6 public waters in the East region — 4 lakes/reservoirs and 2 rivers. Every one is fishable on a Tennessee licence.
See every public fishing venue in Tennessee on the map, with boat ramps, camping, parking and full rules for each one.
Roane, Loudon, Rhea and 1 more county in Tennessee — Watts Bar Lake is a 46,853-acre lake, managed by Tennessee Valley Authority: A mainstem Tennessee River impoundment — big, fertile, current-fed water with the state's deepest bench of species: black bass, white and Striped Bass, Crappie, Bluegill, three Catfish species, Sauger and Carp.
In Hamilton, Rhea and Meigs Counties, Tennessee, Chickamauga Lake is a 29,735-acre lake, managed by Tennessee Valley Authority. A mainstem Tennessee River impoundment — big, fertile, current-fed water with the state's deepest bench of species: black bass, white and Striped Bass, Crappie, Bluegill, three Catfish species, Sauger and Carp.
Judd Slough is a backwater embayment of Watts Bar Reservoir in Meigs County, the Tennessee River mainstem TVA impoundment. It shares Watts Bar's broad warmwater fishery -- largemouth and smallmouth bass, blue catfish, black crappie, walleye and TWRA-stocked striped bass.
Meigs County, Tennessee — Mungers Pond is a 22-acre lake, managed by Tennessee Valley Authority: Public lakes across the Southeast typically hold largemouth and other black bass species, bream (bluegill and redear/shellcracker sunfish), black and white crappie, and blue, channel and flathead catfish -- species commonly documented across the region's public waters by state wildlife agencies.
A scenic Cherokee-forest tailwater — heavily stocked rainbow and Brown Trout in the upper river, strong smallmouth downstream. Generation from Apalachia powerhouse drives the flow.
Rhea, Roane and Meigs Counties, Tennessee — Whites Creek is a 22 km stream: A clear Cumberland Plateau reservoir — smallmouth-strong with a Walleye run, plus largemouth, Crappie and Catfish.
Across its mapped waters, Meigs County holds 20 species on PiscaMaps, including Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Black Crappie, Bluegill, White Crappie, Channel Catfish, Blue Catfish and Spotted Bass.
Ramps, put-ins and species for every water — plus the carp layer no other US app has.
Open the Tennessee map Join PiscaMapsOne Tennessee fishing licence covers every public water in the state. Resident annual is about $34, non-resident about $50, with 3-day and 10-day non-resident permits available. TWRA agency lakes and the Beech River lakes need an extra lake permit. Buy at gooutdoorstennessee.com.