TnRiver46

We call those motors the tower of power, used to see bullet boats scream by like a meteor with those on the back .

The best thing about winter: ticks and mosquitos go back to hell where they came from

My condolences

There are crawfish in there! If you want to see them in person, go down there after dark and put some little pieces of chicken in the water somewhere there Is cover and shine a light into the water. I learned that trick while camping and washing dishes with a headlamp on

One of my favs

We are supposed to get some snow/sleet next weekend

I know lots of folks that have gotten that

Well well well!

Each lake is on a slightly different schedule, click on operating guide at TVa.com for each individual lake’s line graph. Here’s the current one for Cherokee, which lake are you wondering about?

Negative but I’ve jumped them while fishing in Alabama swamps. Big jokers! Yours almost looks like a capybara from tv hahaa

Nice catch sir

Nutria? Careful @Catt will have that thing skint and cooked in the blink of an eye

Yep. Not lots of them but they are present and still delicious. Watauga has some monster walleyes up to 10 lbs, probably more. watauga has lots of big black bass, all 3 species. It also has lake trout, rainbow trout, and brown trout. Maybe even some brook trout, definitely brookies in some of the streams that flow into the lake. It’s got catfish, walleye, rock bass, crappie, bluegill, alewives, threadfin, probably a few other species I’m forgetting. Watauga is also in a very cold climate, my buddy that lived on it referred to it as little Alaska. I mean, it’s not North Dakota but it’s really stinking cold up there. The most important thing to watch up there would be WIND. We were young and dumb and used to fish it from a 14 foot flat bottom in subfreezing temps, luckily to have not drowned. There’s a place you can buy live trout and catch big smallmouth with them, if you’re into that sort of thing (highly recommend). boone is pretty crazy! I’ve never fished it myself but I know a good bit about it. The dam was leaking, it was 30 feet or more below normal for several years. I think they just got it back to normal levels about 2 years ago, something like that. You don’t hear much about walleye there (not sure why), but it’s got big stripers and hybrids. It also has some of the biggest brown trout I’ve ever seen. People that fish live shad for striper always seem to catch a huge brown trout. It’s got largemouth and smallmouth, not sure if I ever remember hearing of a spotted bass in Boone but surely they are in there. Definitely has Crappie, catfish, bluegill, etc. Boone is much more crowded boat wise than watauga, the summer can be a zoo with party boats. I’ve seen pictures of a Red Bull float plane landing on it. There’s some whitewater rapids up the watauga river arm of it also, just a technicality, everyone just calls it east TN instead of eastern TN. They call tri cities upper east TN. Tons of cool history up there, my direct ancestors lived in the area before TN was a state. One of which signed the watauga treaty if you remember that from history class

Just scroll on up to where everyone thought it was on its last breath a month ago

I’ve had a bullseye around a bite once, maybe I have Lyme disease? I feel great, it was years ago. They bite me all the time doctors don’t seem to know much about Lyme. I went to college with a girl that got it, doctors told her over and over again that she didn’t have it and that Lyme didn’t exist in TN. They were wrong on both accounts

Im at dale hollow right now but theres one not too far from my house, maybe 10 miles or so. I don’t think it’s too serious because it’s close to my buddies house and he killed a turkey today

Day 2 on the dale. Slow fishing but no skunks. Luckily we had some taters and onions to go with the 2 bass we were able to keep, a 16” largemouth and a little spot

I didn’t mind it! Got 3 this morning, 17” smallie and two largemouth 16” and 14.999999” (keeper is 15”). Going back out shortly

Whoopdie doo, it also snows every March in TN . Bass get bigger where it’s warmer

I didn’t get a trout stamp last year or this year, I can’t stand the silly things. I’m still allowed to fish for them in the national park without the stamp, so I can legally catch them somewhere if the wife insists

Very exciting

Sharps chapel ain’t near nothing ………. I’ve had to work some at Deerfield, they do sell a fine homemade pie up there somewheres near 33

People worry, and the bass thrive. Happens everywhere

That happens because the profit margins on the modified spinning reel and $20 rod aren’t big enough to satisfy the companies I don’t even use TRD because I refuse to pay more for half a worm

First ever time seeing dale hollow, wow. Beautiful lake, tons of loons. We fished from 2:30 til dark, almost got a 3 person skunk. Luckily ran into some fish on the way back to the marina/cabin, one of which was 4 lb and 19.5” Dale yeah!