TnRiver46

Another funny story about those magnets. My buddy’s kids were instructed not to touch the magnet to anything heavy. Well they come into the house and say “daddy the magnet got stuck to the lawn mower but we didn’t do it.” He said the 100 ft orange rope strung all the way across the yard leading directly to the mower disagreed with their story . He had to wail on the magnet with a hammer to get it free from the mowing deck

The calendar doesn’t say fall until sept 22……. my wife dabbles in witchcraft so I know these things

Jerkbait mostly, but the ones near my dock dont ignore anything. It’s hard to get them to see the bait but if they do, they are snapping at it. Had one go crazy for a fluke on Saturday as well . Hard part is hooking them, usually they just get their snout wrapped in the line best method for me is to wait to cast until you see one gulp air and cast quickly to it. As soon as they gulp they submarine back down so it has to be timed perfectly, you’ve only got a couple seconds . The best shot is when they gulp twice consecutively . Just try to make sure you put it right on them, above the head. I don’t think they can see very far. a dead bluegill will almost always get bit even without sight fishing but they will swim all over creation holding it in their mouth like a dog with a bone and when you pull tight they just let it go

I love some ice water, I usually drink a 40 oz hydro flask of water 6-8 times a day tonight’s drink is the famous grouse

I was walking one of our dogs this morning and she wouid have dragged a canoe ! nice bass, love the zaras

Chased gar all day, they were biting but missed them all. Had to catch a bass so I didn’t get skunked

@bulldog1935, there’s a statue of Sam outside my office 😂

I’ve seen my buddy and his kids doing it, they usually get nails and screws and parts of ratchet straps

I jumped into Lake Superior for maybe 6-8 minutes and had 4 leeches

@GRiver, that’s money in the bank. A black worm can also slay them

@Tennessee Boy, just linked the post with fish pics @gimruis, I have fished there my whole life and never had a tick, not sure what happened this time but they got me

45-47, not sure because we can’t count as well as @ol'crickety, even when me make an effort to count them all. Couple of them larger than normal for that spot.

They were ironically not on my ankles , knees to belly button covered solid . The itching was violent, couldn’t sleep 4 -5 nights in a row . Finally slept all night last night

Weather predictors been stealing everyone’s money for decades

I do it without mapping or 2D 😂. I deal with enough electricity at work you can tell where the drop offs are using a spoon and the channel marker red/green buoys

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Love a positive update!

@J Francho, I don’t know but we were swimming and wading so much I would guess it washes off

Yall are killing me! 😂 @Kev-mo, there are lots of them! Most aren’t willing to swim, fall down, wade for 10 hours, and be destroyed by parasites so I’m not terribly worried about naming the place, although my cousin might kill me if I did

We should have never sent Sam Houston, Jon sevier and the boys to save Texas from Mexico……. 😂 now they wanna claim they are the real UT, though the university of TN existed before Texas was even a state

@gimruis, seems like they had a tag lottery for an extremely limited amount of kills a few years back , not sure if it still goes on. They are historically native to the area, were gone for a long time, and were reintroduced around the year 2000(ish) I think. Several in the Great smoky mtns national park had radio tracking collars on and weren’t the least bit frightened by people, they would walk straight up to you if I had to guess, they were thriving back when the native Americans used to burn the vegetation. Then when Europeans suppressed all fires the habitat became thick woods not as suitable for grazing

You could throw a spear and kill one around here. I took the middle photo from a ladder rack on top of a truck, thing scared me to death