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Fishing Tennessee's River of Death

By Bruce Ingram
Bassmaster, April 2003

Friday, April 1, 2005

The Indians native to Northeast Tennessee may have called their home river "the river of death" or, in their language, the "Nolichucky." But to stream smallmouth fans today, the waterway presents quite a different image, says regional fisheries biologist Rick Bivens of the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency. "For the most part, the Upper Nolichucky is a very good river to fish from a canoe," he says. "The exception would be the three or so miles from the North Carolina state line to Chestoah, ...

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