WATTS BAR LAKE NEWS
Lake News From Lakes Online, Affiliates and Authorities
Date: 7/30/2008
NMMA applauds important relief measure for recreational boating
WASHINGTON, D.C., July 30, 2008—In a significant victory for the recreational marine industry and the American boating and angling public, President Bush late yesterday signed into law S. 2766, the Clean Boating Act of 2008, protecting the more than 17 …
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Date: 5/29/2008
Youth Sailing Seminar: June 7th and 8th Contact: Jan Bijvoet at: bijvoetja@bellsouth.net
This event is designed to be a 2 day seminar to introduce youth to sailing. There will classroom and on the water sailing with instruction by some of the best sailors in the region (I am not kidding). If you know anyone interested in …
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Date: 5/28/2008
Miss Bluegrass & Jr. Miss Bluegrass
AGE DIVISIONS: 13-15 16-18
Pageant will be held Thursday July 17
Downtown Rogersville at the Stage at the Heritage Park During the kickoff of the annual Bluegrass Festival.
Casual Rehearsal will be Wednesday, July 16th at Heritage Park, time to be determined …
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Date: 5/21/2008
It’s all about rainfall, says TVA’s Chuck Bach. “We’ve gotten some much needed rain this spring, and it’s had a positive impact on reservoir levels. But we’ll need continued rain to reach—and maintain—summer target levels.”
Cherokee Dam
As manager of River Scheduling at TVA, Bach keeps a close eye …
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Date: 5/21/2008
Storm clouds gather over the mountains of western North Carolina. Thunder rumbles, lightning flashes, and rain pelts the ground. Soon, rivulets of water are making their way into a nearby creek and, before long, a gully washer is underway.
Follow the journey of just one of those many drops of rain over the next …
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WATTS BAR LAKE FISHING NEWS
Lake News And Reports From Local Fishing Experts
Date: 10/10/2007
DECATUR, Ala. FLW Outdoors officials have announced Monday that Wheeler Lake in Decatur, Ala., will host the 2007 Wal-Mart Bass Fishing League Chevy Wild Card regional Nov. 2-3. Anglers who entered all five tournaments in a BFL division this season and did not qualify for any other BFL regional are eligible to compete in …
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Date: 10/10/2007
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? FLORENCE, AL. Over $1 million in cash and prizes will be given away in Florence, Alabama during the 2007 FLW Series BP Eastern Division tournament, set to take place on Pickwick Lake Oct. 10-13, 2007. Sponsored by Florence/Lauderdale Tourism, the tournament will feature as many as 400 top …
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MEDIA ARTICLE SOURCES
Fishing News From Local Media Providers
Date: 8/20/2008
Alabama, Florida and Georgia have been waging a water war for 18 years, but a cease-fire may be in sight.
Alabama experts not only believe that the courts may finally determine the states' water rights in the next two years, but that Alabama might be one of the winners in the war.
Negotiations between the Re …
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Date: 7/25/2008
With gas selling for about $4 per gallon, Tony Cox is fishing more from his paddleboats than the one with a gasoline-powered outboard engine.
"I use my canoe and kayak a lot more than I did when gasoline was $1.99 a gallon," said Cox, an avid angler and fly fishing guide from Center Star. "I'm not the only one doing that …
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Date: 7/18/2008
Out-of-state residents who sell property in Alabama will initially lose 3 percent of their sales price to state taxes, but the new law's sponsor says sellers could get most of the money back.
House Bill 357, which takes effect Aug. 1, requires Alabama landowners who are not residents to withhold 3 or 4 percent of their …
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Date: 7/13/2008
The odds of catching a 10-pound largemouth bass in Watts Bar Lake are just slightly better than the odds of getting hit by a meteor.
Catching two in the same day?
The odds of that are probably the same as getting hit by a meteor that has a winning lottery ticket taped to it.
Sisters Katie and Mandy Shanton of Powell …
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Date: 7/9/2008
A student pilot and his instructor died Wednesday when their small plane crashed into Swan Creek Wildlife Management Area in southern Limestone County, Sheriff Mike Blakely said.
The crash happened around 11:30 a.m. and the bodies of the two men were pulled from the water a little after 1:30 p.m., Blakely said.
The …
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Date: 6/24/2008
If your Fourth of July plans include a trip to the lake, you don't want to hear that gasoline prices at local docks are now pushing five dollars a gallon.
Volunteer TV News spoke with several marinas on Norris Lake, and the average price Tuesday was $4.55 a gallon and up.
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Date: 6/24/2008
Lake levels were the talk of the summer last year, because they were much lower than normal, and 2007 was the driest year in 118 years. This year, things are better, but East Tennessee's lake levels are still lower than the folks at TVA normally expect them to be.
TVA officials say that they're operating at minimum flows …
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Date: 6/22/2008
Randall "Turkey" McNew and Ralph McClanahan II said boating the entire Tennessee River in a 16-foot runabout was like riding a horse across the Plains.
By the end of the trip, both men were saddle-sore.
"As far as doing that particular trip again in a boat that size, I think we've been weaned," McNew said.
In six days …
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