Random Pics From Various Float Trips on the Clinch.

[Timestepper]

Besides being nearby (20 minutes from where I live), the Clinch River Tail waters below Norris Dam are just flat out pretty and peaceful... plus there's some decent fish. Anyone up for a float?

Yepper, the Clinch is the one mistress my lovely wife allows me to have... and the only one I really want or need.

[Volzfan]

That looks like a great way to relieve some stress!

[sjames90]

Very beautiful. Looks like you had a great time.

[DaveS]

Man what beauty!!!! I would love to see that for real!

[Erik88]

Great pictures. Thanks for sharing!

[Timestepper]

Really foggy on the Clinch this morning. (But awesomely quiet and serene!)

[10-Ring]

I used to live and work close to Norris Dam. I worked a shift from noon til 9. I would go fishing several mornings a week before work and go in smelling like trout. I'd have the trout in the cooler in the car then go home and fry them up after work. I never cared that I smelled like fish at work. I miss the Clinch but it's quite a haul for me now.

[Guest 6.8 AR]

Beautiful pictures.

[Guest Bassman17SC]

That is one river I NEED to fish! Too many folks on the Caney and no big fish on the Obey.

[Guest cardcutter]

It is amazing how much the stress seems to go away when you float down a beautiful river. I hardly ever fish and I still find it to be relaxing.

[dlm37015]

i go to the white river in northern ar about once a month would move there but my girlfriend thinks its too country

[dats82]

Is that river stocked? I have floated the duck and elk a good bit, but the trout are stocked and do not last long after they dump a load. Either way, looks like a great time. If I ever get back up in that area, I'd love to float the Clinch.

[Timestepper]

It's stocked - Eagle Bend Hatchery is just across the river from where I take out - but there's also a better than fair amount of wild fish. Currently there's a 14 - 21 inch slot limit and only one fish over 21 inches may be kept. I might also mention that the state record Brown (28lbs,12oz) came out of this same stretch of water.

[Ramjo]

Up for a float? Not if they have seen your other thread with all the fishing mishaps LOL!

[DaveS]

I want to go...because of his other mishaps! Plus, I've always wanted to experience his kind of fishing! I want that little cute game warden to "check" me!

[Timestepper]

Up for a float? Not if they have seen your other thread with all the fishing mishaps LOL!

Those weren't mishaps, they were character builders!

I want to go...because of his other mishaps! Plus, I've always wanted to experience his kind of fishing! I want that little cute game warden to "check" me!

I'd like to have check me again too, Dave. Unfortunately she's eleven hundred miles and more than twenty years in the past from where I am now.

[DaveS]

Those weren't mishaps, they were character builders!

I'd like to have check me again too, Dave. Unfortunately she's eleven hundred miles and more than twenty years in the past from where I am now.

Dang...just my luck!!! Well at least my friend, are the trout biting?

[Timestepper]

Last time I floated - 'bout three weeks ago - I could have limited out if I'd felt like cleaning fish, so I guess that's a 'yes.'

Come to think of it, of all the times I've fished the Clinch (and that's been a BUNCH!), the only time I've ever even seen a Game Warden was at the take out ramp and he spent 5 minutes admiring my canoe cart without ever asking for my license.