TnRiver46

Never fished eufala but a lot of the lakes I fish, the creeks will hold Shad all winter. When the afternoon sun hits the creeks they can warm up quicker. I would drive into several creeks and compare their water temps to main channel water temps. I net a lot of Shad for bait and can almost always get them in creeks. Sometimes when it's real cold the creeks are frozen or close to it and the main channel is warmer. Like posted above, some bass never Leave the main and some never leave the creeks. Also, on eufala you probably have gizzard and threadfin Shad. The threadfin die off when it's super cold but the bass will still eat them while they are dying and dead. The gizzards will tolerate much colder water and don't seem to die off nearly as often

Some days they just don't bite. Maybe downsize line and bait when the temp drops. Also a suspending jerkbait sitting still for long periods can work

Strike King bitsy tube is also your friend. Shove a 1/8 oz jig head up into it

I think The video was shot in New Mexico

Northern lakes are so cool, we don't have natural lakes in East Tennessee. At least we rarely have ice!!!

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Good water is everywhere, that's for sure. There are even big smallies that live in the river in pigeon forge

I sure have, we always went to them in high school

I'm very glad we don't have turnover where I live

Largemouth. My girlfriend has caught hundreds of each and still doesn't know the difference Hahahaha. Smallmouth brown largemouth green and black

Still a little too hot here in Tennessee for the best frogging but it is working.

Amen to that. And this year there is no current!!!

East Tennessee (no natural lakes) fishing on reservoirs is toughest for me in the summer. July August and some of sept (with the exception of a daylight top water bite). Winter time is excellent fishing on our reservoirs. The shallow fast rivers upstream of the reservoirs are the exact opposite, they are about useless in the dead of winter but fish awesome in the hottest conditions.

Thank you thank you! Taking the canoe out this evening for some small lake frog fishing

The stick marsh and Kissimmee chain of lakes in Florida have a lot of PBs swimming around, maybe get some Golden shiners and fish the kicker trails

Thanks fellas

I will die happy if I can say "all the bass I have caught over 15 lbs" second thought I will die happy if I can say "that one bass I caught over 10 lbs"

When my boat is getting blown around like that I cast a large grub on a jig head and just let the wind blow and hang on. Bass love 15-25 feet year round and it will be down there somewhere in that range with the tail swimming. Good way to cover a lot of water, like trolling without using gas or battery

I joined this site about a week ago and what a wealth of information. I live in Knoxville and mainly fish the Tennessee River and its tributaries. I enjoy seeing all of the big bass pictures from all over the country and look forward to posting some of my own. Go VOLS.

I would guess over 6 lb maybe 7

Good gravy

Bomber long A

Those look like fall Giants to me!

I rarely use one but fish with several buddies that do and both methods work very well. In either case, I only move the jig enough to keep it off bottom when the bait is alive. Then once it is dead I give it more jigging action as if it were a soft plastic lure.

I had a lot of fun kayak fishing a natural lake in NW Michigan on vacation once. I have also enjoyed inshore saltwater kayaking in several parts of Florida. My favorite is still East Tennessee rivers for smallmouth bass (heavily biased opinion)