Tailwater Trout in the South: A Guide to Finding and Fishing the Region's Man-Made Trout Fisheries

by Jimmy Jacobs

Book Overview

In the 1930s, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Tennessee Valley Authority began erecting dams on rivers throughout the Southeast to promote water conservation and to generate hydroelectric power. By the 1940s, fisheries managers began to realize that the cold waters released through the tailraces of these dams could support trout, and a new era of angling dawned in the southeastern U.S. Today the range of tailwater trout in the South has expanded...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0881503355
• ISBN13: 9780881503357
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Countryman Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"