Tennessee Boy

Proud we've added black crappie to the list. Not so proud to have the bighead carp record.

Just wanted to say welcome to the forum before Saturday. I probably won't like people from Alabama for a few days after the game this weekend. ?

@Catt That's some beautiful water. There's just something about fishing a stream that's good for the soul.

We would typically fish about half a mile an hour. We could walk back to the truck much faster and would often cut across a cow pasture or two. Only fishing while wading upstream allowed us to maximize the time we spent fishing the pattern that worked best for us.

I get what you're saying. I'm not suggesting that the way I did it in Tennessee 35 years ago is the only way to do it everywhere and for all time. I threw crawfish baits in the current and caught large numbers of very small smallmouth. I probably averaged 10 an hour and the fish probably averaged 7 in. It was big fun for a teenager in those days and involved a lot of trespassing on private property. ?

I haven't done much wading in the last 35 years but when I was a teenager I spent my summers wading creeks. I always waded upsteam. I would wade a mile up stream and then climb up on the bank and walk back to the truck. I'm not saying I didn't hit some of my favorite spots on the way back but I would climb down the bank below the spot and fish it from downstream. You catch almost all of your smallmouth in the current. They're facing upsteam looking for a meal. You approach them from behind, throw your lure up into the current and work it toward them. That's hard to do from the other direction. The fish I caught were 90% smallmouth and 10% spotted bass. If you're only fishing for largemouth, it might be a different story but I think going upsteam still gives you the advantage. Spend the time you have wading upsteam then take the fastest route back to the truck when it's time to go.

I fished my first club tournament in 1990 in a 17ft Aluminum Tracker with 50HP motor and I pulled it with a Honda Accord. You can't let pride keep you from fishing.

+1 for wading upstream

I remember going into a tackle store in the 1980s and buying my first map of Guntersville Lake. There was on old guy behind the counter who ask me how much I fished Guntersville. I told him I just bought my first boat and was new to lake fishing. He pulled out a pen and said let me mark a few places for you. He spent about 30 minutes telling me how to fish the lake. He helped me out a lot. That kind of service is very good for the sport. That kind of service is very hard to find these days.

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I've been a developer for over 30 years and I've had my share of brain farts.

The smart ones were fishing while the rest of us were going to math class.

Good point.... I hate it when the requirements are always changing ?

Or you can just write a quick lisp program to do it for you ? (map (fn [x] (println (format "%5s" x) "=" (format "%.2f" (float x)))) (range 1/16 1 1/16)) 1/16 = 0.06 1/8 = 0.13 3/16 = 0.19 1/4 = 0.25 5/16 = 0.31 3/8 = 0.38 7/16 = 0.44 1/2 = 0.50 9/16 = 0.56 5/8 = 0.63 11/16 = 0.69 3/4 = 0.75 13/16 = 0.81 7/8 = 0.88 15/16 = 0.94

Yeah that sounds very low. What do you mean by a house battery?

Barometric pressure affects bass because they don’t have eye lids.....no wait I think I’m getting my fishing myths confused.?

Very nice. Congrats!

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Sorry you have to go through that. Best of luck to you.

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If I was you, I would make my way up the Coosa River then down the Tennessee River. You can follow I59 up the Coosa and to Chattanooga then take I75 up to where ever you want to start down the Tennessee. Kentucky Lake is huge and you could probably make three stops and fish very different waters. I agree with all of the lakes already mentioned. I'll just add two of my favorites along the route that aren't world famous. Weiss Lake on the Coosa is a very fun lake to fish. Wilson Lake on the Tennessee is not as well known as the lakes around it but it is a beautiful lake full of nice LM and SM.

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It's my understanding that the high definition maps are base on recent on the water surveys and the standard definition maps are based on the same publicly available data as most of the other maps on the market.

Bass sense low frequency vibrations with their lateral line like the ones you mentioned. There is no way they pick up sonar with their lateral line. I had a graph in the 90s that ran at 55 kHz but it made a clicking sound that I could hear. I was clearly not hearing the 55 kHz pulse. I'm not sure what caused the clicking but I'm sure the bass could also hear it. I try to be as quite as possible but I don't worry about bass sensing my high frequency sonar any more than I worry about them sensing my cell phone pinging the cell tower.

What you need to keep in mind is that all animals hear within a certain frequency range. Can you hear a whistle? What about a dog whistle? John Hope did see bass that he was tracking clearly flee when he turned on his sonar. I don't remember exactly when he made this observation but it was a decades ago. Modern high definition sonars work at much higher frequencies than the old flasher sonars. I had a unit many years ago that I could hear when I turned it on in the garage and it would read depth off of the garage floor. You can hear up to about 20kHz depending on your age and how many Rock concerts you've been to. My Humminbirds generate a wide range of frequencies from 83kHz at the low end to 800khz at the high end. I haven't seen any info on a bass' hearing range. Catfish can only hear up to about 4kHz. Dolphins are known for their ability to hear very high frequencies up to 150kHz. I would expect bass to be some where in between, probably much closer to the catfish. So when @A-Jay is running his 360 imaging at 455kHz I don't think he has anything to worry about. Personally, I avoid the 83kHz frequency setting on my 2D imaging when I'm fishing and used 200 kHz instead. I should be safe with that setting even if some dolphins swim up in the Tennessee river.