TnRiver46

Magical disappearing act

If the big fish is a drum, it’s all skill and I’ve got it 😂

Nuggets own the lakers

Ain’t no bourbon as good as lagavulin

Had an interesting fun fishing trip on Super Bowl Sunday. The water was incredibly swift, my buddy with his robot trolling motor and spot lock was fishing nearby and the spot lock was no match. I beached my craft in an eddy and started casting a swimbait. Whilst doing so, I noticed a bunch of shad swimming by. Got the trusty cast net out and got some, then deployed one on a jighead. Something took off with it and swam really fast, I thought surely a striper. After a few good runs in the current, I got some video rolling. Some bald eagles were up in a nest nearby, noisily cheering me on. If you turn the volume up on the video , you can hear them well. I took this as a sign that the eagles would win the Super Bowl, go birds! When I finally got the fish near the boat, it turned out to be a medium sized drum. They aren’t typically that fast but this one sure was ! I then caught another small drum and decided to go try something else for a bit. Found a slower spot tucked in behind a bridge pillar and tried some night crawlers. My first fish was a nice shellcracker that I let go. Then I got a couple nice bluegill and a yellow perch that I also let go. Well they just kept biting so I decided to start keeping some and ended with nice little mess of tasty fillets. A largemouth even decided to show up and bite a nightcrawler. After I ran out of nightcrawlers, I went back down to the eddy where the drum were. This time I got an even bigger 26” drum but it didn’t fight nearly as hard as the first one. Cleaned the fish and froze the fillets, took a shower and made it to a Super Bowl party in the nick of time. Water temp was 48 the blooper pics near the bottom are a goose that identified as a pigeon, trying to nest on a bridge 60-70 feet off the ground. And an accidental photo of a shellcracker that flipped up right when I hit the button

I think we all know why you didn’t hook up in the first part of that video when they were jumping all around, because you threw a spinnerbait! That footage proves the uselessness of that lure beyond the shadow of a doubt! 😂 in addition to @softwateronly’s spoon suggestion, a weightless fluke can sometimes trigger them. I’d even toss a spook/popper into that madness, I’ve seen hundreds of white bass ignore everything but walk the dog action many times

Knecht trade canceled? What the heck ?

You can actually fix stupid, it’s just illegal

I’ve dragged my boat upstream trying to break 15 invisix. Also sliced my hand with it, something seems odd. I definitely had a learning curve when I first started using it, casts a lot differently than mono

Watch Andy Morgan casting around some docks or trees sometime , he’s a magician. Left or right, no difference

Cut ya a chunk and take it down to the root cellar

Either

Well, as it turns out, they only scheduled one tournament 😂

So they have to video the fish swimming away? I didn’t know that, watched many kayak tourneys on YouTube and they rarely video the release

I like to see the fish at a weigh in. Kayak tournament competitors could slit a fish’s gills after the photo or photograph a dead fish and nobody would know they aren’t lifeless at the weigh ins I have attended, they are usually going bananas and hard to hold onto

My buddy is one of the guys that has to euthanize the entire flock

Went for a paddle this evening and caught some gizzard shad in my net but couldn’t get any bites on those. Tried a straight tail soft plastic and got 3 crappie, two keepers. Yum

Wowza

What we need is more rock bass, redeye, goggle eye photos…… oh no I’ve said too much

One of the greatest to come from planet earth. 🎶 wish I had some guitar strings, ole black diamond brand. I’d string up this ole Martin box, go and join some band 🎶

That’s awesome, my brother has been freezing cold ever since he got cancer. Great idea and great quilt

Lakers traded my boy Dalton knecht, thank goodness

^is that your rest day emoji? 😂

We had dinner with friends scheduled at 6:30, figured I would squeeze in a short trip to quarry from 5-6. Caught 5, all the exact same size. I’ve fished here for 3 or 4 years and never caught a bass of any different size haha. One of them had some black markings, pretty cool. Its eyes were bugged out too, I think I pulled it from way deep. It swam straight back down vertically when I let it go. Some parts of the quarry your lure never hits the bottom so no clue how deep. Fun way to pass an hour

I’ve long armed short armed and everything inbetween. If you get the whole fish in the picture , you’ve done well. Bonus points if you post in on bass resource