TnRiver46

I was told there would be no math

Not quite, haha. new life jacket? Black lights/fluorescent line for night fishing? Kayak cart if you don’t already? Could always use more tackle

Hopefully tpwd uses it wisely, it’s a little swampy out this way

And in the next breath, ask for donations to fight the fight against exotic species

the disaster in that picture was in Kingston at a warm water discharge? not a Nuke but there are nukes downstream browns ferry was the main offender it seems for hot water. They kept getting in trouble for putting out 90+ degree water

Almost everyone I know including myself has had that recently. Takes a while to run it’s course

It was that sludge you’re hauling. Coal fly ash. Apparently there’s a good bit of arsenic in it, killed all manner of fish and turtles and somehow moved houses

They already have electric outboards, I just don’t want one haha. My electric trolling motor already crapped the bed and I don’t have the cash to replace it . Probably had a dozen electric trolling motors and they all quit eventually I’ve owned many gas outboards, they never quit working. 1957 Johnson sea horse 7.5 still runs guess what? Water and electricity don’t mix

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When cooling ponds go wrong…….. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston_Fossil_Plant_coal_fly_ash_slurry_spill

Ah yes I’ve heard of the Gallatin steam plant. Didn’t know it was TVA though, I thought everything was army corps out there

Tva no longer does hot water discharge. They used to, but had a few ecological disasters. They were great fishing from what I was told but one of their disasters ruined a stretch of river for a while so I guess it’s a trade off

Cousins did not like that

I did learn from last time, don’t break up a dog fight with your hands . All that did was tag me into the Royal rumble

My silly dogs all started fighting the other day and weren’t listening to the “stop” command hhaha

Spoon, fluke, bucktail

I’m just 1 year in, will report back in 3 decades

Lee may be young, but he won a bassmaster classic without an outboard engine on Conroe. Just a jig

I think it got a little better in 2022 , a couple bags hit 20 lbs I think. But it was April. A decade ago you would see several bags over 30 in April and maybe a few over 40

Lee livesay won on chick in 2021 I think with bout 14-15 lbs a day? Something like that . It’s my least favorite place to fish by a landslide. Heavily pressured is quite the understatement

Love Weiss

Gotcha. Chickamauga ain’t so good (anymore) but other places nearby can be I was on a local forum and they graded chickamauga, locals gave it mostly D and F with the highest grade I saw being C-

ACL torn We know Dwight……. And the seasons not over yet. Vandy has won 2 conference games in a row after losing 26 straight haha Tennessee is however undefeated against Ohio state…….

You could just live there on the border and kill two birds with one stone! I would imagine the fishing is better in GA but maybe not the north part of GA. Chattanooga is a pretty cool town, lot of good concerts. Whitewater paddling seems quite popular in N GA, there must be a good many spots to do it. I don’t know a whole lot about the hunting, definitely not a waterfowl paradise but people shoot some. The serious duck hunters head west to the Mississippi

You can go a week without a bite there now