TnRiver46

My friend calls the gold and black “search and destroy” and the silver and black “vampira “

The bird used forward facing sonar, the horror!!!! They must limit the birds transducers immediately . You can’t use a corked bat in baseball after all!

Gosh where to start?? wheeler and Wilson dams are where some monster SMB like to live. Ive never fished elk river but id bet your standard fare of grubs tubes jigs poppers and small cranks would wear them out. I really do well in small waters with marabou jigs and of course plastic worms. Dale hollow is amazing, lots of deep clear water full of baitfish and bass, if fishes best in winter and there are tons of kayaks . Tims ford might be a good one to look into as well

Hard to beat that lineup

Carl Jacumsen has now made the bassmaster classic because fothergill double qualified. Congrats Carl! #fearmyheart

He certainly could, but it would have to jump over a dam and swim several miles up a creek to find it…….. I actually used a live rock bass for bait in a deep pool yesterday for 3-4 casts, then I released it because we had to keep walking /swimming

Slayed bass with a crappie jig similar to what he’s tying there on the top video

Went joyriding with the wife today along some crazy mountain road neither of us had ever been on, luckily it ended up just above a dam where I had been before and I got to stop and fish. Tossed a fluke and saw some small bass and one large one. They chased but wouldn’t hit it. Went back to the car and grabbed a senko , got it fairly quick blind casting with 50 lb seaguar tactix and a 4/0 gamakatsu nano alpha round bend hook also got a rock bass in a different spot in a small creek, picture just for @gimruis. Missed/spooked many smallmouth in the creek also saw a cool waterfall that was fairly dried up

Wish I would have gotten some measurements/weight on that one! I had just mounted a 24” 8 lb from TX the year before and I guessed that fish about the same so we just got a pic and let it go. Now when I see the pics I’m thinking doggone it looks bigger 😂 thing pulled like dump truck

I learned it from folks like you , the type that keep a canoe by the water ready for topwater fishin!

One of the greatest !!

Ironically a fight I won’t forget happened yesterday. Luckily my buddy started recording . The fish took a 1/16 oz black marabou jig in clear water, never felt the bite but I saw it flaring its gills and set the hook. The fight was crazy because of the jumps and also the fish buried itself into a rock cave and I had to wade out to free it. You can see it shoot between the two rocks after it comes free and jump yet again. Hardest fighting bass I can remember was a big LM in cold water 2 days after Christmas. I had just picked up my buddy’s rod and made a cast , this fish buried the rod against the side of the boat and I had to push the thumbar and let it take some line or I would have been pulled overboard off the front deck ! 😂. Gotta love it

Made it a point to do some wilderness fishing only accessible swim/wade this time of year . A brief 45 minute hike 2 miles downstream of the car and we hit the water. We ended up with 45-47 fish between the 3 of us and a couple fairly nice ones including what I think was a meanmouth. Also got lots of smallies , a largemouth, some rock bass , redbreast sunfish and green sunfish .