TnRiver46

I bet they wish they had manning back! Even when he was old and could barely throw he was better than Wilson haha

All I have to do with my truck is park on an incline, which is easy in east TN because there is no flat ground. Stick shift for the win

I just saw a hilarious CPAP commercial about this I think I’m probably the annoying sleeper at our house haha. I’m usually burning up hot sweating and totally dead to the world. She says “why are you sweating so much?” I say “why do you crank up the thermostat on the way to bed every night?” Haha. I’d rather it be a tad cold

My wife’s aunt/uncle live in Illinois and have a small home in Michigan. I wouldn’t imagine they have ever fished so their place is further south in sawyer. Their only complaint is all the sand that they track into the house haha

Pop the cowl and give it a whirl! (Maybe stretch first)

You must be kin to the mountain man Jim Bridger

@Woody B, Mother Earth is almost always warmer than anything laying on her. There’s a guy that scuba dives and has an underwater drone to find lost things and posts his videos on YouTube from chickamauga and surrounding area. When he goes into the water in the winter, almost all the fish are sitting on the bottom. Like right on the bottom. They kick up dirt clouds when he gets near them we also have many different lakes and the temps vary wildly. Each individual one has its own reasons. Typically our higher elevation mountain lakes stay warmer than fort loudoun, with the possible exception of Douglas. Take a look at the French broad river watershed vs the Holston watershed. The only dam on the French broad is Douglas. Holston has many dams: soho, watauga, Wilbur, Boone, fort Patrick Henry and Cherokee dam. All of those dams slow the water down and make it deeper. The Holston is always warmer than the French broad where they meet near my house in the winter. It’s because water coming from below a deep dam is warmer than surface runoff during cold weather. It’s stable. I’ve seen Douglas freeze over and people riding 4 wheelers on it. The little Tennessee river is similar to Holston. It has fontana dam, santeelah, cheoah, calderwood, chilhowee, and tellico dams. Therefore it’s typically warmer in winter than the main stem TN river because it’s slower and deeper, where the cold can zap the heat right out of shallow swifter waters. Chilhowee is one of my favorite winter lakes because it’s water is coming from the bottom of fontana lake (via cheoah and calderwood but they are tiny) which is 400 feet deep. The cold air doesn’t have time to chill that water, it stays darn near 50-55 year round coming out of calderwood dam at its top end. What is also about 50-55 year round? GROUND TEMP/CAVES!!! one would think fort loudoun lake would be the warmest as it’s the lowest elevation and closest to the warmer city, but it’s the opposite during cold air periods now all that I just wrote will darn near be the opposite when it warms up in the spring time. All that stable slower moving water will take longer to warm up than surface runoff when the air warms.

At least it worked! I swear as kids we swam the family pontoon boat a hundred miles with ropes tied to our feet when it wouldn’t start. And that was often! (It wasn’t ever the battery but still….. haha)

I can introduce you to some trout that are beyond shy. They swim away Mach 3 when they see line and lure flying thru the air before it even hits the water

My dogs haven’t killed any of those….. that I know of my wife used to have a cat or two when we first met, they and the dogs slapped each other around but never fought in earnest. A wild dog (coyote) did kill the cat that was always wondering off

The trend I’m noticing here: @AlabamaSpothunteris way behind us……….. just kidding, I think most of us would love to fish your home lake that’s full of shad that reminds me, how do have so many shad in there? Does your neighborhood dump them in?

The answer to your question will depend heavily on which part of March. The first part can be quite snowy around the mid south, the later part will be right in your wheel house

He said he wants pre spawn in march, not tomorrow

I forgot to mention the lake, it’s tellico. Not exactly epic fishing but I think palanuik came in 10th in the bassmaster classic fishing it (he ran like 70 miles each day from downtown Knoxville haha)

My boats have zero dry storage so I keep jumper cables. (And of course paddles) reading back thru this old post, one simple piece of advice for people worried about frying their electronics: unplug them before jumping. My boss harps on that like a broken record for the radios in our work trucks. Always unplug before jump starting

I’ve already got the spot, only problem is I will never be able to retire haha. Oh well I like fishing after work (and during work)

I’ll post you a link to a reading for comprehension website ……

Appalachian innovation (aka necessity is the mother of invention)

loop knot, smaller, the better

Those are legendary . My buddy has one that we started using when we turned 16, we still use it all the time and it works just the same with no leaks. We are now 38. I’ve paddled some pretty decent white water in those many many times

I just tie a knot around a bullet weight or egg sinker because I already have them on board for Texas and Carolina rig

Coldest year on record (when Christmas is on a Sunday and the eagles play on a Saturday ) they didn’t say anything about the area. In fact they didn’t even say blizzard, if you read my post they said natural disaster Kentucky said hold my beer twice in 2022. And earthquake tidal waves don’t count

Pretty funny how cats are called introduced and invasive. My dogs have killed birds (and moles and squirrels and mice and rats, probably several other things) they are domesticated but they came from The same exact spot we all came from

Yep. In this case it was trying to find a station in the middle of nowhere bait