Matt holding a largemouth at night on Chickamauga Lake

Trip log · Chickamauga Lake · June 4–7, 2025

Sale Creek & Birchwood: Night Shift

A four-day Chickamauga run through Sale Creek and Birchwood, with a late-night largemouth opening the photo record and miles of mixed road-and-water evidence behind it.
Photo record17June 4–6
Tracked movement448.4 miAll recorded motion
Estimated truck≈359 miHighway + local road segments
Estimated boat≈90 miMixed on-water segments

Day-by-day evidence

What the track and camera can prove.

01
Wed · Jun 4

Gallatin to Sale Creek—and a 10:47 p.m. largemouth

Timeline records the run through Middle Tennessee into the Sale Creek area. The first fishing photograph lands late that night.

02
Thu · Jun 5

Sale Creek to Birchwood

The track reaches the Birchwood/Hiwassee side before returning to Sale Creek. Album frames document the midday dock and lakeside evening.

03
Fri · Jun 6

Another Chickamauga day

Morning and afternoon movement stays around the Sale Creek section, with additional fishing photographs through 5:24 p.m.

04
Sat · Jun 7

The ride home

The return track runs north and west toward Gallatin. A Timeline gap near the end is included in the mileage confidence note.

Distance confidence

Useful numbers. Honest labels.

Google recorded 448.4 miles of activity. Because boat movement is labeled as passenger-vehicle travel, truck and boat figures are estimates derived from time, route, and lake position; the combined tracked total is the authoritative number.

Location privacy

The lake section is public. The dot is not.

Catch and basecamp coordinates remain private. Public labels stop at Sale Creek, Birchwood, and the Hiwassee side of Chickamauga.