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MOREL TIME IN TENNESSEE |
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Michael Bunch and
his grandfather William Bunch take a look at Mikes first Morel find of
his own. Mike found these on a roadside on April 9th. Mike made his find
after getting off the school bus and looking in a place suggested by his
father just days before. Needless to say mike is hooked and daddy is
proud of his little shroomer. |
Morels are up and the season is on. People
are out everywhere looking for the ever elusive Morel mushroom. This
week my son Michael and myself found around 30 mushrooms on just a few
outings of about 1 hour each. |
This year I wanted to hit on a special
topic related to morels. How to bag them when you find them.
Most often morel hunters use plastic bags to carry their crop out. This
is a bad bad bad idea. Using a plastic bag traps in any potential spores
that could make it to the ground. Each morel has the potential to
release millions of spores so you could be preventing a potential
million morels from coming up.
Carry your morels out in a mesh bag such as an onion bag or small potato
bag. This will allow any un-released spores a chance to make it out.
Another subject is the very
act of picking them. Most people pull the entire plug out of the ground.
This again is a big NO NO. Instead of pulling the plug out, cut the stem
off at the base. This will prevent killing out that particular mushroom.
The more conservation we practice the more our children like Michael can
enjoy mushrooming just as we do.
Happy hunting and good luck this year!!
Mike and brother Matthew all smiles and giggles.
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RAMP FESTIVAL
COMING SOON IN MORGAN COUNTY TENNESSEE
Each year on the last
Saturday of April there is a little known event taking place in the
hills of Mill Creek, Morgan County Tennessee. Russell Scott of
Morgan County hosts the Mill Creek Ramp festival each year sporting
good down home cooking, ramp hunting, morels and more. The best
thing about the ramp festival is the friendships made there. The
folks of the surrounding area are some of the best people you will
ever meet. If youre local and interested in going, give Mr. Scott a
call he is in the book, find out what you need to bring along as
most folks bring a dish of some sort. You will surely enjoy the
visit. Tennessee Outdoorsman will bring you coverage on the event
later in the month.
OTHER UPCOMING EVENTS
Polk Salad festival, Roane County,
May 9, 200910:00am to 9:00pm Riverfront Park, Harriman Tennessee
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$7,500 to win MACK Trucks 50 set for Friday July 3 at Wartburg Speedway |
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 $7,500 to win MACK Trucks 50 set for Friday July 3 at Wartburg Speedway
By Chris Tilley (C/T Marketing)
CONTACT: (606) 219-1723 or tilleyracing@hotmail.com
WARTBURG, TN (June 5, 2009)—With less than a month away, the Wartburg Speedway is gearing up to proudly present the 3rd Annual MACK Trucks 50 paying $7,500 to win / $300 to start for the Super Late Models on Friday Night July 3, 2009.
The event is expected to again draw the region’s best Dirt Late Model competitors to the high-banked oval located in Wartburg, TN; which again for the third year in a row is being presented by MACK Trucks of Knoxville, TN. |
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 I would like to share a fishing technique that has proven successful for me for the past 3 years on many of Tennessee's rivers and reservoirs. The Shakey head is rising to the top of many angler's preferred go-to bait. The Shakey head is a finese technique that has proven to catch big bass and sheer numbers of fish when it seems like nothing else is working. Fish are interesting beings that seem to have moods just like humans in a way.
Fish appeal to certain baits at certain times of the day more than others. When fishing for bass we generally see an active feeding period usually early in the morning, late in the afternoon, and well into the night time hours. I know almost everyone has given up after the morning feeding frenzy, loaded the boat up and went home because the bite just seemed to shut completely off. Well the shakey head technique can be a great way to coax those less agressive and seemingly lethargic bass out of their hiding places. During the mid day hours bass relate to low light areas, either concentrating in deeper water or shady areas like under laydowns, around boatdocks, or flooded timber. These places create ambush points for predator bass to sit in cover and prey on baitfish as they swim by. Bass again are alot like humans in a way that they become lazy after that morning feed. They seem to just back into a hiding nook and just sit and relax and wait for an easy meal that will not cause them to expend or exhert much energy.
