We should all count our blessing for the resources we have close at hand. But the TN River holds a special place in my heart, although I have done very little fly fishing there. From 1970 until 86 I lived in Tupelo and had over to Huntsville as an area I travel, east of the Shoals area was more infrequent but I would spend a couple of month during the year in the Shoals working with Reynolds Metals. The in plant fire chief and I became close friends and would slip off and bass fish a couple of afternoons in the spring and fall. I know a small pond cutoff but connect to the river by a pipe I would love to get my float tube in. No one fishes it the fish get in and rarely find their way out. The is Fleet Harbor about Wilson Dam on the right of the photo.
A friend of mine got to go after Shoalies on the Flint with a guide and came back disappointed. It may have been too late in the summer. If I was in that area with a Gheenoe I would be caught drifting a bugger, and or a crawfish pattern along the island shore line below Wilson, they used to say there was a world record smallie in that area. I saw a couple that may have been line class records.
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