Today's fishing report for Old Hickory Lake, Tennessee: live water temperature, pool level, and a bite score for today — refreshed every morning. Old Hickory Lake gets a fresh BassHawk guide report every day — areas, baits, and an hour-by-hour game plan.
How the bite score is built · Where Old Hickory Lake ranks in Tennessee today
largemouth bass · smallmouth bass · spotted bass · striped bass · white bass · yellow bass · white crappie · black crappie · sauger · walleye · channel catfish · flathead catfish · blue catfish · bluegill · redear sunfish · rock bass
Everything below points at one goal — finding the most, and the biggest, largemouth bass on Old Hickory Lake.
100 state-placed brush piles and habitat sites on Old Hickory Lake, marked on the map with the depth each sits in.
| TYPE | SITES | DEPTH |
|---|---|---|
| Artificial | 100 | 15–31 ft |
Exact coordinates for every site are in the app.
Traced from pre-dam survey sheets — the roads, foundations and creek beds that were there before the water. Creek channels marked USGS NHD come from the national stream map, not our tracing.
Today's bite outlook for Old Hickory Lake peaks at 97 out of 100 — prime. That score weighs water temperature, barometric pressure and its trend, wind, cloud cover, solunar windows and the pool trend against bass-behavior research. The hour it peaks, how the rest of the day scores, and the seven-day outlook with the best window flagged are in the BassHawk app.
Old Hickory Lake is reading about 67°F, from satellite imagery data as of Thursday, October 29, 2026. The trend is steady over 6 days — which is usually the number that matters more than the reading. BassHawk refreshes it every day.
Old Hickory Lake is 0.3 ft below normal pool. The trend is steady over 7 days. Falling water pulls bass off the flats and onto the first drop; rising water pushes them into flooded cover. The daily guide report factors the trend into where it sends you.
Largemouth on Old Hickory Lake spawn by water temperature, not the calendar: they stage around 50–58°F, move up between 58 and 62°F, and bed through roughly 62–70°F, with the north banks and pockets warming first. Old Hickory Lake is reading about 67°F today, and BassHawk tracks it daily with its two-week trend. The full temperature-by-phase table is in BassHawk's guide to bass spawning water temperature.
Old Hickory Lake has 4 public boat ramps mapped on BassHawk plus 5 marinas. The ramps are Boat Ramp, Davis Corner Boat Ramp, Laguardo Boat Ramp, Martha Gallatin Boat Ramp. Every trip plan starts from the ramp you pick and routes the day from there.
Yes — 100 state-placed brush piles and habitat sites on Old Hickory Lake, each one marked on the BassHawk map with the depth it sits in. The counts and depth bands are on this page; the exact coordinates are in the app.
largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, spotted bass, striped bass, white bass, yellow bass, white crappie, black crappie, sauger, walleye, channel catfish, flathead catfish, blue catfish, bluegill, redear sunfish, rock bass. BassHawk is built for largemouth bass specifically — every report, plan and layer is pointed at finding the most, and the biggest, largemouth in Old Hickory Lake.
Yes. Old Hickory Lake gets a fresh BassHawk guide report every day: a headline read on the lake, an hour-by-hour game plan, the areas to run with the depth and structure to look for, what to throw, and how to work it. Today's is in the app, free to start.
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