The Shakey head technique is just a perfect presentation that will drive the bass crazy when placed in their strike zones. My favorite jig head for this rig is a 1/8 oz. jig head, with a 4/0 hook and a Zoom Finese worm. The water condition depends on my color. In clear water I tend to go with a Green Pumpkin or a Red Bug color. When the water is a little more murky I can't resist a June Bug color. I try and coordinate the jig head's color with the Finese worm's color. I like a light Fluorocarbon line (around 8lb.), this allows for easy castability and depth control. The fluorocarbon line allows for a very sensitive strike detection and limits the amount of stretch when setting the hook. Monofiliment just seems to float a little too much for me and has a significant amount of stretch.
The best way that I have found in presenting the bait to fish is to SLOW DOWN! Fish the bait slow, allow it to sink to the bottom, give it several shakes with the rod tip at 45 degrees and reel a couple of turns, then repeat the process. Be patient and you can drag this bait through almost anything. The more the bait is shaken in place near laydowns and any type of cover, the more the bait stays in a desirable strike zone for quality Largemouth, Smallmouth, and Spotted Bass. Get out and give this technique a try. This technique will get you more strikes when it counts. I promise you will put more quality fish in the boat and you will turn those long days with few bites into long days with a great deal of bass. Sack'em! |
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Posted by DJSHAKEY on Sunday, August 31, 2008 (20:59:13) (158 reads)
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A Fishing Tournament for the kids |
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Webmaster Note: Due to unforseen circumstances this post was not placed in time. We appologize for this error and we plan to have TNO staff on this event next year to cover and report on this yearly held Tourney. Original Submission below
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There is a Tournament for the kids on June,21 it will start at 11:00 and have games,free food and prizes. Blast off is at 1:00 and weigh in is at 7:00. The lake it is held on is Norris Lake and is a all Bass Tournament. There may be a $20 dollar fee at the entrance and the boat dock is Powl Vally Boat Docks.
ALL ARTIFICIAL BAIT!!!!!!! |
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Wartburg Speedway " "Darrick York Claims Wartburg Victory" |
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"Darrick York Claims Wartburg Victory"
Wartburg Speedway
Wartburg, Tennessee
By Brody Jones
After a few rain-outs courtesy of Mother Nature, the engines roared to life at last this past Friday night at Wartburg Speedway with some new faces along with the familiar ones in some brand new rides for some dirt-slinging, good old fashioned dirt-track action. The action started off with the familiar #2x, piloted by "Dirty White Boy" Anthony White, blistering the competition in Super Late Model qualifying with a solid 12.620 lap setting the pace for the evening. In Sportsman qualifying, it was the #66 of Mark Leach setting fast time with an impressive 13.260 lap. In the Mini Stock heat race, it was "The Rooftop Rocket" Rocky McNabb in the #01 winning the heat race with the # 8 of Brian Frost in second and the #D2 of Darren Goins in third. Winning the first Pure Street heat was the #44 of Jonathan Sims with the orange & blue #44 of "Slick" Nick Nelson in second. In the second heat, the #48 of Reagan Williams took the lead from the #22 of Walter Sims with three laps to go in the heat and never looked back for the win as Sims took second. And the Pure Mini class had the #17 of Andrew Green win the first heat with newcomer Kenny May, driving the #26 to a second place run. The #20 of Spunky Brown won the second heat with the #9s driven by Wayne Lewis in second. |
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Morgan County Dominates East Tennessee Small School |
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 Morgan County dominates the East Tennessee small school state tournament |
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Lost Swift Silver Mine of Jellico, TN |
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 Legend has it the Cherokee and Shawnee Indians mined rich veins of silver in the mid 1700's in the Appalachian mountain range. Later in the mid 1800's rumors say that the French and Spanish mined the ore. One of the most notorious silver seekers was John Swift. He has been said to have left hordes of silver stashed at various places. Also, he left a journal leading to the location of his treasures and to a mine where he and other characters, some questionable, mined and purified silver. During Swift's later years his sight failed him and because of this he made a declaration giving half his lost treasure and mine to anyone who could find them. Reprinted below is one such declaration. The Middlesboro, Ky. "Daily News" printed this declaration on Wednesday March 26, 1947. Uncle Scott Partin, a local treasure hunter, furnished it and said his grandfather gave it to him. Click the Read more button for more information on this fascinating tale. |
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With so many treasure hunting sites out today we couldnt resist jumping in and putting a section on our site just for this purpose. Tennessee is chock full of treasure tales and we have a few right here in our back yard. One tale is of over 100 silver dollars hidden away on a remote hillside in the Joyner Community. The man who hid it is till alive today but cannot recall the location of the treasure due to a night out with Jack Daniels.
