Had a good long weekend. Went fishing Sat and things were slow but any day on the river is better than a day at work. TVA wasn't running any current on the Pickwick side of the TN River. Where we fish you live a die by the current. I finally found some shad schooling in the back of a slough and managed to pull a few bass out. The slough I was in is part of a park attached to the Natchez Trace so there are lots of deer. I had been hearing a dog bark while I was fishing when all of the sudden I heard a fawn bawling. I laid down on the trolling motor but couldn't make it to the bank in time. The 2 dogs had killed the fawn. I bet it wasn't a week old. I put it in the boat so the dogs couldn't have it and planned on dropping it on the other side of the slough but a park ranger pulled into the park so I stopped him and told him what happened and gave him the fawn since it wasn't legal for me to possess it.
On Monday I went down with the family to the same park to swim and we set out jugs to watch while we played. They were running current so my nephew and I went to check out the bridge columns. Lucky for us the largemouth had the shad schooled up on the columns. We caught a few bass. My nephew doesn't fish so it was fun to watch him catch a fish. They weren't monsters but a good time was had by all.
