TnRiver46

The muddy maumee. There's another member on here that can tell you all about that river but his name escapes me.

My brother lives in Philly! I think he kayaks near the Delaware bay but usually just paddling not casting

Ah. Thanks

Smart play, nice job catching fish from the safety of dry land

How clear is the water you are fishing? 10-12 lb mono will work for most any purpose. If it's stained or muddy with vegetation put braid on one of your rigs

Spin frogs, you say?

A fan revolt denies a coach being hired??? I'm sharpening my pitchforks and wrapping torches. The common man's voice grew into legislators and politicians voices. Wild day. Knoxville: the ultime democracy!

I have never been glad that the season was over. Until now

I'm not great with dropping it straight on them but I have caught largemouth casting a similar rig against the bank. Great for clear water. A lot of times the reason it is geared toward smallies because they are wolfpacking around eating shad in open water and can be found with electronics easier than the largemouth, which behave a little more like a grouper hiding in shipwreck or mangroves. The lure/rig will catch any species when they see it, the tactic just marries up more closely with open water smallmouth packs

6 ft of leader is plenty. Just slowly twitch the mouse across scum or grass. Or throw it way under a dock and bring it out quick. Always experiment with retrieve speed and cadence

Not sure what it's called but for some reason the one with a dark blue back and orange belly outperforms all the others for me. I don't have many of them though, so I haven't experimented with lots of colors. I use x rap because it's the only one that actually suspends for under $10

+1 It doesn't matter what color the jig is........ as long as it's black and blue!!! It doesn't matter what color your worm is....... as long as it's purple!!!

Texas rig worm and jig

I have 3 crossfires, one of them I got for $2.99 at academy. The only downside is the hook-keeper, whoever invented those things should be publicly flogged. I have to bend them down on every single rod they make nowadays and sometimes it's not that easy. Filing them down seems to work best

You can use a willow branch with a few micro guides, thread and epoxy. Seriously though I get mine at academy sports, shimano makes the ones they have now. They have different ones every year, daiwa used to have good ones called "crossfire" for $20

Never worry about being broke. You know the camel fitting through the eye of a needle thing........

The highest end rod I have is $20. I usually go with the $12.99 ones though.

Those are good tough rods, especially the flipping sticks. What kind of reel is it? I have never seen a Berkley reel

sometimes the drag is locked down so tight on a baitcaster that it puts tension on the reel handle. Not sure if this is possible with a spinning reel but try loosening and tightening the drag a few times and see if that helps. Also you can add oil/grease to help them out

I remember you smearing that goop on a rattle trap and jigging it like a blade bait last fall........... very very sneaky sir........

Just throw the baits in a can of coffee and shake em around real good. Leave them in there for a day or week or however long you need to. Problem solved!

Largemouth: Texas rig zoom swamp crawler(8lb) 3/4 oz silver buddy (8lb) cheap buzz bait (8 lb) black/blue jig (7lb) Live threadfin shad (6lb) smallmouth: Bitsy tube (5-6 lb) chrome blue back ratLtrap (5lb) Shakey head zoom dead ringer(5 lb) live shad (lots of 4-5 lbers) live stonerollers (lots of 4-5 lbers)

Cool dude, I think I recognize your screename from another site. I fished tellico today and got tiny bass

Oh yea man he basically peed his pants when they started him in the swamp against Florida. He threw one pass backwards, no defender near him.

Well The vols can't get a worse coach than the last one........... oh I said that last time we hired a new coach??? Well crap