TnRiver46

Winter in Connecticut? I can’t help ya there

They are numerous, winter time is the best time

I lose count around 4ish

You know it! Bout to get good

Got two LMB around 21” which was totally unexpected! SMB were fairly normal compared to other years, lots of good ones. Caught a couple nice stripers. Barely caught any of the evil Alabama spotted bass so I guess that’s good? Business as usual. Still got over a month of great fishing to go yet

Personally I use the reel handle to retrieve a lipless crank……

Edited for @T-Billy, #punctuation matters

I had to wait in line forever at the bathroom, had it been a BM they would have been in trouble. Still the worst gas station in America in all categories

@Team9nine, that looks like a tasty sandwich !!!

@LrgmouthShad= big carboard checks

Habitat is indeed the key. Hartwell is another good example. It’s never good to move invasive species to new waters but I’ve lost count of all the ones that were going to be the end of us all and they eventually settled into a niche or disappeared all together. We have several fish in East TN that are actually in peril, unlike LMB and SMB. Those fish are all minnows and their habitat has dwindled for years and years . Several are or have been on the threatened and endangered species list. The last flood might have wiped out the last chucky madtom on the planet, but hopefully not. They deserve way more funding than fighting the Pandora’s box of Alabama bass that has already been opened, but guess which one sells better to people with big money: The invasive species boogey man that will ruin it all (or may not)

Still plenty of nice bass caught on KY and Barkley lake . They could stop the carp immediately by closing the locks, but then their grant money to fight them dries up. Lots of good threads about it on here, they still have yet to find a single juvenile Asian carp in TN river so they are all swimming thru locks with zero reproduction.

Hahahah, that has already started @A-Jay 😂 if I got as much snow as where you live, I would just have to cut tiny walking paths thru it, a snow blower costs more than the vehicles I drive 😂

I think I’ve seen Donny Most rise from that mist…….

The scientific method involves testing ideas that can be contradictory, that’s the beauty of it . Usually a lot easier to come to conclusions when you leave emotions at the door

The idiot you are “arguing” with has a degree in fisheries science

manual labor is my favorite, still chop wood with an axe 😂. Somebody asked me what would be my dream job the other day, I said shoveling gravel or chopping wood haha

This fisheries biologists thinks that they will outcompete native fish in some places and not in others, because that has already happened . There are several places other than guntersville where the Alabama bass is present but not king. We’ve got a member on here that fishes Norman/wylie and catches lots of Alabama bass. But he also catches lots of large LMB. Sure the alabamas may outcompete them, but just assuming they will takeover forever because they have in some other locations is bad science. Precaution can be helpful but blanket statements never hold true. Every body of water is a case study, seems to me like the places they will thrive best are lakes with blueback herring, deep clear tributary lakes like Fontana, and some shallow swift rivers . The Asian carp was going to destroy all fishing in middle America and the Great Lakes, until it didn’t . They like doom and gloom but fish are tough

Alabama bass are not native to guntersville. They are native to coosa river, not TN river . They were only recently named “Alabama bass,” they were formerly known as coosa river sub species of spotted bass, hence micropterus coosae

We are supposed to get a little snow later this week, had 4 inches on mt leconte over a month ago

@Swamp Girl, thanksgiving presents ?

You always catch little minnows , when you gonna try for some big ones ?

I wouldn’t say nearly every body of water, plenty of them coexist happily like guntersville. It’s mostly blueback herring lakes where they dominate. Here in my area they have only thrived in the ocoee, which was pretty well fishless until the spots started thriving, they had an opportunity. Lot of unfounded fears similar to the Asian carp that were going to destroy a billion dollar fishing industry. Instead they never showed up

You don’t have to twist my arm mister May!

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