TnRiver46

673 days since tennessee’s Last conference win

Go Cubs go

I would like to catch a snakehead, and possibly eat one too. Have you ever tried the meat?

These toothy critters sound like too much fun...........

Well @$&+';;$!$(!!!!!!!!!!!! That was miserable. Looks like we might have the worst team in the conference........ Again ...............although one florida fan reminded me Arkansas might be as bad. At least the fish were biting near the stadium this morning .

Shoot. That's a big un!!!!!

Caught these amongst some black bass schooling on minnows . It was a light bite that You had to set immediately on

Found a little feeding frenzy this morning!

My buddies always try to pull my boat on to the trailer with a rope no matter how many times I have told them it's impossible. One of them even refers to it as the "Arkansas method" hahahah

I usually suck up all my catfish from the bottom as well hahaha

Gosh I could write a 400 page novel about all the Fishing spots within 2-3 hrs of knoxville, TN. Don’t know where to start except right near the house lake #1/raging river (ft loudoun, about 14,000 acres) lots of tournaments (bassmaster Classic 2019). French broad and holston rivers come together to form the Tennessee river just upstream of knoxville. Top end of the lake (where I live) is fast and usually never much above 75 degrees in summer. The Bottom end is usually above 80 sometimes close to 90 in summer and slower but does have much more shallow flats and creeks. There’s grass on the upper end but hardly any on the lower end. This lake is also connected to tellico via a canal, and tellico is also 14,000 acres but vastly different. There is less current and much cleaner water in tellico, more pleasure boats and stumps than anything but can be great Fishing especially for walleye and crappie. Lake 2: Norris. 30,000 acres (clinch and Powell rivers) Highland flood storage reservoir. Deeeeeeeep and ultra clear, finesse fisherman’s dream. Winter smallmouth heaven, Water moves extremely slow here and there is minimal vegetation lake 3: Chilhowee. About 500 acres (Little Tennessee river) Tiny mountain reservoir that’s not as deep as it looks. Fast current and gin clear water, lots of big largemouth and smallmouth. Also healthy populations of trout walleye and perch, another excellent winter fishery lake 4: chickamauga. 36,000 acres. Probably the most popular lake in the US right now, no kidding. It Produced a 15 Lb largemouth a couple years ago , lots of matted vegetation and current. Florida strain stocking program has been going for a decade or more, and it works. It’s Also a very popular crappie lake . Whats really crazy is that that I left about a dozen great fishing spots off this list that are very close to home. Other lakes like Douglas, cherokee, Watauga, south holston and watts bar are also great Fishing. AND I didn’t even get into the shallow water river fishing

When I take buddies out on my boat, I like it when they bring me beer!

Awesome! I never catch crap in saltwater

I'll be at the game Saturday! Go vols

Looks like the tournament weights are steadily increasing. Perhaps the sky isn't falling. If you want to help, gloom and doom won't do any good. There are dozens of locks and the fish HAVE to use the locks to get upriver. The locks are the only hope for halting migration . They can't jump over a 100 ft tall dam

The Asian carp (bighead carp and silver carp) were not introduced on purpose. They were brought to US for food purposes in ponds. Floods in the early 90s washed them into the rivers and they boomed

Rattle trap

For all you smallmouth fans, we captured a little iPhone footage of a nice fish I caught the other day . Low quality video but the water is super clear and I know you bronze junkies want to see them all https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FhT0LCmINI

Thanks for the post and picture, my buddy fishes that river where it goes into the ocean.

The only way to stop the Asian Carp in the Tennessee river is in the locks, and so far whatever they are doing isn’t working. I would guess that just like every other invasive species, it will run it’s course and things will eventually level back off

That sounds like the culprit to me

Those are the best kind! I have an even older one (I think). Mine is an alumacraft that I bought on craigslist, it has a lake toxaway 1984 sticker on it so I’m guessing it’s older than me. A few drops of terro on a regular basis will wipe out boat ants

I'd say go for it. Only way to find out for sure

H20 express bone popper is my favorite

Also lets keep in mind if someone steals a gun and does something bad with it, it’s not the fault of the person who legally purchased the gun. It’s the thief’s fault, no gray area. In this country we are always trying to blame anyone except the people who deserve the direct blame