Do you just ever ride???

[V-Bar]

yes. one of the big reasons for owning a bass boat is the driving experience. I catch more fish out of my 15 FT flat bottom than any bass boat ive been in but I sure love bass boatin and not just fishin

[1781ccT]

Yeah my Damn rides as I call them are pretty fun. My local lake is basically divided in half. The Clinch River side is the southern side and the main river channel. The Powell side is the northern side. The dam is on the Powell side but technically (I guess), the Clinch side. I can run from my closest ramp to the dam and back on 24 gallons of gas. I like the trip because I don't ever do it normally and I get to see things I wouldn't normally see.

I started to type something specifically to you about Norris. I made the run from the iBig Sycamore ramp on 25E, to the dam, to the Helm’s Ferry / Kilgore Marina, and back. I didn’t go back to the dam on the return, so that cut a few miles off.


That was a LONG run, even for me. Knew I’d have to refuel at least once, whether I put earplugs in and ran it WOT, or drove the little 115ProXS at 10-12mpg. Sure is hard to drive past that many miles of shoreline and make less than 100 casts all day. There’s a bit more lake on either end of that trip in order to see all 800 miles of shoreline, but I drove past more than half of them, for sure. Norris is huge!

[RNKingCx19]

Yes 20-25 minutes out and come on back.

[big_o_tom]

You aint kidding that's a long run. I like to go from Brogans ramp up to Indian creek, which is a little further than Big Sycamore. One of my favorite spots to fish is close to Big Sycamore.

[1781ccT]

You aint kidding that's a long run. I like to go from Brogans ramp up to Indian creek, which is a little further than Big Sycamore. One of my favorite spots to fish is close to Big Sycamore.

I definitely enjoyed going toward the river instead of the lake when putting in at Big Sycamore. A whole lot of shallower water that the deep crankers overlooked. Just gotta fish quietly to hear the boats coming in some places, like that old train bridge.