Not In The Carolinas... But

wbottomley · 07-10-2009, 08:13 PM

John, I'm going to get my boat registered again and head to Watts Bar sometime soon.

I cranked it today, which is the first time in two years.

Last time I went to Watts Bar, my friend and I caught a little over 200 cats.

**John** · 07-10-2009, 08:21 PM

Let me know when you're coming down!

I might stand on the bank and throw rocks at you!

wbottomley · 07-10-2009, 08:22 PM

LOL!

I'll throw minnows back.

**John** · 07-10-2009, 08:29 PM

I loved deep fried minnows. Sure takes a bunch of them to make a meal though. Bring lots of them. I'm hungry.

**jen grissett** · 07-10-2009, 08:52 PM

Watts bar is great...we used to go camping over there.

**Brad Caudill** · 07-10-2009, 10:35 PM

Never heard of it. I must live a sheltered life.

**John** · 07-10-2009, 10:51 PM

Brad,

Watts Bar Lake is on the Tennessee River. It was created by a dam that also has locks to allow river commerce.

But notice in William's first post about catching 200 cats, Watts Bar Lake also serves as a cooling resevoir for a big nuke power plant, and all of those household kitty cats have mutated into an animal that now lives in the water.

Now you know

wbottomley · 07-10-2009, 10:58 PM

And, they glow in the dark too.

**John** · 07-10-2009, 11:08 PM

Better then using lanterns for night fishing.

When I was a preteen, a group of us decided to go night fishing. One kid's dad had just purchased 4 really nice Coleman lanterns.

We hung those lanterns over the side our little flat bottomed boat secured with some bailing twine. In less then 5 minutes, the twine had caught fire, and in quick succession all of those lanterns were on the bottom of the lake.

If we had only had some of those glow-in-the-dark mutated cats, but alas, the nuke plants hadn't been built yet.