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1. 8. Johnsonville State Historic Park 16. Fishing License 1015 Big Ridge Park Road 90 Nell Beard Road 16055 Hwy 79-N All persons ages 13 and older must have a Maynardville, TN 37807 New Johnsonville, TN 37134 Buchanan, TN 38222 fishing license to fish in Tennessee. There 800-471-5305 931-535-2789 800-250-8614 are a variety of fishing licenses available for 2. 9. 17. Pickwick Landing State Park residents and non-residents, including a 400 Zeiglers Fort Road 2910 Hobson Pike 116 State Park Road junior license for residents ages 13-15. Hermitage, TN 37076 Gallatin, TN 37066 Pickwick Dam, TN 38365 Non-residents have the option of buying a 615-885-2422 615-452-3706 800-250-8615 1-day, 3-day, 10-day or annual license. 3. Booker T. Washington State Park 10. Meeman-Shelby Forest State Park 18. Port Royal State Historic Park Those licenses are available with and 5801 Champion Road 910 Riddick Road 3300 Old Clarksville Hwy. without trout fishing privileges. Chattanooga, TN 37416 Millington, TN 38053 , TN 37010 423-894-4955 800-471-5293 931-358-9696 Fishing licenses can be purchased at some 11. Mousetail Landing State Park local sporting goods stores, online at 4. 19. State Park www.tnwildlife.org or by calling 1630 Edgar Evins State Park Rd. 3 Campground Road 2595 Highway 21-E 888-814-8972. Silver Point, TN 38582 Linden, TN 37096 / 731-847-0841 Tiptonville, TN 38079 800-250-8619 12. 731-253-9652 24845 Natchez Trace Road 5. Fall Creek Falls State Park 20. Do Your Part for the Environment 2009 Village Camp Road Wildersville, TN 38388 1015 Hwy. 143 800-250-8616 • Always drain bait buckets on land. Spencer, TN 38585 Roan Mountain, TN 37687 • Don’t dump bait in the water. 800-250-8611 13. Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park 800-250-8620 • Clean hitchhiking animals and invasive 6. 1825 Pilot Knob Road 21. Rock Island State Park plants from boats and motors. 8411 Harrison Bay Road Eva, TN 38333 / 800-714-7305 82 Beach Road Harrison, TN 37341 14. State Park Rock Island, TN 38581 423-344-6214 125 Village Green Circle 800-713-6065 WEAR A LIFE JACKET 7. Hiwassee / Ocoee State Park Rocky Top, TN 37769 / 800-543-9335 22. 404 Spring Creek Road 15. 570 Tims Ford Drive Life Jackets Save Lives. Children ages 12 and Delano, TN 37325 2010 Panther Creek Road Winchester, TN 37398 younger must wear a lifejacket except when 423-263-0050 Morristown, TN 37814 800-471-5295 the watercraft is anchored, moored or 423-587-7046 aground. Reelfoot Lake J. Lake Fall Creek Falls Lake Crappie/Bluegill Bass/Crappie/White Bass/Hybrid Striped Bass Largemouth Bass/Bluegill/Catfish Tennessee’s only natural lake is nationally known for This popular 14,000-acre reservoir is located near This 345-acre lake at Fall Creek Falls State Park is crappie and bluegill fishing. Fishing is best for these Nashville. Spring is a great time to fish for all home to state record catches for Channel Catfish in April and May. Experienced anglers can species. Long Hunter State Park is a day-use park and Bluegill. Fishing is best spring through fall. find these as well as bass and catfish throughout that offers two launch ramps and large parking lots. The park features an inn, restaurant, cabins, the seasons. Many guides are available locally. The The park’s Bryant’s Grove Recreation Area offers campground, launch area, and boat dock with jon lake is very shallow with lots of submerged stumps limited day use opportunities to fish the shoreline boat and canoe rentals. While personal jon boats and standing trees. Boaters have to navigate slowly of this large reservoir. The Couchville Lake Area are not allowed; canoes, kayaks and electric and cautiously. As such there are few large boats on features a small lake off the main lake and motors are permitted. the lake which makes it a nice place for canoes, provides Largemouth . kayaks and jon boats when the winds are calm. Black Bass/Crappie/Catfish/Striped Bass/Trout features cabins, Bass/StripedBass/Crappie/Sauger/Catfish Norris Lake is a 34,000-acre flood control campgrounds, five