East TN fishermen?

[RUGER]

I know all about the pollution and warning signs around Chattanooga.
The way I understand it you need to worry about it more with catfish.
What about the bream, crappie etc. ?
Safe to eat ?

 

[Big Pop]

I eat most anything from them but I usually fish Norris, Douglas, Tellico or Cherokee. I love the French Broad River too. I'm close to Knoxville.

 

[chimneyman]

Eat all you want. Most of the bad stuff is in the fat and bones if you filet them no problem Now the catfish might be a different story. Gasman eats catfish do you want to be like him ?

 

[CATCHDAWG]

It all depends on what body or section of body your fishing. The rivers and lakes that I fish have zero advisories for any species of fish.

 

[RobDooley]

Been eating Chickamauga crappie of over sixteen years and it hasn't bithered me abot.

 

[rsimms]

I know all about the pollution and warning signs around Chattanooga.
The way I understand it you need to worry about it more with catfish.
What about the bream, crappie etc. ?
Safe to eat ?

It varies widely from one body of water to another. You can find ALL health advisories in the state at link below. It's definitely not confined to East Tennessee. Middle and West have their fair share as well. Some of the worst are in some creeks near Memphis where it just says, "Do Not Eat the Fish," period.

https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/environment/water/watershed-planning/wr_wq_fish-advisories.pdf

 

[Union Co. Boy]

I've always eaten anything I want from Norris as well as crappie and strippers from Cherokee and crappie from Douglas. I remember a time when there was a warning about bass for a time on Norris , but that seems like a long time ago.

 

[BigRod]

I eat crappie and stripe all the time from Melton hill.

 

[Hduke86]

I don't worry about eating panfish around Chickamauga. Now if you get up in creeks like that comes out to the river under Broad Street near the Ace hardware then you may find a body floating and I definitely wouldn't eat anything that stayed up in there long.

 

[RUGER]

It varies widely from one body of water to another. You can find ALL health advisories in the state at link below. It's definitely not confined to East Tennessee. Middle and West have their fair share as well. Some of the worst are in some creeks near Memphis where it just says, "Do Not Eat the Fish," period.

https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/environment/water/watershed-planning/wr_wq_fish-advisories.pdf

Very interesting!
Thank you sir.

 

[cowhunter71]

Eat all you want. Most of the bad stuff is in the fat and bones if you filet them no problem Now the catfish might be a different story. Gasman eats catfish do you want to be like him ?

Fish advisories are for those who do not know how to fillet and trim correctly

 

[Jcalder]

it hasn't bithered me abot.

Ummmm, you sure

 

[WTM]

any large city youre going to have polution and run off. it wouldnt bother me if its an occassional meal but then again if youre eating a big bait of deep fried filets every day then youll probably die of something else sooner than cancer anyway, especially if you gobble down a wad of fries and hushpuppies along with them.

that said i try to avoid anywhere where fish may be marinating in human shat, that includes some marinas where the big house boats dock and the little doo doo river down from gatlinburg. but thats just me.

 

[RUGER]

I was thinking specifically of yellow perch from nickajack.
I wanna catch some and try them.
Never had them.
Only caught two in my life.
One at ky lake and one in the white river for a combined total length of about 8"

 

[FLTENNHUNTER1]

Catfish would be my only concern.

 

[Crow Terminator]

If you're coming that far, you might as well skip NickaJack and go to the real east TN yellow perch haven and have the cleaner water as a bonus.

 

[Planking]

I have a pond i get fish out of so im biased i guess. If it runs through cities, nuclear facilities, cattle feed lots and chicken houses im not that interested in eating it. When it floods that just runs right into the fishery.

 

[hoghunter65]

Most of the advisories are for catfish, and I'm starting to see some for Large mouth bass.

 

[CATCHDAWG]

What Crow said X100!

 

[RUGER]

What Crow said X100!

Didn't you tell me y'all catch them in the fall ?