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3 days ago | 
mainstreetmediatn.com | Monte Hale |Larry Woody
Hunter Larese lands an arrowed carp. MARC LARESThe boat silently glides through the weedy shallows, a spotlight piercing the dark water, when a two-foot-long shadow suddenly cruises across the beam. Marc Larese draws his bow, aims, and releases an arrow tethered to a spool of line attached to the bow. The barbed arrow strikes home, the big fish splashes and thrashes, and Larese hauls in a huge grass carp.
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1 week ago | 
mainstreetmediatn.com | Larry Woody
After 75 years, Tennessee’s game law enforcement rules have changed. TWRAWith hunting seasons approaching, the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency has declined to discuss its revised game-law enforcement policies and procedures. The Tennessee Court of Appeals last year ruled that wardens can no longer go onto private property without permission or conduct searches and surveillance of suspected game-law violators without a “probable cause” warrant.
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1 week ago | 
mainstreetmediatn.com | David Wilson |Larry Woody
This water snake grabbed a popping bug and got hooked. TOM ADKINSONTravel writer/angler Tom Adkinson sent me a photo a while back of an accidental catch he made – a big water moccasin grabbed a topwater lure Tom was casting – and it brought to mind other hooking oddities I’ve known over the years.
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2 weeks ago | 
mainstreetmediatn.com | David Wilson |Larry Woody
Mysteries surround state’s contaminated lakes. SUBMITTEDCenter Hill Lake was recently added to the list of waters with fish-consumption warnings due to chemical contamination, as confusion and concern about the problem grows. The Center Hill advisory, issued by the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, is for walleye 19 inches or longer due to the presence of mercury.
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2 weeks ago | 
mainstreetmediatn.com | David Wilson |Larry Woody
A reader emailed a while back to say she came across an internet reference to fried armadillo eggs and wondered if I – a sampler of such exotic critter cuisine as squirrel brains, fried grasshoppers and creek chubs – had ever tried them. I explained that armadillos don’t lay eggs. They are mammals whose young are born alive, just like you and me, but with (perhaps) longer noses.
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2 weeks ago | 
mainstreetmediatn.com | David Wilson |Larry Woody
LARRY WOODYMain Street MediaLebanon native Dawson Sutton straps into his Rackley W.A.R. machine at Kansas. FILELebanon racer Dawson Sutton was one lap away from his first victory in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Saturday at Michigan Speedway, but got shuffled back to a final position of 13th after two overtime restarts. “I had a shot,” said Sutton, who started 15th in the DQS Solutions & Staffing 250.
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3 weeks ago | 
mainstreetmediatn.com | Larry Woody
Larry Woody's Notebook LARRY WOODYMain Street MediaChad Vance caught and released this Cheatham Lake record catfish. SUBMITTEDAfter a catfish broke two of his limb-lines, Chad Vance of Kingston Springs knew he was dealing with a big fish. But he had no idea how big until he hooked the monster a third time, and this time he landed it: a 55.4-pound flathead catfish, the biggest on record from Cheatham reservoir. The previous record was a 44-pounder caught in 2018.
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3 weeks ago | 
mainstreetmediatn.com | David Wilson |Larry Woody
LARRY WOODYMain Street MediaRyan Blaney at Cup practice saturday at Nashville Superspeedway. BOBBY REYNOLDSOver a million fewer viewers tuned in for last Sunday’s NASCAR race at Nashville Superspeedway than did for the previous year, after the telecast was switched from NBC to Prime, which requires a paid subscription.
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3 weeks ago | 
mainstreetmediatn.com | Tommy Bryan |Larry Woody
Justin Allgaier celebrates with the Gibson trophy guitar after winning the Tennessee Lottery 250 Saturday at Nashville Superspeedway. GEROGE PAGEWith his boss Dale Earnhardt Jr. cheering him on, Justin Allgaier exploded from the pack on a late-race restart and sped off to victory in Saturday night’s Tennessee Lottery 250 Xfinity Series race at Nashville Superspeedway.
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3 weeks ago | 
mainstreetmediatn.com | Tommy Bryan |Larry Woody
Green flag drops at 6 p.m.; TV broadcast on Amazon PrimeLARRY WOODYMain Street Media of TennesseeChase Briscoe sits on the pole for Sunday’s Cracker Barrel 400 at Nashville Superspeedway. GEORGE PAGECool temperatures produced some hot laps Saturday at Nashville Superspeedway as Chase Briscoe led a 12-car parade of record-breakers to capture the pole for tonight’s Cracker Barrel 400.