boat ramps, a boardwalk and This popular 22,500-acre reservoir is on the impoundment on the . It has Largmouth, fishing pier. A Reelfoot Lake Preservation Permit is which runs through downtown and Spotted Bass and is getting a reputation for required of anglers over age 16 and may be obtained Nashville. The lake is known for bass and crappie Smallmouth Bass. It is stocked annually with at the park or local bait shops. fishing, but also has big (30 lb+) Striped Bass and Walleye and Striped Bass. Striped Bass regularly Poplar Tree Lake catfish. In the spring, Sauger and White Bass are reach sizes of 25 lbs, and larger. Immediately below Bass/Bluegill/Catfish plentiful in the upper lake and . Bledsoe Norris Dam, and just minutes from Big Ridge State Some outstanding Largemouth Bass have been Creek State Park offers a campground and launch Park , is a coldwater tailwater on the Clinch River. taken from this 125-acre wooded lake nestled within ramp for registered campers only and a separate Wade fishing for Rainbow, Brook, and Brown Trout Meeman-Shelby Forest State Park . The park offers a ramp with courtesy dock for public use. may be best during non-generation periods. Bigger campground, fishing pier, boat dock with jon boat Great Falls Lake trout are often taken by boat during generation rentals, and fee launch ramp for personal jon boats. Bass/Bluegill/Muskellunge flows. offers cabins, a No gas motors allowed. campground, launch ramp and marina. Big Ridge This 2,110-acre reservoir is located near Rock Island State Park offers cabins, a campground, a 42-acre State Park and is known for bass fishing and Lakes of Natchez Trace State Park lake and jon boat rentals. Bass/Bluegill/Catfish Muskellunge. The Blue Hole located in the There are four lakes in Natchez Trace State Park , headwaters of at Rock Island State Lake Brown’s Creek Lake (167 acre) is managed by the Park is a popular place to fish for Walleye in the Black Bass/Hybrid Striped Bass/ Walleye/Redear Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency and is stocked spring. Other Muskellunge and launch Sunfish with Florida strain Largemouth Bass. Fish surveys as ramps on the Collins and Caney Fork Rivers are is a 30,000-acre lake on the Holston recent as 2012 have documented that there are located a short distance from the park. The local River. Bass and crappie fishing are best in the bass in the 10-pound class in the lake. Maple’s Creek area was the site of the 2012 Musky spring. The lake is stocked annually with Hybrid Lake (90 acre) is also managed by the TWRA and World Championships. The park offers cabins, Striped Bass which commonly reach seven pounds provides catches of catfish and Bluegill and campgrounds, and a launch ramp and has produced or more. Panther Creek State Park features a Redear Sunfish. A TWRA Agency Lake permit is a one-time US record walleye and a current state campground, small marina and launch ramp. required for these lakes. Nearby Pin Oak Lake (750 record paddlefish. acre) attracts recreational boaters and is large Black Bass/Crappie/Catfish enough for waterskiing. Evening fishing on Pin Oak Center Hill Lake Bass/Crappie/Walleye/Catfish/Trout This 35,000-acre impoundment is located on the Lake can be productive. Day or Annual Lake Use This 18,000-acre reservoir with rocky shorelines near Chattanooga. In recent years Permits for Pin Oak Lake may be purchased at the supports three species of bass. Bass fishing is best Largemouth Bass fishing has been outstanding with inn. Cub Lake [52 acre) provides canoe and jon boat in spring and fall, although many bass anglers fish 10-lb fish becoming more common. Crappie fishing rentals. Pin Oak Lake and Cub Lake offer fair fishing at night in the summer. Edgar Evins State Park is best in the spring. Catfish and bass are targeted for bass, bluegill and catfish. The state park features features cabins, a campground, full-service marina almost year-round. Two state parks are located on an inn, restaurant, cabins, campgrounds, launch with covered and uncovered slips, two launch ramps the shores of Chickamauga