TnRiver46

Mike Carter is another good one. Best time for giant bass was Dec and January before the flooding. Cold terrible weather is when most chickamauga Giants are caught. They can still be caught during your time frame, but winter is best

Fishing is still decent to very good here in the east. The water is crazy fast though

Thanks to FDR it is impossible. Well unless a dam breaks . Tva said that most lakes will be at summer pool by the end of this month, which on some lakes means plus 30 feet from their current levels . Tributary lakes are built only to store flood waters. For instance the two lakes above the Knoxville (Douglas and Cherokee) will hold back water when it starts raining heavily (seems backwards I know). They can rise several feet per day but it prevents flooding downstream. Historically Chattanooga flooded several times a year before TVA. We get almost as much rain as Seattle

There may some online national tournaments that allow a canoe to compete. I am also a canoe fisherman, I have an alumacraft. She's my baby........

I'm guessing @MN Fisher is like me and doesn't have any desire to fish tournaments. Sure I enjoy friendly competition among friends and bragging rights are pretty funny but all these rules just seem crazy. I enjoy BASS on TV but I fished a tournament myself once and it was just not for me (especially the ride with a stranger at 70 mph part). Kind of like baseball: I love to watch on TV and play pickup in the yard but I still can't make the big leagues or verbally explain the infield fly rule to my girlfriend. As far as the polygraph thing, I'm sure the tournament organizers are just trying to prevent cheating the best they can but I was unaware that polygraphs have been proven ineffective. You would think the next step would be to find a more reliable solution but I sure don't know of one

I would follow them around and get some pictures for y’all but my boat is very slow! Maybe pictures of them zooming by??? I’m cheering for deFoe but wouldn’t bet against j lee

Gerald swindle had a video somewhere where he said this rule was silly when BASS first came out with it. His reasoning was every single time he interacts with fans of the sport, they want to talk about skipping a jig on guntersville or fishing a jerkbait on Champlain, just depends on what city they are in. So now he has to just cut them off when they start talking fishing. If you take “talking fishing” out of the sport, that’s why people call it “silly.” Even top pros

http://rheareview.com/crews-search-for-missing-kayaker-in-polk-county/ Not sure what happened yet but they found his boat and life jacket. Wear the PFD until you get to the truck!

I have never fished for them but it seems we sampled some in college and snorkeled with them. I thought almost all the water in eastern Alabama was part of the coosa watershed, minus what flows Into the chattahoochee. Tallapoosa and coosa Rivers form the Alabama river so it’s all fairly interconnected. I think a whole lot of water in northwest Georgia is also part of the coosa watershed. The red eye bass species name is even “coosae.” Every drop of rain that falls in the state of Tennessee either goes into the TN river or Cumberland river (which both empty into the Ohio) or the Mississippi out on the western border. Therefore you could say all of Tennessee is part of the Ohio River watershed or the Mississippi watershed (which people do all the time). There are two exceptions : 1) the man made Tennessee tombigbee barge canal 2) a few streams in southeast Tennessee actually flow into the conasauga river. These are the streams where we found the micropterus coosae and also a bunch of turtles that don’t exist anywhere else in the state. In summary I guess I use the term “watershed” pretty widely, a tiny stream that is way on top of a mountain is still considered part of the Tennessee River watershed to me if that’s where the water ends up. Even if it’s over 100 miles from the actual river that bears the watershed name.

Junebug green pumpkin or black, depending on rainfall amounts. It’s looking like this year I will have to throw a stick bait on a downrigger to ever hit the bottom! I Texas hook them though, exposed hooks don’t have much use where I fish. Unless you just enjoy throwing money into the water, I have one fishing buddy that likes that. He just breaks off immediately when he gets stuck, doesn’t even want me to trolling motor over for a rescue effort. His motives must be driven by the bait monkey

They havent built a wall at the bottom of Georgia......... Yet..........

Yes the main river is nasty. There's plenty of lakes around here that stay clear no matter what, I chose one of those sunday

Wouldn’t mind catching one of those big long toothy things!

Definitely a largemouth. And a good dog

We got a few decent ones in the rain today!!

It seemed like a fish I should have grilled skin side down . Maybe I’ll try that one day

Parking will be what they need! No I have a propeller

I just rolled it in fishy fry and cooked it in a fryer. Flavor was good unless you got some dark meat. I would rank it just about where you think it should be, just below any game fish but well above most suckers. A lot like catfish but flakier/firmer

Striped bass drum and white bass, water temp 48 muddy and flooded. 63,000 cfs

It’s funny you would say that, I had a former neighbor say that her friend wanted some drum so I cleaned 3 yesterday and tried some. Not as bad as I was expecting but I had to trim a lot of dark stuff off it

I don’t know why or how but somehow I never end up there

I only allow my dogs to bark from 8-5 hahah. We keep them inside most other times, besides all the birds and squirrels they bark at go to bed at dark. I’m always a little nervous when I let the dogs out after dark and if I hear the first woof, I call them all back in immediately. Night critters tend to fight back and/or stink

I have houses all around and my neighbors are all awesome. Some do park in the way of me getting my boat out but they appear to be about 16-17 and don’t know better. They always move if needed, their driveway and carport are always eerily wide open haha. Several of my neighbors have been introduced to my escape artist beagle/basset that gets a scent in his nostrils, goes totally ballistic howling, and digs a subway tunnel under my wooden fence. He always ends up in someone’s yard howling like crazy with his nose down in the ground chasing moles. They always bring him back for me!

Holy cow. I’ve caught some sheepshead but not like that one! I’d say my biggest is 2.5-3 lbs . Crazy fighters

Ditto