TnRiver46

I’ll play the role of smarty pants: pre spawn and post spawn both technically start when they are done spawning……… unless of course they take a year off, which does happen

I don’t follow BPT except on here and it seems as though it’s wheeler and Jordan lee’s world and the rest are just living in it

Sorry we are all closed, Californians have maxed out our carrying capacity in the last year …… hahaha

We are only a 2 person household, we don’t need a big freezer. Just got the one below the fridge, and it still gets stuff junked up and freezer burned . I can walk to two different grocery stores so no need for me to freeze a bunch of stuff

I wish I could say I took it, I just googled Fontana dam

Yeah small soft plastics are only for crappie and bream, somebody keeps telling me that in every thread

If I had a large family, I would feed them fish

Bingo! Never leave home without your “mountain money” as we call it

I used to do ok with the floating rattle trap. Haven’t seen one in ages

yes I’ve fished upstream of Dayton all but two times when I’ve been on chickamauga. There’s some cypress and stuff around the Armstrong ferry area. Cotton port marina is a good place to launch. Fishing up at watts bar dam is my favorite but all the mouths of the sloughs and the grass edges between Dayton and watts bar are also really good. There’s not a whole lot of “offshore” type stuff as the river is narrow but there is still a channel edge all the way.

I heard he’s pretty good at bass fishing…… poor mark Daniels haha

Yeah I was thinking of the shallow weedy stuff in the Midwest. Those NY lakes have to stay cold at the bottom to keep the Loch Ness style monsters happy and in the darkness of 400 feet! we have one lake that’s 440 feet, it’s across the NC border but up in the smokies, Fontana lake. Big trout love the cold water below the dam.

I can’t think of any places they don’t hang out. Catching them far trickier than locating them

I’m not 100% sure it goes to Toledo, maybe they get picked up in Cleveland. I just know Toledo is the only large city anywhere near my in-laws homeplace You and I might be related hahahaha

One of my wife’s cousins lives Syracuse, NY. They ride a train to Toledo and someone picks them up at the station. I didn’t know that was still a thing!! when I said north I should’ve said mid west, I was imagining those small round lakes full of lily pads

I have great luck with hand pour stick baits, don’t know why . They float without a hook, no salt I’m fairly sure

This gets stuck in my head every time I see this thread

Marabou is from a chicken, and they ain’t got no hair! Haha

I’ve been hearing about some catalytic converters getting jacked at the ramps, beware. i even searched the Chattanooga forum for ya, got nothing. Those words are so general they confuse a search function, you might be hunting a menderchuck. I would just fish a bunch of sloughs and hope for the best

Punisher brand are the most popular ones you can purchase it is remarkably easy to make your own

Wise words my friend!!!

What makes life easier? Less stuff

Haha! There’s only 12 million people in south FLA ………

No clue, I checked all the named sloughs on navionics and my iPhone maps, nothing by any of those names. He probably made them up since he knew it would be published hahaha. But there are lots of sloughs that had no name

Hmmmm. Not sure I’ve heard that term but I can check around. Upstream of the hiwassee mouth it’s pretty much a wide river with a bunch of massive “sloughs”. Some of them you can barely get your boat through where they meet the river, then they open up into a huge pond looking thing and are usually choked out with cheese, but the cheese won’t be topped out in may. If the flood gates happen to be open at watts bar dam, just fish up that way and hang on. In the last two years the number of spotted bass people catch seems to have exploded disclaimer: I’m not good at fishing chickamauga, it’s about 2 hours from me