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Gonna need both Flexseal and probably some Flexseal Tape.

That’s pretty country and good fishing too!

He’s right^. The area I was thinking of is the extreme upper end of Tellico on the Little T, below Chilhowee dam.

Maybe you’d think about the upper end of Melton Hill in TN too - close enough to Knoxville, about as diverse a fishery as you’ll find from Norris dam to the bottom (muskies anyone?), and beautiful country. Should be a little cheaper too, but this is a rocket market.

I concur with the above - when a viognier is great it’s really great but there’s a lot out there that literally taste like pee. Not that I drink that.

I would third/fourth the NZ Sauvignon Blanca listed above. They are the light beer of wines. Also - a good Cali Chardonnay that is aged in steel rather than oak would really fit the bill with pork.

That’s a small crappie

Would small bungees be easier? That also works. Coat hanger is free and easy to bend to the right shape.

I always had better luck catching larger chubs and shiners with a tiny hook and a bit of worm. It really weeds out the smaller ones. Also, any good current break with some depth should have them. But to answer the original question, yes.

What would I have to do for a recipe? That looks amazing

I had a good friend and coworker pass away yesterday from Covid. He was 52 with a daughter in high school and a son /daughter in law that had just given him his first grandson. Vaccine just came too late for him.

For what it’s worth- I wasn’t talking about interns or seasonal work. You get a person or two interested in the hospitality field to come from a hospitality program - people that want to do the job and generally have few strings attached of family or whatnot and give them a great start in a boutique property. You get one or two high school students that want to work and they will usually bring a couple more that they want to work with. Good money and great resume builder for them. A couple good hires usually leads to more, especially if you can hire from good pools.

Having worked in high end hospitality in a very rural environment, and now in a gov job, I guess I can toss out a suggestion- If you have a local community college or high school, go to their career day or talk to their guidance counselor or the like about looking for people. You’d be surprised by how motivated people are by giving them their first job and a chance at success. For more skilled and/or management positions, if it’s possible, you may consider recruiting from outside the area and letting them live on-property or give them a stipend until they can find housing. A ground-up opportunity would be a huge opportunity from a new grad of Johnson and Wales or really any major college hospitality program. You should have a pretty good-sized pool of people to choose from right now with the hit the hospitality industry has taken over the past year.

If nothing else there’s a great little lily pad covered lake up in Blackwater Falls Park that I’ve fished a bit. Fun bass lake and should be great from a yak. We did our summer vacations in Davis when we lived in DC.

I have an office full of people that have had both shots from Pfizer. No serious symptoms but a lot of sore shoulders and some tiredness 12-24 hrs after the shot.

Depending on how rural you want to be, I might look for a place on Tellico or Chilhowee in TN, but Chatuge is really really nice, just really rural.

Is that a porcupine!?!?

What he said^

If you have enough people to feed you cant beat them. A lot of space and more thick hot metal than you can get indoors. They take up a ton of space though, and are a limited-trick pony. I use a two-burner cast iron griddle for most of what I wood do on one.

State Farm for me for boat and trailer. $7/month. Gear is covered under my homeowners policy.

Are you talking about a propane powered outdoor flat-top?

I had both shots by mid-Feb. Sore shoulder after both but nothing crazy. Good to see that the volume is creeping up.

Elijag Craig, and Elijah Craig Rye. Super solid

@roadwarrior How's Memphis handling that 5 - 8 " snow and ice prediction? Full Hunger Games?

After losing many, many knives day to day and fishing, i have a Kershaw 3700 that I have been carrying all the time for a few years now. Big enough to be usefull, small enough to clip in my front pocket in everything from suits to swimsuits. I keep it sharp and it sees service making lunch, opeining boxes, cutting plastic, cutting bait, etc etc.