TnRiver46

Every super bowl in history was better than that one.

Nice fish. Your boat is upside down!!!!!

Too crowded for me

Fished yesterday in some big wind and light snow on the Tennessee river, action wasn't crazy good but we managed some fish, including a nice smallie. Caught it with a threadfin shad on a jighead

At the top end of my home reservoir, two big rivers merge together. Yesterday one was chocolate milk and the other was pretty clear. After they flow together, there is another large tributary that flows in about 10 miles So basically the only way I can figure it out is drive around in the truck and look or phone friends that live downstream and upstream

I got my degree in wildlife management and now do wildlife damage control for a living. It's all kinds of fun, already killed a sewer rat today! Haha

I TRY to snag carp all the time and it ain't easy like people think. I would bet that the "no snagging" regs are to protect paddlefish. There are very short snagging seasons for paddlefish on Tennessee river but most other states don't allow it (Alabama for one)

Oh dear that is a bad one

You will absolutely love it once you start catching fish on jigs. All you have to do is keep throwing them and you will start catching. I know how hard that is though, I make myself throw a spinnerbait all the time and still don't have much confidence with it

Apply alcohol externally and internally in that situation

I camped/smallmouth fished below Wilson dam last march. Epic fail but there were about 50,000 other bass boats that reported similar results so I didn't feel too bad

That's pretty cool, thanks for the link. im lucky enough to live where I can see that in person about half the times I launch my boat, maybe more. Well I see the fishing part more, not so much the nest building. I think they also hunt a lot of ducks around here

Hmmm is the water clear? What's the water temp? Worms are always a good option, some of my favorite winter baits are paddle tail shad grub, fluke on a jighead, spoon/blade bait and hair jig. Jerkbiat is also good but it helps to have clear water for that. Fish tend to suspend in winter where I fish, although they can be surprisingly shallow in flats at times and a rattle bait is the ticket

Berkeley gulp minnow on 1/8 oz jig head. 2.5 inch or 3 inch

He is indeed one of the best to have ever played. But that doesn't mean I have to like him

I think he works out with a shake weight. Like one of those on that South Park episode ................

Late seeing this post, but I can give you dozens of bank fishing spots to try. Below ft loudoun dam is probably the best, although not in Knoxville it's close. There's also a couple warm water discharges that are good in winter also

I have caught lots of nice bass on dead shad. They work good on a jig head too

"Is it just me" or does this discussion seem like it came from a trout magazine?

All sounds like logical ideas to me and should work

I've always been told you do more harm than good trying to get that out of there. If I can't get the hook out I just bite the line and let him keep it. They can pass a hook

@scaleface, those are all stud smallmouth but that one on the top!!!! Holy crap

I got my degree in wildlife and fisheries management and the one thing that the professors constantly stressed when referring to "habitat" was the importance of food. In reality you could probably use the terms "habitat" and "food" interchangeably. Mammals, birds, fish, and pretty much everything make food their #1 priority. Sure they need shelter and reproduction as well, but they look for those in place near available food. The only exceptions I can come up with are maybe a buck during the rut or a salmon in freshwater, they forget about food temporarily

I think I'm pretty lousy, thus I don't fish tournaments.

19' is my favorite!!!! Funny you would say that