TnRiver46

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!

The greatest era is today, followed closely by the future

Congrats @casts_by_fly!!!! Great shot great buck

Snakeheads haven’t harmed anything and didn’t spread like they thought, biologists don’t have crystal balls but they like it when people donate to the cause Alabama clearly thinks the tournaments can control them, the proposed slot applies ONLY to tournaments, regular joes can still kill 10 bass a day of any size

So to control them in areas they are considered invasive, they just need some bass tournaments haha wont matter to me, I eat them in Alabama river (fed by coosa and tallapoosa) and don’t fish tournaments

Ivie

Alabama is now proposing a slot for tournaments only to protect the Alabama bass, and here we thought they were too prolific ? 😂

6 bass is a banner day here unless you are up in a river smallie fishing where you can catch dozens of dinks

I like the regular

“This is the way”

Fussiness certainly occurs across the board, fly tackle seems indestructible with the reels being submersible. So closing the rod in the car door or strong winds are the few times I get too fussy with it. Days where SMB are only biting bottom dredging tactics are another time I would prefer a faster rod (gear)

Just talked to a guy at work that replaced a thermo couple on a his propane heater at home for about $50 and fixed it

Mercury Morris can crack the champagne