My fishing partner, Phil Gawthrop, only had time to help me at daybreak to put out the last bamboo hotel that I had in my driveway. We determined to quit fishing at 8 am, unless the fish were biting.
I’ll bet everybody thought that I had been kidnapped, but no one ever wants to kidnap a 76 year old with a hearing impairment. Grin. It has been 9 days since my boat has been in the water and it was getting antsy. So, Mr S. and I took it out
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I had the honor of fishing with a new friend, Caleb L. from Monterey today. That is about a two hour drive from Chattanooga and I wanted him down here at daylight before all the trollers got on the water. Grin.
It was a red hot start to the morning for Dr Phil and me. We were on the water fishing by 8 AM and by 8:30, we had 12 big keepers in the livewell before they slowed down. We left for the next spot and noticed a change in the weather. It was
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To coin a saying by my good friend, Al Slater aka Fat Albert or Al Father, “There we wuz”. It as a raw and rainy morning on the Chick, but when Dr Phillip called me at 8 AM, it wasn’t raining and after looking at the radar map, we thought that
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Dr Phil and I took advantage of the beautiful morning to do a little crappie fishing. Actually, we fished from 8 am to a few minutes after 12. We had 12 keeper crappie, most were caught off a couple of docks. Phil caught a couple of keepers
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Although it was raining, Dr Phil and I decided that since the wind wasn’t blowing very hard and the air temp was in the 50’s, that we might try our luck at crappie fishing. The lake is still stained brown and more debris than I have ever seen
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Mr S texted me around 9 am and said that he was going to launch his boat at Wolftever creek a few minutes after 9 and asked me if I wanted to occupy the back seat and ride around and do some kind of fishing. He actually didn’t say it like that,
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I was really needing a fishing fix when CUonthelake texted me last night with a request to panfish in the afternoon today. She only had 2 hours to fish before needing to go catch a conference call. But a productive 2 hours of Bluegill fishing
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I love to take new people who want to know how to improve their fish catching. We didn’t have the best of days catching wise, but it was a teaching day of looking at various structures and how to fish them.
Dr Phillip Gawthrop’s three grandsons and their Daddy, Adam, wanted a trip for bluegills and I was delighted to take them. Although TVA was spilling water over the flood gates, we managed to get behind the retaining wall that they have built
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My daughter and son in law came down this morning and had breakfast with us and after a little shopping trip to the grocery store, suddenly I had a crappie itch, so I asked Wanda if she would take me to a ramp near our home and launch me for
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Candi and I fished a different part of Chickamauga Lake this morning and although we caught a lot of fish, the vast majority of those were in the 9.5-10.5” range. We only landed 3 fish over 11”. The biggest by Candi on our very last stop was
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Dr Phil and I tried something different this AM. We went to Guntersville lake, Nickajack tailwaters and caught two of everything except Bluegill. Grin. Two skipjacks (I had another one break 4 lb test line), two largemouth bass (15”), two
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There we wuz! Fat Albert’s favorite saying, in a fog this morning before daylight. We had to idle for a while in order to safely arrive at our first spot. I turned the Mercury 60 4 stroke off and deployed the new Terrova and started moving
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I don't know how a teacher could be more proud of their number one student that I was this morning with Candi. I have said on multiple occasions that she is the best crappie student that I have ever had the honor of teaching how to crappie
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