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Best white bass & hybrids lakes in Tennessee

11 Tennessee waters hold white bass & hybrids. Ranked below by size and depth-data quality — open any water to see exactly where to fish it: depth contours, scored spots with plain-English reasons, seasonal windows and bait picks. Hard-fighting schooling fish (white bass and hybrid stripers/wipers) that corral shad on flats and points.

1. Kentucky Lake — 75 ft max · Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Sauger, Crappie
2. Chickamauga Lake — 75 ft max · Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Crappie, Bluegill
3. Watts Bar Lake — 100 ft max · Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Crappie, Bluegill
4. Cherokee Lake — 160 ft max · Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Walleye, Crappie
5. Douglas Lake — 140 ft max · Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Walleye, Sauger
6. Old Hickory Lake — 60 ft max · Largemouth Bass, Sauger, Crappie, Bluegill
7. Fort Loudoun Lake — 75 ft max · Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Crappie, Bluegill
8. Center Hill Lake — 190 ft max · Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Walleye, Crappie
9. J. Percy Priest Lake — 100 ft max · Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Crappie, Bluegill
10. Boone Lake — 120 ft max · Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Crappie, Bluegill
11. Nickajack Lake — 55 ft max · Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Crappie, Bluegill

When to fish white bass & hybrids in Tennessee

• Spring 3–15 ft — The famous spring run: fish stack in creeks, rivers and inflows to spawn.
• Summer 10–30 ft — Follow surfacing schools over humps and flats; jigging spoons when they sound.
• Fall 8–25 ft — Aggressive fall schooling — when you find one, you've found a hundred.
• Winter 20–40 ft — Deep wintering schools on channel edges; vertical spoons.

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