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Forecast just says “Smoke”

Here too. At least it smells good. Makes me wanna throw a dog on the grill.

The original of this song is one of my favorite songs of all time. And although Luke Combs is not an artist I’d ever imagine myself listening to, this cover is incredible.

@Pat Brown Awesome dude. You’re on a roll. Giant!

I like to put it on a bare football head for smallies. No skirt or brush guard.

I like to match my bullet to the color of the bait, but I don’t sweat it too much. I don’t think it affects much besides confidence.

The Braves have resumed their regular scheduled programming of absolutely mashing.

Some of the main reasons I use a fluorocarbon leader would be completely negated if I used just regular fluoro line as the leader. Fluoro leader material is stiffer, stronger and more abrasion-resistant. It never touches the spool, so the stiffness really helps for the applications I use it for. I never use regular fluorocarbon as my leader. One of my fishing “rules” that I make for myself.

@T-Billy I’ve seen the monsters you pull out of the waters you fish. Id like to keep all my toes.

Today on things I didn’t expect to see on BassResource

Thats what pools are for! Not a chance I’m getting in a lake or river.

I hate fishing the stringy grass stuff. Like naiad or stonewort. It'll jam the TM props instantly. Frogging is the only thing I've found to be effective. Ya need a heavy weight to punch it, but even then the stuff is so stringy it just envelopes the bait completely on the way down. Its so shallow rooted (or not at all) that you cant work a bait through it without pulling a huge clump in. So if I have to fish it I stay on top with a frog. But fish seem to prefer milfoil or hydrilla or pondweed is what I tell myself.

Only problem is now there is a toxic, narcissistic void that needs to be filled. And if there is anything I learned from the time when I had co-workers, it’s that the void will inevitably be filled by another toxic narcissist. It seems to be the only way. Hopefully it works out differently for you because addition by subtraction in the workplace can be a huge boost of morale. That is until the chaff is replaced by more chaff.

@Darth-Baiter I grew a watermelon last year. Inside was all cucumber.

@TnRiver46 I think the ones we had finally packed up and moved out from our yard. Can’t live under the shed any more so they probably moved to a neighbors shed. I’m finally able to harvest some vegetables!

@thediscochef dang. I’m on a round of doxycycline from a tick bite myself. Make sure you cover up when on the water - the stuff makes you super prone to sunburns.

It may be the best consistently. An argument can also be made for the St. Lawrence River. Those are probably the 2 best smallmouth fisheries consistently. But there are several others that have crazy years. Right now the finger lakes are popping off. And there is always the TVA reservoirs, the Snake River, and Lake St. Clair that all could be the best on any given year. A new world record could come from any of them.

Floated a small river today after some smallmouth. This river is all about numbers. Never caught anything over 16” here, but the fish are very willing biters so it’s easy to catch 75 smallmouth in a day. Wasn’t quite that good today. Between a buddy and I we boated 25 little smallmouth up to 14”. So much fun on light tackle with how acrobatic these river smallies are. Tiny poppers, rooster tails, crankbaits and ned rigs were the baits we threw. 90% of my fish came on a Rapala UL Pop. Also got a bunch of nicely colored longears, pumpkinseeds, and rock bass. Been so wrapped up in going after a new PB, so this was a nice little reset to float a calm river and go after numbers.

Never broke a rod on a hookset. Low ceilings have sent a few to their grave though.

@FishTax I’ll throw a spinnerbait any time of year, any time of day, dead calm to white caps, sunny to pouring rain. Never a wrong time to throw one.

I was humbled a week or so ago. Been almost a decade since my last hooking, so I had been complacent. Unhooking a tiny little bass on a PopX not being careful, and I ended up with 2 points of treble buried in the loose skin between the thumb and index. Could have been avoided if I remembered that it can happen to any fisherman at any time if they aren’t careful. And whenever there is tension on the line, I’m cognizant of where it’s pointed in case of a return-to-sender deal. Good PSA and glad you’re ok Phish.

40lb braid main to 25lb fluorocarbon leader.

Watermelon? Absolutely. The lime juice thing sounds good. Have a watermelon that I’m gonna slice into tonight and try it with the lime.

Check out @Paul RobertsYoutube Channel called “The Nature of Fishing”. He fishes in Colorado and there is so much to learn from his videos. They should help instill some confidence in you fishing in Colorado.

This is where time on the water is so important. You can teach someone how to cast, you can teach someone where to cast. But once the bait hits the water, it’s then up to the angler himself to develop that sense through trial and error. How to work the bait, what a bite feels like, being in tune with your bait as it’s running through the water column out of your line of sight. Those are all things that are hard to teach but somewhat easily picked up through time on the water.