TnRiver46

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. 

Parking downtown is an art form that takes a lifetime to master 😂 
 
By march the basketball season will be in tournaments and there’s no football so it will be easier. I’m sure they will open a lot of the garages for parking, the students don’t use too many spots after 3-4 pm. I know lots of secret ninja spots to park so holler at me if needed. Some of the hotels have parking garages within walking distance of everything 
 
I fished the whole time in ‘23 but I went in ‘19 to weigh ins and expo and it wasn’t too tricky 
 
I think @Glenn stayed at the Marriott in ‘23
 
weigh in is at food city center basketball arena, expo is at Knoxville convention center I believe, and take off is from volunteer landing. All walking distance from each other. Calhouns is a good restaurant to park at, might have to get a pork sandwich to make it look good 

Won’t make any headlines, but there’s a lot of folks like that out there. Thanks for kindness and thanks for recognizing it as well 

Personally I use the reel handle to retrieve a lipless crank……

Fluke , tube, finesse worm on jighead. Also sometimes a bug swimbait will trigger them 

Sounds like early spawning activity to me, usually the only time of year when they just quit biting. It’s quite ironic as everyone is typically always looking forward to the spawn, IME it’s the worst time of year 

We don’t have the true shad but been getting plenty of big herring 

Hey man get off my turf……. Just kidding I grew up around there. You assumed correctly, bout time for the bass fishing to slack off upstream of Rockford. Luckily it gets really good below the small dam at egwani from now til spring 

Glenn said the updates were causing it and should be done soon 

Some dude on chickamauga ticked off enough people to get in trouble a few years ago. He had some offshore monster boat capable of like 50 mph. I mean this thing was as big as a dozen wake boats. He would just tear up and down the river and slosh un holy amounts of water and injured 3-4 people. He is a doctor and was awaiting federal trail for some shady stuff in 2021
 
the boat is a Pershing 74, one bass boat clocked it at 58 mph 

I always have the switch turned on when fishing, I click it over to backreel when I think I’ve got something big hooked. I’ve caught a lot of 40” gar with 6 lb mono backreeling, they go far and fast 

Been tough, they just had the bassmaster classic here. They are biting plastics pretty well but mostly 1 lbers

I always crank my engine at least every 3 hours or so , just to keep her juiced. I doubt there’s an exact time but I just do it for piece of mind. I did accidentally leave my graph on in my carport all night once and my battery was still reading 12.4 v 

Just thought I’d come here to say I hate electric motors and wiring and battery connections and plugs. That is all, back to paddling 

All of the above………
 
if I had to pick I would go with prime rib 

The app is garbage, I quit years ago. Tva.com has much more info 

It is fun to use both, builds new skills 

Gosh write a whole novel why don’t ya??? I don’t have time to read that long of a post 

They love a minnow trap with bread in it 

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? 
 

I think I would opt for shoveling snow! Glad they got it buddy, that sounds awful. My aunt had problems with those things for years

Yes that was it, my bad. I use the clear liquid 

yeah buddy! The ones in this picture are one time use in the rapids . If you’re doing multiple floats for years to come, what you need are tractor tire inner tubes. The valve stem will bug you a little bit but they won’t bust nearly as easily. Throw some
hooks sinkers and a few pop R s into a bag of zoom worms and zip it in your shorts pocket 
 
i must stress that this is some of the most fun fishing you will ever do. This is how we fish the rivers with rapids where you would normally be dragging a kayak or canoe. Sure the fishing is great, but the added element of tubing down rapids makes it so much fun 

Pro tip: If you don’t pay attention to when free fishing day actually occurs, you won’t notice any difference 
 
bunch of codgers..........