TnRiver46

My rapalas are reusable and I live on the water 😂 and I have a freezer

@Functional, scissors and harpoons are the ones that work. Unfortunately you can buy a couple dozen other kinds, potions, and noise makers that don’t work at all but they sell like hotcakes

Yeah you do. You have to pay your tab

I couldn’t handle being stuck in such a loop. I have dreams like that over and over and it’s no fun at all

Because spawning fish are extremely difficult to catch, it can take an hour to get a single fish from what I’ve heard. You can catch a limit and be culling in that amount of time on a school of feeding fish

Smallmouth tastes exactly like largemouth

Are you my uncle? 😂

I think I’ve eaten 4 drum, not good but not awful. I’d have to be broke down and busted to do it regularly but I’d take drum over carp, buffalo, etc i haven’t grilled one skin side down yet, I’ve heard that’s the way to go . then again I’ve had people tell me hundreds of times to cut the two rocks out of a drum’s head but I’ve never found them. Seemed like an old fashioned snipe hunt but somebody showed me jewelry they made out of them! Haha saltwater red drum?? Delicious

Torrential downpour is a very normal occurrence here, toss the purple worm at ‘em

@PhishLI, unfortunately that isn’t going to slow them down at all. My buddy runs an auto shop and his tow truck driver was shot and killed the other day by somebody who had been arrested tons of times. I imagine the poaching penalties are far less severe than what folks like that get charged with on a regular basis

I’ve eaten some big healthy ones, not just smalls. The only reason people don’t want you keeping big ones (in a majority of case studies, there are exceptions) is because they really like them and don’t want them dead. No biology or science behind it. They’ve already passed on their genes many times. That’s why a majority of lakes have a length minimum for keeping fish, not a length maximum. The small fish are the future, not the big ones. There are exceptions but not a ton of them. Departments of natural resources can be swayed by public opinions of fishermen as they are the customers and DNR likes to keep customers happy People are always blown away with how good black bass taste. They’ve been told for years about how nasty they taste by tournament anglers

I led the horse to water and he’s finally taking a sip……

Starting? Been doing it for 30 yrs

I reeled in a nice LM and several large carp with 4 lb Shakespeare mono that sat in my shed and then my boat for a total of about a decade. There is no expiration my buddy hauled in a 20 lb striper with his dads spinning rod that had been sitting idly since the 70s, he didn’t put fresh line on it 😂

I have some of both, leave no water unexplored

Good work, take no prisoners

I’ve never been unfortunately 😂 . if you know the right cattle farmer you might be able to stumble into such a pond. We had access to one when I was a kid where you could always get a hold of a monster, seems like a 12lb came out of there. I caught a 6 lb and saw two of my buddies catch the same 8 lber. That one had no management, I think its shallow depth was the magical X factor.

I’m told they like live bait

Well what was all that “don’t know where but wanna go” talk ??? 😂

Small lakes/ponds in the middle to western part of either state my buddy knows a guy in middle TN that manages a pond, requiring all fish under 2 lbs be killed and stocks with baitfish. They hook an 8-10 every time they go

Yep! The statistical majority of snake deaths are young men that own venomous snakes 😂. Imagine that don’t poke the bear

Looks like some bog in Maine……

“Yeah doc, it’s an old fishing injury”

I’ve got to side with @casts_by_fly on the trick worm snake , everything about the photo says banded waterssnake to me A good way to distinguish is in the name, the snake on the trick worm has bands almost like bracelets, whereas the copperhead photo posted has overlapping hour glass blotches, but not bands that encircle the dorsal side in rows