Holston trip

[Troutman]

I spent a day on the Holston fishing between Indian cave and Nances Ferry this past weekend. It was a beautiful windless day on the river. The water was colder than I expected for August but still caught a few smallies and some stocker bows mixed in. best fish of the day was a 4-5 pd carp. got a crazy video of it but no picts.
A few picts from the day...

Early paddling downstream of nances ferry. The water was very cold and fog blanketed the river most of the morning. still burning off around 10am.

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pesky trout invading one of my favorite smallie areas. took a clouser.

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paddled about 2 miles upstream of nances ferry and fished back. stopped on a sandy shoal to cool off and eat some lunch. I've just rigged my canoe with front and rear anchor systems that can be raised and lowered from my seat using a thru the hull fitting and jam cleats. I'm using 6-8pds of drag chains. makes it easy to slowly fish an area and keep the boat pointed straight. I also replaced my worn out cane seats with webbing I bought and weaved on the old frames.

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caught several bass floating back. nothing of any size though. They like the yellow poppers.

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look forward to cooler weather and rising bass of the fall.

[Randy Ratliff]

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[waterwolf]

The water is stupidly cold for this late in the summer. I took the temp on Sunday down around MAscot and it was 56 degrees. Nothing worse for bass fishing then ice cold water.

I believe that the water will not warm this summer like in years past, they held it back 2 months longer, and by the time the coldwater is diminished the weather will have turned.

Guess it is good for the slime ball stocker trout though :rolleyes::biggrin: