TnRiver46

@JoePhish, how’d the tourney go?

This is what happens to me regularly. Several of these people even in the same boat with me, all over the country

Southern Alabama, had a gator hit a scum frog several times yesterday

We don’t have grass in the water at home

Annual fishing trip has begun, got a couple swimming a jig and missed a couple, also missed a loud hit on toad runner. Water temp is 89 in our campground, more in the mid 80s out on the main river. Shad fry are everywhere getting hit by tiny spotted bass, somehow couldn’t catch those. We have a pretty big group this year, I think 14 or so of us. Others brought in some nice fish and a friendly stranger gave me 3 bass and a crappie . The pic below made me think “we’re not in Tennessee anymore!” These are gallon bags, decent haul for day 1.

I would just give up now. I’m 30+ years in and I catch one dink per 10 years with them

I drove pretty slow yesterday on the way to Alabama, ran about 64-65 most of the time. That seemed to help with MPG trailering . I used to try to keep up with my buddies in a southbound convoy, but they like to push 80 and I can just see the fuel gauge needle moving when I do that

Fine looking hounds

A canoe! Although in so cal even a canoe might run ya 30 grand haha

Bo on the left (male, somewhere around 8 years old beagle/basset. although my wife says it’s “beau Henry”), mango in the middle (female, maybe 4 years old. Breed undetermined, got one blue eye) and cori on the right (10 year old half pyranese) I also found an old pic from 2016 when Bo didn’t have white hairs like his daddy

How were folks catching them on Cherokee?? I don’t go there as much as I should, it and Douglas just get crazy crowded. I live in a much bigger city but my home water are way less crowded than those lakes, never understood that haha. It’s like driving through Mayberry to get to the ramp, then it’s like Times Square once you’re in the water

You’re a machine!

That’s my favorite way to spend a day right there, I ❤️ canoeing

I don’t use any fertilizer or herbicide, just constant demolition . Native creatures such as moles and even the occasional exotic crackhead use it for habitat

The soothing sound of snipping stems on a spring Saturday (yes I had an extra large coffee today)

It’s always coming and going, TVA doesn’t kill it but they permit other companies to kill it. Watts bar has had some of the best grass on the river for a few years , I think I read something about them already fishing coon tail moss in that NPFL tournament

Yep!! That was etched in our brains as youngsters

the NPFL just held a tournament there, it finished up today. Patrick walters won it fishing a worm. September is typically some tough fishing, but it can vary. Should be good topwater fishing at daylight if nothing else. Also frogging in grass will be an option

They are upstream of Douglas on the French. I haven’t caught them but people get them somewhat regularly around Asheville NC. I’ve also seen pictures where people caught them in Douglas , but never below Douglas dam

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That’s cool! Lot of interesting history down there, I learned about Hale’s bar dam a few years ago, apparently it was a few miles upstream

Lack of rain, won’t make it to normal summer level this year Ironically Douglas and fort loudoun were spilling flood gates today, I guess that tells you which part of the state was getting the most precip

My dream is not having to travel haha. So just a regular trip

Those shad will be spawning like crazy in the rain !