TnRiver46

Luckily we don’t have any of them here. Although they did teach us common weasel and lesser weasel in mammals class in college and claim they live here. I’ve set traps 40 hours a week for over a decade since then and never caught one, never seen a roadkill, and never known another soul that saw one dead or alive in East TN. Now mink, we have in decent numbers . My buddy caught one raiding his trout hatchery not too long ago

Wow. Water is not to be fooled with. They built all the TVA dams in the 30s and 40s, it’s a miracle one of them hasn’t collapsed. Then again this region really didn’t have electricity or many people before the dams and was always flooded. Double edged sword I guess. They said Knoxville was a ghost town until the late 1800s when a steamboat captain from Cincinnati figured out how to get his vessel upsteam through muscle shoals in north Alabama. His method was power up as far as possible, then tie ropes to trees and drag up through the shoals. Once boats were able to bring supplies the town boomed

I like em! As a youngster I liked any flavor, nowadays I like yellow ones. Pilsners, lagers, and occasionally an IPA. Those dark beers just aren’t as appealing as they used to be. Well that and I’m getting old! But you can bet if there’s a sporting event to attend I’ll find a bottle of suds and enjoy

Oh dear. I don’t even know where to start asking questions on that one! They did actually make a law in at least one county in the smoky mountains forbidding building houses on mountain tops. When you get near Gatlinburg a lot of the pretty mountains have hundreds of cabins on top. The locals finally had enough in one county and somehow got the law passed. Pretty impressive as most often developers in this area can get any law changed to do whatever they want wherever they want (money talks). They just changed a decades old zoning law to bulldoze a forest and build a subdivision right behind our shop at work

Rule #1 of home building: might not want to build next to a freestone river located in a rain forest

Then nobody blocks and he's broken

Must have been a morning bite today, the leaderboard didn't change much after lunch (I didn't watch anything tho just going by the chart)

Holy goodness never seen that. Is there a piece of something blocking the view of the transducer?

so the question is , where are they going to be chomping tomorrow? Hahaha

It's certainly possible. The river went way down today but he took that picture midday, not sure when it crested. I'm sure the builder said " I've never seen the water this high." I think it was higher last year, when the wind blows from the gulf we always get it good . If it wasn't for the TVA highland storage reservoirs the cities would have to be moved back away from the water haha. All the oldest high dollar real estate in chattanooga is up on a high cliff, kind of like Memphis but way steeper .

Amen. Driving a boat in waves has never been fun for me . I went to the ocean they call Pickwick once........ I lived but two guys didn't

I'm rooting for Dustin connell

When they first came out it was 80-100 lb braid. Now people seem to use 15-20 lb floro

My boss took this picture yesterday and said he could hear popping and cracking

@NorcalBassin, customers ask me all the time what product “repels” wildlife. Now I could sell these people literally anything and they would buy it up by the truckload but it wouldn’t help, the real answer is nothing. They always try mothballs, hot peppers, music, lights, it’s prettt funny. I typically recommend that having a barking dog outside is their best bet. They usually have bird feeders and pet food outside and can’t figure it out why they have critters! The only animals we can seem to scare away are birds like woodpeckers and geese with visual deterrents and behavior modification. Unfortunately if a predator sees a bunch of chickens, they are going to try to get them regardless Brad, are the seramas hard to find? I’ve never heard of them.

We’ve caught a few skunks around coops recently but then again there’s skunks everywhere around here. Rats And raccoons are usually what we catch at the urban coops. I think you can legally have 4 or 6 chickens in the city limits here but no rooster . People always find a decapitated chicken and assume it’s a mink or weasel but here it’s always a raccoon doing that.

Just checked the TVA site, currently in the neighborhood of 250,000 cfs rolling through guntersville. In other words it’s ripping

No matter how old I get, it’s always awesome seeing those guys out on the water

I forgot zaldain was in it! He almost won last time he was on guntersville

That dog will still hunt!!!

I can’t go down more than 8 feet or my skull wants to explode

That’s pretty impressive for Michigan! Seems awful wet up there

Chicken coops keep me in business (I’m a trapper ) . I’m not trapping a Rottweiler though!!! Ever had any trouble with wildlife?

I’m down! Do you fish watauga lake? Might be dodgy in a yak but it’s full of monsters

I was going to say that too, stripers and wipers gobble up cut bait like candy. I also saw a cat fisherman with a huge smallmouth he had caught with cut bait