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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

Go big orange

I still use the stren clear blue fluorescent, I believe they just slap a BPS excel label on it now. Put the 12 lb on a baitcaster and you are set, it would take a might strong bass to break it. I’ve hauled 20 lb stripers in with it, in raging current below a dam

I had to do aquatic plant ID in college and it was a nightmare. It’s much easier to just ask @Team9nine what you are looking at

@Woody B, there is one sure fire way to tell if a fish is full of eggs, the rest is just semantics

Monster ! Our 21-22” SMB are even lighter but every now and then one is fat . Those long lean ones fight like the devil

@T-Billy, she made a pie a few years ago and she didn’t like it because “it tasted like pawpaws” 😂. I got to eat the whole pie tho so no sweat off my back.

The only thing memorable I’ve had happen with a spinner bait is hitting my dad on the top of the head with one circa 1990

Unfortunately I don’t got this haha. Been at it since ‘87

My wife made pawpaw ice cream , it was good !