Bill F.
Rick Phillips wrote:
>About this time last year I went fishing down the road on the Holston River at
>John Sevier Steam Plant, Hawkins Co, northeast Tennessee. There is an outflow
>of warm water from the plant where tasty fish (such as channel cats) abound.
>This outflow runs for maybe a quarter of a mile before joining the main
>channel of the Holston River. As I approached the outflow I saw hundreds,
>actually...it was probably thousands...of Longnose Gar lined up along the edge
>of the outflow for the entire length of the channel. What a sight! You could
>walk down to the edge of the water, squat down and reach out and grab one of
>these toothy 3 or 4 foot fellows (if you dare!) by the tail. Quite an
>experience to sit down there with things playing around at your feet by the
>hundreds. Anyway I just remembered it and I knew I had some photos I took
>with a camcorder. I found em and have posted them to my Yahoo Photos at
>http://photos.yahoo.com/phoxinus02 in the folder marked fish. Enjoy!
>
>Rick
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