It was a little bit cold when we first launched the boat, and didn’t warm up much either while Dr Phil and I were fishing the Tail waters of Watts Bar, plus all 5 turbines running and 10 floodgates open and the flow rate a healthy 69,994 cfs
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My good friend Gary Fomby and I decided to crappie fish this morning instead of fighting the crowd below WB dam. It proved to be a tough morning for fishing for us although we did catch a bunch of fish.
My friend, Tommy Y, and I finally got together for a crappie trip on Nickajack lake this morning. It has been a long time coming. It was cold, but we had a lot of fun for the 3 hours that we fished.
Gary Fomby, aka Biofisher decided to play hooky today instead of attending meetings for the schools. Grin. I’m so glad that he did. We had a foggy morning start, but it turned out very nice. He told me at the beginning that this was going to
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The schools are on fall break so my high school teaching buddy was off and wanted to catch some crappie after two poor days of bass fishing on Guntersville lake. We obliged him. Grin.
Candi is so busy that I count it a privilege just to fish with her from time to time. Dock shooting for crappie is her favorite way to fish so I told her that today, only docks. That made her happy. She put on a clinic this morning and took
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There was no one to take fishing this morning, so I went alone. I know that we don’t have a good moon phase, but when did that ever stop anyone from going fishing. I really enjoy scouting alone because I can position the boat anyway that I
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Mr S was willing to go fishing with me this morning. We put in 3 solid hours of offshore and dock shooting and with very good success. We caught in the neighborhood of 45-50 crappie and 2 catfish. About 20 of the crappie were keeper size and
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My wonderful wife allowed me to take J-Bird fishing this morning on her birthday. Jay and I had a so so 4 hours of crappie fishing. 7 keepers, a couple of short fish and a Blue catfish that was pushing 8 pounds. We forgot to take a pic of the
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I have a new friend now from Kentucky and was delighted and honored that he would make the nearly 4 hour trip down here for crappie lessons and fishing trip. He came down yesterday and stayed in a nearby hotel so that we could get an early
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I thought that Dr Phil was in Illinois this weekend with family, so I didn’t have any plans to fish this morning. But he called me last night and asked if I had plans for this morning and I said no. Then he told me that they didn’t go up there
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Gary Fomby and I were like the SS MINNOW this morning with our three hour tour of the mid portion of Chickamauga reservoir. We were faced with water a little above summer level, cold front conditions after yesterday’s late storms which lowered
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Candi asked for Monday before anyone else, so it was her turn in the Tyner Lane shuttle, aka Tracker 175 TF, this morning. We were out before daylight and went to the river and began fishing before I could see my line, but the fish didn’t mind
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My fishing hero, Richard Simms, didn’t have enough to do as owner and guide of Scenic City Fishing of Chattanooga, so he accepted a new job as editor of the CrappieNow online monthly magazine, and wanted to gather a little info for upcoming
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Days like today is what makes fishing a sport that is second to none. After a morning of only catching little keepers yesterday for my friend, Biofisher, today while fishing with Mr S, the big girls decided to play. We landed 17 total crappie
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