Tellico Lake Fishing in Monroe County, Tennessee

• Overview

  You will find Tellico Lake in Monroe County, Tennessee. The bank is 1,017 feet above sea level. For a base, Englewood sits 12 miles out. Madisonville is 13 miles and Etowah 13 miles. Not far off: Elbert Martin Lake 1.8 miles away, 2.8 miles out stands Shortfoots Pond, Sanford Gray Lake Number One 6.1 miles away, 6.6 miles out stands Unicoi Lake and Yeller Nugget Lake 6.8 miles away. It sits well inside the county, so one set of rules covers it.

• Where to Fish on Tellico Lake

  Without a survey to go on, judge depth from how the bank falls away. Rip-rap along the wall holds fish that the open bank never does. The old creek line under the surface is the feature worth finding. Open biodiversity records for Monroe County list brown trout, redline darter, snubnose darter and greenside darter. What holds for the county may not hold for this water. Tellico Lake responds to conditions more than to tactics.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Expect July near 76°F and January near 38°F on the long-run figures. It fishes twelve months of the year. The cooler months are the comfortable ones to be out. Spring and autumn carry the year; summer squeezes it into the ends of the day. That shapes the year on Tellico Lake. Cool nights slow the mornings but sharpen the evenings.

• Tackle & Baits

  Our records carry no access rule either way. Nothing is listed nearby for parking or launching a boat. For the bass here, soft plastics worked slow along cover and a spinnerbait for searching do most of the work. Sort the permit out before you load the car. Where parking is tight, arriving early solves most problems. Should this one be busy, Elbert Martin Lake is 1.8 miles off. Treat Tellico Lake as unsettled until someone local tells you otherwise.