Thread: Tennessean saying hello

Hello from TN. I found this sight the other morning while searching for a place to buy minnows (minnars in East TN) at 5 am on a sunday morning. I did not find any where open at that hour but, I did find a new place to aquire some knowledgeable information. One thing that I have found most useful while searching through this site while waiting on my approval were the reviews on electronics (depth finders and trolling motors). I have found the answers to many of my questions already but, I have many still left to ask. The fish structure section is great and dropping structure is something that I enjoy about as much as fishing.

A little about myself. I'm 32 and have been fishing or hunting (hints the profile name) with my dad since I was just a toodler. We crappie fished all through out the year with this time of year being our favorite. I grew up fishing Tellico, Douglas, Norris, Fort Loudon, Chilhowee (walleye and trout), Calderwood, and Fontana in N.C. I now have children of my own and live just 5 minutes from a Tellico lake boat launch and the kids and I fish often when it's not to cold for them. My favorite fish is and will always be crappie but, walleye and yellow perch keep a close second and third. My dad and I flyfish for trout on many of the tail waters, Smoky mountain free stone streams and in many of the "mountain lakes". I wouldn't consider myself a bass fisherman but, I do enjoy the fight in a big cold water small mouth. I have hunted or trapped just about every critter that walks, crawls or flys in this state as well as many other states but, my passion (obsession my wife says) is bear and coon hunting with my pack of Plott hounds. My wife says that any man that walks 10 miles in a day following a dog is borderline insane. Speaking of my wife, we own and operate a small 100 acre farm where we raise Angus beef cattle and she is the hardest working woman that I've ever meet. She works as a nurse 12 hrs (days) and still manages to clean, cook, untangle the fights amungst the kids and I work 12 hrs (nights) and can hardly keep the yard mowed, (and still get on some body of water atleast once a week LOL). She is a warm weather crappie fisherwoman and until she met me she had never saw a crappie other than the fillets that her dad would bring home. On her first outting she caught her limit and topped my personal best crappie. Beginners luck I said until I took her perch fishing and she landed a yellow perch that was 2 oz shy of the state record. We bought a 22 ft pontoon boat last summer that I am in the process of rigging out for family crappie and night fishing outings and (my boat) a 16 ft G3 that needs new electronics as I robbed them off my old boat when the motor blew up when I loaned it to a "friend". Well, I have rambled on enough about myself and my family. I am going to place a short list of some of the lakes that I am interested in fishing in the very near future and if anyone could help point me in the right direction I will give any and all knowledge that I know of the lakes that I have listed. Thanks for reading my first post and I hope to get to know and maybe one day fish with a few of you all.

Hiwassee lake (yellow perch)
Guntersville (crappie)
Watts Bar (shell crackers)

Glad to have you onboard Fishorhunt! It is a great site and the search function will net you lots o' good info. You live in one of my wife's and my favorite places to visit. Maybe we will see you on the water on day.