Lake. Harrison Bay State ramps and jon boat rentals. and courtesy dock. Immediately below Center Hill Park features a campground, launch ramp and one Dam, and just minutes from the park is a coldwater of the most complete marina facilities in the area. Bass/Crappie/Sauger/White Bass/Catfish tailwater in the . Fishing for Booker T. Washington State Park is a day-use park Pickwick Landing State Par k is located on the banks Rainbow, Brook and Brown Trout is best during featuring a launch ramp and fishing pier. of Pickwick Lake close to the dam. The reservoir has non-generation periods. Hiwassee River fisheries similar to those listed for . Rainbow Trout/Brown Trout Below the dam is Pickwick Lake. In this tailwater Bass/Crappie/Catfish/Striped Bass/ This large, regulated river flows through the Scenic area, just a few minutes from the park there are Hybrid Striped Bass/Trout and Hiwassee/Ocoee excellent fisheries for Sauger (winter/spring), White This long winding reservoir (10,000 acre) has State Park . At high flows the river is heavily used by and Yellow Bass (spring), Striped Bass (spring Largemouth, Spotted and Smallmouth Bass and is rafters and kayakers but you can also hire a guide to through fall) and catfish year-round. These fish can best known for the later. It is stocked annually with fish from a drift boat. Wade fishing is limited to low be caught from shore or by boat. The park offers Striped Bass and Hybrid Striped Bass which can be flow periods. Fishing is best fall through late spring an on-site restaurant, inn, cabins and campground, caught year-round. Striped Bass commonly exceed during the stocking seasons. Many anglers flyfish full-service marina with covered, uncovered and fifteen pounds and hybrids are typically about seven but other tackle are just as effective. Hiwassee transient slips, dry storage, boat rental and two pounds. Tims Ford State Park features cabins, a /Ocoee River State Park offers a campground and launch ramps. nearby launch ramp. campground, boat ramp and small marina. Fifteen Kentucky Lake / Tennessee River minutes away is a full-service marina with slips, Doe River pontoon boat rentals and a restaurant. Immediately Bass/Crappie/Cafish/Striped Bass Rainbow Trout/Brown Trout below Tims Ford Dam, and just minutes from the Kentucky Lake is a 160,000-acre reservoir of the The Doe River is one of the most productive wild state park is a coldwater tailwater on the Elk River. Tennessee River. Four state parks provide entry to trout streams in Tennessee and runs through Roan Fishing for Rainbow and Brown Trout may be best this lake that is known for great sport fishing. Mountain State Park. Most anglers flyfish for the during non-generation periods. While some enjoy fishing from banks or fishing abundant Rainbow and Brown Trout. The park piers, the best way to experience this large reservoir Red River features cabins, and trail access to the river. It is is by boat. The creek mouths and embayments are Smallmouth Bass/Catfish also in the vicinity of other wild trout streams as popular for spring crappie fishing from late March The Red River is a free-flowing river that is best known well as the . through May. Bluegill and Redear Sunfish are also for Smallmouth Bass and catfish. Fishing is best spring commonly harvested from the lake. Bass fishing is through fall. Port Royal State Historic Park provides best in the spring and fall. Catfish are commonly limited and a canoe launch site. caught in summer and fall. Paris Landing State Park is the most northern park featuring an inn, cabins and campground, full-service marina with covered and uncovered slips, four lane ramp and overnight parking lot with charging outlets. Local guides and tournaments are plentiful. Johnsonville State Historic Park features bank fishing and a privately owned marina with a fee ramp at the park entrance. Nearby Nathan Bedford Forrest State Historic Park has cabins, a campground, launch ramp and courtesy dock. Further downstream, Mousetail Landing State Park provides a campground, ramp, courtesy dock and plenty of shoreline.