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Conasauga Creek Friday after work, Tellico on Sunday. I'm sure other place have good boatin also but when you take all thing in too account I don't think you can beat East Tennessee for the best place for a boater to live. Two differnt mountain ranges only eight miles apart, good people and not a lot of Yankees, it don't get much better.

Northeast GA benefitted from the same storms that brought rain to TN. And yes, we do have good boatin' in other places in the deep South besides East TN. We have more Yankees down here than you do Louie. Some of my best paddlin' friends came from up North. They know a good thing when they see it and don't want to go back to Iowa or Indiana. Can't say I blame 'em.

The Chattooga came up to 2.8' on the 76 bridge gauge Friday night . It was a superb weekend to be on the Chattooga. Our club had a weekend trip planned so the timing couldn't have been better. We paddled Sect. 3.5 or 4 on Saturday and everyone camped that night at Soc-em-dog resort campground. A large bonfire was built, many beers were drank and everyone had a good time . We did a river clean-up trip on Sunday. We took several canoes, a raft and a gaggle of two-bladers down Sect. 3 on Sunday. The open boats and the raft were the mother ships for the yakers to bring the trash to for hauling it down to the 76 bridge. We brought out pieces of old glass and aluminum boats. The floods caused by last years hurricanes exposed some old trash that had been under old sandbars. The glass boat piece I carried out was made of woven glass. Some of the old timers said it was thirty or more years old.

while I have left a thirty year old boat or two on the river, no river in Ga. You do realize that the old OCA you proberly had at one time or another is thirty years old now don't you

My brother still has the OCA we paddled back then. It is 28 years old.