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The Tennessee Valley Angler


Keeping Secrets

Fishermen are known as secretive types. Why is this? Why do fishermen jealously guard their knowledge? Is it because they truly are selfish jerks? They want to keep all the good fishing holes and...

Started in The Tennessee Valley Angler • 9 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: fishing commentary, fly fishing, hawgdaddy's hints
Artificially Angry: Why Lure Fishermen Need Therapy..

The latest from Flint River Correspondent Matt…This past Christmas season, I participated in the gala on-line event of the year: the Quad Gift Exchange on TiderInsider. For those of you not...

Started in The Tennessee Valley Angler • 10 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: book and video reviews, fishing commentary, fly fishing, miscellaneous, other fishing
Fly Fishing Tournaments?

Tom Chandler over at TroutUnderground recently posed the question: What if Bassmaster-style competition came to fly fishing? Would that be a good thing? There were lots of responses to the...

Started in The Tennessee Valley Angler • 10 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: bass fishing, fishing commentary, fly fishing
Catfish: Are they becoming just a memory?

Ok, I don’t usually get into much debate over the current environmental issues, which are too many to count at the moment, but sometimes enough is enough! This isn’t to say that I am...

Started in The Tennessee Valley Angler • 10 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: miscellaneous, alabama, catfish, fishing, netting
Happy Presidents Day!

31st President of the United States, Herbert Hoover. He was an avid fly fisher. In honor of Presidents Day, I’m spotlighting one of our fishing Presidents: Herbert Hoover. Yes, the man who,...

Started in The Tennessee Valley Angler • 10 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: fly fishing, miscellaneous
I Think I Smell a Skunk

One of the dumbest fish you’ll ever see, or else he just felt sorry for me. For the past two weeks I’ve noticed an unusual number of smashed skunks scattered about our highways. In fact,...

Started in The Tennessee Valley Angler • 10 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: fly fishing
Photo of the Moment: South Appalachian Brook Trout

Here is the latest addition to the Photo Gallery. I couldn’t believe it when I looked over the gallery and didn’t see this photo. It’s one of my favorites. I took the shot during...

Started in The Tennessee Valley Angler • 11 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: fly fishing, photography
7.5 Minute USGS Quadrangle Maps Now Available Free Online!

I stumbled across this the other night while looking for random topographic map images. Maybe everyone is aware of this, but I wasn’t. The United States Geological Survey (or USGS) is now...

Started in The Tennessee Valley Angler • 11 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: hiking/backpacking, miscellaneous
Secret Stream

No, this is NOT a map to my secret stream. So. I’ve discovered this little trout stream that I suspect could be a real find. I’ve found excitingly few references to it in the literature....

Started in The Tennessee Valley Angler • 11 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: fly fishing, adventure, trout
Sites of the Moment: James and Angie Marsh

I received an email this week from Mr. James Marsh. Mr. Marsh is an outdoor television personality, well-known fisherman, author, DVD producer and general fishing guru. He got his start right here...

Started in The Tennessee Valley Angler • 11 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: bass fishing, fly fishing, miscellaneous