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That's why I only get Bear Valley bearburger at Walmart. They only eat berries and bark. I

There's an easy way to do that. If you're trolling the flats/flat points, once you have your rigs at the right depth, just make a wide loop out over open water at the same depth/speed you were doing. On points, it beats trying to follow that sharp turn at the tip and have your baits stall or hang up cutting across the point. When working dropoffs, make the loop anytime you encounter an ditch or other sudden change, but don't loop until your baits have passed the feature, as those are often hotspots. Most of your fish will come where you usually work, but there are often more suspended over the channel like you said, and yes, they're often the bigger ones.

That's right. The only public access is at the limited road/highway right-of-ways. There was a bit of kerfuffle back then over public funds used for next-to-no public benefit. I've heard nothing more about it for years. More recently, there's a private property between Hwy 43 and the OK line that hosts corporate events boasting of the onsite trout fishing. No idea where those fish came from.

Cool! Next time you're in the BV area you might try at this Spavinaw Creek bridge west of Hiwassee a few clicks; https://maps.app.goo.gl/NKVFdTHS2LoTQteK8 Lots of variety there, rollers, darters, shiners, sculpins, etc. Like Little Sugar, Spavinaw is "over the hump" west of the WR basin, so it's an entirely different drainage with a few different species. The next bridge a mile or two downstream can be good too, but less access. Last time I was at that one someone had salted the hole with barb wire. At one time AGFC stocked a few trout there too, but I have no recent status on that.

I really enjoyed this trip report. Attaboy! Loaches are my favorite aquaria species. A friend once had a big tank with 15-20 big ones. Cool fish. Lore has it that weatherfish react strongly to... weather... If your planning included that factor, double attaboy. I also appreciate your variety of tackle and methods. You seem equally at home with artificials on a micro rig or cut bait on a baitrunner. Whatever seems like the better-odds approach. That's me too. Unlike some, that will remain anonymous, who feel it necessary to only fish on one foot in a bowling-release position, using an artificial bug on an artificial willow rod. You know who you are. 😎 I

...and tomorrow night will be partly cloudy and dark. (George Carlin, aka The Hippy Dippy Weatherman)

Could it have anything to do with, "Just stand on the porch deck, butt naked, with a box of donuts, and watch the clouds go by"?

Not when you insist on doing it the hard way. 😁

I've done that a couple times since I49 was completed, it's not that bad. Even with the obligatory stop at Arthur Bryants it was only ~12 hours. Heck, you could even lay over a couple hours at the Magic Touch Massage and beat that 16 hrs... 😎

When made with hemp, it's called biscuits and groovy.

Be sure to wipe the metadata from those pics too.

Is it still there?

That's cool. Someday she'll probably be the only one at the ramp who was actually taught how to do it.

A 5-gallon bucket full of gizzard shad left outside to freeze in the winter, then forgotten. It was remembered the day it blew the snap lid off...🤢

If I saw that on my street, I'd have to take a picture too. I

Freeze up some plastic containers of ice for the really hot days. They'll sweat enough to maintain the moisture too. I can't say that a dead worm farm is the most offensive stench I've ever encountered, but it's pretty close. I

That's a lunker Goldeye. Ol' Miss tributary? I

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That's absolutely a good plan, very few anglers take advantage of generation currents in reservoirs. Since the flow is so much slower than a river though, I've found the upstream side of points to usually be better than down. When I did it, I'd drift slip floats out ahead of the boat, or drag bottom rigs behind. Either way your bait approaches with the current right into their faces.

Some friends and I are planning to go to their vintage (VSCDA) series races on 10/11/24. Looks like fun. According to their website, the average Joe can run his car on their track at certain times. https://ozarksinternationalraceway.com/

Just-In-Time manufacturing served us well until it didn't. It depends on every link in the chain pulling its' weight. When a link breaks and there's no spare, the wheels stop turning. We're facing the challenge of synchronizing the cogs to get it moving smoothly again. The whole point of JIT was to minimize inventory and holding costs. The ones that forgot that are being reminded.

It's probably not just Mercury causing Brunswick's ills;

Gotta love that fresh sweet corn. Dad always planted 8-12 rows along side the field corn, so we hauled 10-20 dozen ears to the grocery store every day for a couple weeks. Tomatoes & strawberries and apricots too.