I have been hearing a lot of talk about walleye below Patrick Henry dam,have they stocked walleye below the dam or have they washed thru the dam?
Walleye below Patrick Henry dam
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killingtime 41
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If there is any they are probably swimming up the Holston river to the dam. Patrick Henry doesn't have any that I know of.
Wooden Arrow
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Patrick Henry was stocked years back with walleye fry, but dang few were caught in the lake afterwards. most theories are that the fingerlings went through the dam. same way the rockfish supposedly got in Patrick Henry, coming from Boone. those old boys fishing inside of Eastman in jet boats show walleye on their youtube videos fairly regularly.
Kevin Snook
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They were washed through I believe.
Most I've seen were within a few inches of each other
Most I've seen were within a few inches of each other
Kevin Snook
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Back in the 80s and early 90s I fished a lot below Boone dam-some of the biggest hybrids and striped bass you ever saw came out of there.
Wooden Arrow
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yeah, they get fat real fast eating stocker rainbow trout. Tom Richards used to film below Boone pretty regularly...
Kevin Snook
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Tom and I fished together for many years.
I could write a book on our fishing exploits "back in the day"..
I still go by and see him occasionally when I catch him out in the yard.
Kevin Snook
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Kevin Snook
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I can't remember how many times I'd be in the front of the boat casting like "a well oiled machine " and he'd be picking out a backlash dragging a Redfin behind the boat and one would eat it..
holstonangler
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They wash through the dam, I caught one Saturday in the discharge. I've caught 20 or so down there in the past five or six years. Some of them look rough like they've been sickened by the chemical spills. They stopped stocking them last year, they were a vs/ky native strain that grows a lot faster than the erie series that they stock in most of the surrounding lakes.
Anything fish BELOW Eastman has got to be full of organic compounds. I thought Eastman patrolled the waters to keep fishermen out and kept folks from taking water samples.
Wooden Arrow
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they can't stop you from running a boat in a river "if" it is wide enough and deep enough to pass through in a boat. only reason Holston Defense gets away with stopping people from drifting through and fishing is that nobody wants to pay the attorneys for years worth of work to fight the feds in court. eventually, HD will fence the banks & put gravel roads along them so it can be patrolled. we used to go through the fence (LARGE hole, lol) on the mountain side and fish. the guards would watch us, and the friendlier ones would wave if we caught a nice smallmouth. "navigable waters" i'd be very careful passing through TEC because of the dam(s) crossing the river down near Industry drive. been more than a couple of folks capsized there & needed help.
