Useful Links
Wine and Winegrape Growing
North Carolina Wines and Vineyards - www.visitncwine.com/
French Broad Vignerons, http://frenchbroadvignerons.org/
Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation, https://www.brpfoundation.org/
Wilma Dykeman Riverway, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilma_Dykeman_RiverWay_Plan
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By Mike Pehanich - January 11, 2019
With the 2019 Major League Fishing Bass Pro Tour opener on Florida’s Lake Tohopekaliga only weeks away, David Walker is nonetheless happy to welcome winter.
“It’s a time of year I can fish just for me,” says Walker, noting the abundance of open-water opportunity near his home in Sevierville, Tenn. “We have highland and hillland reservoirs and a mix of largemouth, smallmouth and spotted bass: Fort Loudoun, Douglas, Norris and Cherokee lakes. (Plus) Tennessee River headwaters, including the Holston, French Broad, Clinch, Powell and Little Tennessee rivers.”
Walker unabashedly confesses to doing “a lot of crappie fishing in winter.”
“For me, crappie fishing is fun, and it is good structure fishing exercise at this time of year,” says Walker, a self-described “bank burner,” known for flipping and pitching hefty jigs during his B.A.S.S. days. “You fish for crappie almost like you would use your electronics and structure fish for bass. Tight-lining grubs (for crappie) is reminiscent of fishing a swimbait on a ledge for bass. The technique is almost identical, but the bait is two inches long.”
https://majorleaguefishing.com/bass-pro-tour/mlf-pro-david-walkers-keys-to-wintertime-bass-success/
