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If you’re in the TN river drainage I’d guess those are blue cats. They sucks up the slow and injured and anything else they can get in their mouths.

Base + base times height then divide by two for 8 and 9 if I remember right. Basically those shapes equate to a rectangle with the height given and the avg of the top and bottom for the other sides. 12 and 13 are base times height, just like a square. Parallelograms are parallelograms

Not a shocker that the range would be significantly reduced by towing, especially with the base battery. It seemed like every other part of the experience was extremely positive. It’s come a long way since the original Prius and will continue.

That was a long time to hold a phone up. Never understood people putting weight in fish in modern tourneys.

I always thought the blue cats in the Potomac were worse than the snakeheads. Those blues would slims up three feet of line and crush any hooks. Both really good eating though!

I like to amaze my wife by listening to Southern accents and telling her what state they’re from. Sometimes I can even call the area of the state. It’s a totally useful skill.

Elk chops or chicken fried squirrel. Little fellas in my backyard don’t know how close they are…

We have a three year old lab and two four year old cats (Bryce Harper and Weeks). Side note - Do NOT let young children name your pets. The dog thinks she’s a cat. The cats do not agree with that assessment. The dog will jump straight up in the air when she sees a robin or squirrel within range. Just about broke my face when I leaned over to pick up a gift on a walk. Head butted me right across the nose. Dogs are great ?

Banana, mango, and vanilla ice cream all mixed together. It’s like a tropical fruit but in a southern hardwood forest.

That is the mother lode of pawpaws! Ain’t nothing better - you find them recently?

That’s my neck of the woods - I grew up in Fayette County. Used to be the 2nd poorest county in TN - lots of space out there. Should be really great for the area.

An almost 4lb fish out of a creek in urban Charlotte I could walk across and not get my shorts wet. Looked like it came out of a painting.

That’s south of Nashville on the plateau. Smallmouth rivers and bass lakes.

What part/lake in Tennessee? Reelfoot and South Holstein fish markedly different.

Real specific - Rendevouz dry rubbed ribs with greens and fried okra. otherwise - leftover spaghetti. I make the sauce.

I would agree with @Choporoz above, and probably would’ve let him finish in that little cove nugget before going in there. It all depends where you’re fishing. I’m happy to have boats close and I’ll even share baits. If they’re fishing that close I probably know what I’m doing better than they do and use it as a opportunity to teach or share other spots.

Same here on Navionics; some days I could just use it and not need to turn on my sonar.

Scratching out your scratches?

A pretty good bit, but I’d leave the scratches vs trying to sand them out. Big difference in a lake boat in Florida and a river boat in TN/NC/VA. You’d spend three days sanding for every three hours fishing.

You might look at 3M 5200 Marine Sealant or one of their less permanent options. I know for a fact that 5200 works great at holding things together

That’s pretty cool stuff in a pretty boat on a pretty lake. I will not call you pretty, but glad you got out for some AJ time. Love the growl of that 200…

I grew up in Memphis in the 80’s and early 90’s. My dad owned a liquor store near the Mall of Memphis, which was nicknamed the Mall of Murder (it has its own Wikipedia page). It’s the same as it ever was. I used to walk to the mall from my dad’s store to play video games or see a movie. I never had a problem. That said, I wouldn’t do it at night. I live in Charlotte now and there’s places here I stay out of unless there’s a reason, but it’s nowhere near what the bad parts of Memphis or DC were like. It’s something that every place has, and has had, and will have , forever. There is no Eutopia. The best you can do is be a good person, teach you and yours to be good people, and help where you can with social programs.

Generally white oaks have rounded lines on the leaves and larger acorns. Red oak leaves are pointed and they have smaller acorns, sometimes down to pea sized.

Also - it’s end of summer. I thought the fishing was terrible this year but the last couple days have been fantastic. Good days are soon…

I think I’m getting dumber, but I can’t look away…