He says he knows for sure it hasn't been found for if it had it would have been the talk of the town considering the condition and dates of the coins. We recently had a small treasure hunt here in our town pulling up a nice silver butterfly ring estimated value of about $75.00, not bad for 20 minutes out huh? Join us here for a weekly treasure tale and don't forget to check out our forums for more treasure tales to come.
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Lone Mountain State Forest. Should it be more accessible? |
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 Click here for Division of Forestry Lone Mountain Homepage
Lone Mountain State Forest, a 3600 acre forest set in Morgan County with beautiful scenery and winding trails that covers at least 14 miles of some of the most lovely mountains you will ever see. Problem is for most people is they will never get to see it. Why you ask? because it is open to horseback and hikers only. Horseback and hiking is fine but not for grandma or for the fellow in the wheel chair and not even for the guy who suffers lung damage from having worked for 26 years mining coal out so the state and nation could continue to operate. These people will never get to enjoy the public land as we call it, inside the state forest.
Should it be this way? should it be kept only to hikers and horseback riders? Some have raised this question so I felt it was my duty to present the debate. I work on this forest for a living and I am a firm believer in preserving the forest while at the same time I feel we should offer to the public the chance to enjoy our forest while boosting state public relations. The taxpayers of Tennessee purchased this land but not even 10% of your average population will ever get to see it all. My mother and father loves the outdoors but cannot hike the trails. They would love to see coyote point. To open the trails up in such a manner would boost public relations and show the people that the state does take into consideration the fact that everyone should be able to enjoy our state forests. Managed correctly it could be done safely and with little hassle. Click the read more link below to see a proposal that may allow more people to enjoy Lone Mountain State Forest and still be able to preserve it for future use. |
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Yukon/BC Canada Morel Foray |
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 Chris Matherly creator and owner of www.morelmushroomhunting.com has gotten together a once in a lifetime trip for those interested in Morels. The excursion will take you into the BC/ Yukon Territories of Canada to one of the most remote regions known to man. Nearly 100 miles from the nearest known inhabited area at the site of the Yukon fire.
According to Chris one can be expected to find up to 500 pounds of morels on this once in a lifetime trip. Discovery channel may accompany the members on the trip to document this amazing morel hunt. Fire burn morels is just something one must see for themselves. The first spring after a large fire such as this, one can find morels standing like little statues all over. This area being so remote its only natural to expect a wondrous site with not only an amazing amount of shrooms but the breath taking beauty of such a remote true wilderness. To be eligible for this trip you must be a member of Chris's club which is worth joining just for the information he has to offer. For more information on this trip you can visit his site at http://morelmushroomhunting.com/2008_yukon_fire_burn_foray_adventure.htm |
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Bass Master: Hey Need Some Help what whould Be the best web site or something to learn guitar chords. THX 8^) 06-Apr-2009 16:41:37 Bass Master: ATTENTION ALL MORGAN COUNTY FOLK. There has been a seires of four wheelers being stole from people. just tonight we had a prowler and we never caught him we seen a tall skinny guy. so lock up you stuff and keep a eye out 10-Dec-2008 03:52:01 sandhills hunter: Shout out to ya'll! I just stopped by for a quick visit. 25-Aug-2008 00:53:36 Bass Master: Well that Bigfoot was a hoax but i am truley convinced that there is sasquatches out there and no one will change my mind 24-Aug-2008 01:29:21 Outdoorsman: Well BM its a hoax. Told ya BigFoot didnt exist  23-Aug-2008 14:06:21 Bass Master: Bigfoot found!!! In gorgia if you think this is a hoax orin fact a real sasquatch please reply........ I think its real 16-Aug-2008 04:09:39 Bass Master: All righty lets see what should i shout about okm i know...... i made a forums page in the fishing colums and nobody has posted anything... PLEASE if you have any info about fishing, storys on recent fishing/camping trips or even photos of you or a famliy members catch please post it.  21-Jul-2008 02:33:58 Bass Master: im here and im shoutin 21-Jul-2008 02:28:08 Outdoorsman: Need mushroom hunters articles, if youre a shroomer send us your news 14-Feb-2008 21:03:48 Outdoorsman: glad you stopped by, hope to hear from you again! 21-Jan-2008 00:08:40 |
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