day. This has improved the blue catfish fishery which was established over three decades ago. Anglers are catching a lot of these big cats, especially in the upper reaches of the South Fork Holston River and the Watauga River. Fishing for blue catfish is often productive around any kind of structure, especially when water is flowing. Road beds, creek channels and rocky points are all good places to begin. Use a slip sinker or Carolina rig setup with most any bait.

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Fish species to fish for...

Guide to fishing for largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, spotted bass, blue catfish, black crappie, white crappie, rainbow trout, brown trout, bluegill, redear sunfish, rock bass, white bass, striped bass and hybrid striped bass at Boone Lake in Tennessee.

Boone Lake is a 4,500-acre lake with over 160 miles of shoreline. It offers excellent bass and striped bass fishing, plus catfish, crappie, hybrid stripers and sunfish which are all abundant here. The TWRA also stocks the lake with rainbow and brown trout. There very limited areas to fish from the bank, boats are ideal here..

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Rick Seaman is a fishing enthusiast with over five decades of fishing experience, a retired tournament fisherman, author of numerous published articles on fishing, and co-author of the book "Bass Fishing - It's not WHAT you throw, It's WHERE you throw it".