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Cumberland River 9/21
« on: September 23, 2006, 01:11:33 PM »

I had intended to fish the river around the Carthage end on Thursday but life interfered at the last minute on Wednesday and I wound up back at Cheatham.  Fished basically from about 10 AM to 6 PM. It turned out to be a really nice day wx-wise and for a large chunk of the day I had the entire area to myself.  No big fish but scratched out 21 little stripers  with none bigger than about 5 lbs or so. Still lots of fun on light tackle and all in all it beat work all to pieces big fish or no. Many, many the are the days in the past that I would have been ecstatic with 21 fish from 2-5 lbs.  :-)

Late in the evening got to talking with another fisherman that showed up in a jet boat about fishing for them on Barkley.  He shared some very interesting information about the spring time striper fishery there. Me thinks I'll have to go in search there sometime. We are so fortunate to have so many places to chase fish of so many different types here in middle TN. As frustrated as I get with the sparse TWRA coverage wrt the rampant poaching on our waters I have to say in terms of the resources available they've done a good job imo.

Going to try again to make it to Carthage  next week. Def need a change of scenery.

Tim

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Re: Cumberland River 9/21
« Reply #1 on: September 23, 2006, 01:48:48 PM »
Figured there had to be some in there.

Good luck up river next week. I'm doing grandfather duty stuff next week. He's only 4 and not quite old enough for a fishing trip according to his grandmother and mother.

Well, he's old enough in my opinion. I was at age 3. This child is being raised much differently. I don't know if he'll be ready by age 5.
Yesterday, I was at the bottom. I was at the bottom of a valley, in the river. Then my eyes hiked up the mountains to the snow capped peaks. I thought, "When I am at this lowest place I can be, standing in a river, everything is looking up."