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Nimrod777

Nimrod777

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Had the distinct pleasure of spending the better part of a day with my own son as well as Captain NBForrest, elite fishing guide from Cleveland, TN. It had been too long since I'd kept such good company for such a fine purpose. The water was gorgeous, the lake relatively undisturbed, and the fish fairly cooperative.

As always, NBF shines on the water
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The college boy hasn't lost his touch, although he can't obey a simple request to catch some yellow perch
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Fortunately there are no length limitations on perch
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UNfortunately the leaf spring on the trailer snapped on a rock. Took us two hours and the help of some passersby to get things into limping condition
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Cleaning the fish, one perch had a 2" crawdad in his belly, one had hundreds of tiny, tiny snails, and one was chockfull of 8-10 of these thumbnail-sized critters. Anyone ID them for me? Ugly beasties, shell almost like a little turtle.
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Good day, 18 keepers, and a great escape!
 
After some sketchy research, I think my bugs are dragonfly nymphs. I've changed my original statement of "ugly little beasties" to include "voracious killin' ugly little beasties"!
 
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You forgot to mention that if you had 11 more of those
you caught you could have a can of sardines :D


Glad you didnt post my monster.

Good times for sure. And the trailer is getting
fixed monday.
 
Brian Dunigan said:
Nimrod777 said:
one was chockfull of 8-10 of these thumbnail-sized critters. Anyone ID them for me?
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Looks like some variety of water boatman beetle.

bd
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Nimrod777 said:
After some sketchy research, I think my bugs are dragonfly nymphs. I've changed my original statement of "ugly little beasties" to include "voracious killin' ugly little beasties"!
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BD is right. those ARE NOT dragonfly nymphs.
 
After further research, I'm still sticking with dragonfly nymphs. I know a boatman beetle, and these ain't it. However, I've seen multiple types of nymphs now, and a few that were a positive match.

Unfortunately the local birds have cleaned off my cleaning board of them!
 
Gramps, this lake and the Hiwassee are the only places I've seen them, but I spoke with a fellow whose son caught one out of the Chickamauga Dam area in Chattanooga years ago. Dunno how prevalent the population is, but I'd guess they need good cold water to flourish
 
Looks like fun, what size is your boat? oh and in the early spring I have caught yellow perch in Kentucky lake.
 
Nimrod777 said:
Gramps, this lake and the Hiwassee are the only places I've seen them, but I spoke with a fellow whose son caught one out of the Chickamauga Dam area in Chattanooga years ago. Dunno how prevalent the population is, but I'd guess they need good cold water to flourish
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there are yellow perch all over. i have caught them in ft. loudon/tellico,watts bar, melton hill, chilhowee, norris....
 

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