TnRiver46

Got out on the lake for a few hours today, hot and sunny. We caught a good many largemouth and spots and a few little smallies. Then my buddy got a small walleye back in a pocket. We were going kind of fast between pockets and I saw a 1 lb class bass with the zoomies, chasing shad on top 100 mph. I casted a Berkeley Frittside over toward the mayhem and got a larger fish, pulling drag off a baitcaster. As it comes boatside, I see it’s a nice smallie and there’s another one chasing it . My buddy drops a rattle trap in behind my fish while I’m trying to boat it, this works for us about 0.00001% of the time (trying to catch the follower). He doesn’t hook up and begins to lift his trap into the boat and an even nicer smallie slams it right next to my face as I’m lipping my fish! Wild ride. Water temp 74

Brown and swole in Rockford today

Powroznik with a 20 lb bag

At least you caught a few dozen fish soggy Bob!!! Differing volumes of flow will sure move those dam fish around . Drum and white bass are always there for us when we need them

Great photos Bob. If you could see bass eggs in there, you’ve got better eyes than me. They lay tiny eggs, way smaller than the salmon ones you put on a hook. I think a bass lays like 30,000-40,000 of them

I’m sure they migrate some but there are more dams than just Perry’s mill, I think they live in the entire river all year, just eat more when it’s hotter in all the freestone streams around here. People catch nice fish from April-September up around walland and above. I’ve only used River Jon’s a few times when we had a big group float and somebody else was paying haha. there is a movement to take out the dam at Perry’s mill and also the one at Rockford manufacturing. It’s been in the works for years but rumor has it, it’s gaining strength. Those mill dams don’t serve any purpose except drowning people and preventing fish migration nowadays.

They are not…… which is why all 102 anglers had a limit haha

So cool to see Howell back on the elite series

I’ve started and ended at 4 corners many times, not sure if it’s a legal launch or not…. Haha. And it’s solid poison ivy on a cliff, not an easy carry/drag for canoes and kayaks. I would say it’s definitely worth fishing where you mentioned in walland as well, I’d be shocked if they weren’t starting to chew. There’s a good gauge for river height, volume, and temp that I check daily https://waterdata.usgs.gov/monitoring-location/03497300/#dataTypeId=continuous-00065-0&period=P7D Have we talked about river Jon’s before ?

Nice fish and thanks for taking a vet! @LrgmouthShad has been know to kick around that lake

Awesome! Glad yall got out, that’s what bass resource is all about!!!

I was going to say you’re backing the trailer too far into the water but it appears others have already pointed that out

I saw 75 on the Holston river last night also. It all depends on dam discharges here, that same stretch of Holston will be in the mid 50s (water temp) in August when it’s super hot outside, makes a crazy fog that time of year

Lowen is having a helluva year

Cook with a master class in bed fishing this morning. walters has a big one hooked up

Yeah man anytime . I’m surprised you ever get to fish working there 😂

@fishballer06, you deserve a good tourney for running the fantasy contest for everyone !

How awesome is this lake??!! Arguably it and guntersville are the two most pressured, livescoped, delayed mortality lakes in America and both infested with invasive Alabama bass. Yet they are two of the best in the country. Funny how that works!! nice duel between JP and J Lee at the top