Trout spotted in Alabama

[ELHead]

Trout Lilies that is. Couldn't pass-up a pic of these. Blooming a few weeks early with the warm winter.
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[Uncle Jesse]

EL Head, where you been boy. You got tailwater trout on the Sipsey below the Smith Lake dam don't you and over in the NE mountains I seem to remember. But you got smalljaws, I really want to catch me a brown fish on a fly rod.

[EdD]

EL Head, where you been boy. You got tailwater trout on the Sipsey below the Smith Lake dam don't you and over in the NE mountains I seem to remember. But you got smalljaws, I really want to catch me a brown fish on a fly rod.

There are no smallmouth bass in Tennessee.


Ed

[Uncle Jesse]

But he is in the Shoals area. Big ole smallmouth bass hanging out below Wilson Dam. I would love to troll a nice wooly booger down along side Patton Island below the dam, which is the head waters to Pickwick Lake.

[ELHead]

I do catch a few smallies here. Mostly on Shoals Creek. I usually wade at Goose Shoals, where the Shoals levels out to become Wilson Lake. A few trout are just north of me at Lawrenceburg, TN, 35 Mi. 0r so, also on the same Shoals Creek.

[Uncle Jesse]

I so wish I had known about Goose Shoals for the 18 years that I had Reynolds Metals as my client and would spend 6 - 8 weeks a year up there visiting the plants. At one time my career aspirations was to be the next fire check at Reynolds, but life got in the way of my plans. The NW corner of Alabama, NE Mississippi and the adjoining area of Tennessee is a real treasure yet to be discovered by most of the country.

[EdD]

Uncle Jesse,
Smallmouth Bass are the Dark Side of the Force. You must not succumb to the Dark Side. You must flee from it. You must not fall prey to the power of the Dark Side.
(and there are ain't no smallies in Tennessee.)

Ed

[Uncle Jesse]

Ed,

I know smallmouth are the dark side of the force, but I must face the dark side and overcome it. There is no other way. I have known for years there are no smallies in Tennessee and they only bottle soft drinks in the hills up there.

Would you be interested in some beach front property in Louisiana I can get you a deal, going down next week to see Mama and my family.

[EdD]

Uncle Jesse, I would take you up on your fine offer, but I'm a little short after buying into that mountain retreat community in Jackson County, MS.
I hear the smallies are really thick in the cool, mountain streams of southern Mississippi.


Ed