TnRiver46

@king fisherThere are bodies of water out west where they have attempted to eradicate lake trout with gill nets and have been completely unsuccessful. They killed 4 million in Yellowstone but they keep coming https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2021/nov/06/the-battle-against-lake-trout-yellowstone-park-bio/ fish are tougher than most people want to believe

Tell him @T-Billy

Yea I know but it’s still hilarious if you put yourself in our shoes reading it my mom said several times a week when we were young “thank god I didn’t have girls” they’ve got it rough

Nice one @The Baron!!!!

We don’t have the true shad but been getting plenty of big herring

Youre killing me tonight 😂 😂

@Eric 26, thanks buddy that’s good to know, I’d rather stay off the roads as much as I can. The stuff I saw just driving a regular pickup truck all day was quite shocking

@Eric 26, my wife is an entrepreneur so it would be nice to have some benefits but I suppose I could, but don’t really think it would work too well. A guy that used to work for us started one and he is now looking to get into real estate even tho demand is very good. You really can’t do it too long without breaking your spine, it’s constantly climbing ladders and staying on roofs or slithering under floors. The key is do like my old boss and pay some moron (me) to do all the work while he collects all the money. I can barely understand insurance let alone run a business, I just need money to live. im currently working nights in a warehouse, delivering food, and working at a kayak/paddleboard/canoe/bike rental shop. Got a pending full time gig as a bldg maintenance tech with no experience but they seem to enjoy my sparkling personality (and I knew somebody, which is always the x factor)

^that pretty much covers it! Birds and fish and otters are better at catching them than I am, and they don’t obey creel and slot limits

Golly day he did it again. Ky lake doing alright

No I meant in my boat haha. No dry storage

Ours just showed up last week when the loons left. We have enough shad to walk across so they don’t hurt anything. There is also an Osprey nest about every half mile of river and bald eagles and blue herons galore. Not to mention green heron, mergansers, egrets, ring billed gulls, the list goes on and on. My buddy works for the fed and used to get permits to eliminate cormorants at catfish farms down south but the cormorant has some friends in high places somewhere and now his permits only allow one to be taken, kind of a sarcastic joke

I hammer my lower unit into enough stumps and rocks and eventually a fish finds me

Pretty! I’d have to leave them all at home but one they’d all be “ruirnt”

Im guessing FLA, even I can get to OBX in less than 13

Well, kind of. I worked for a small business and my boss got older and refused to make any changes whatsoever. He’s now too old to run the business (memory) but won’t sell it or stop it or promote anyone or hire anyone. I always thought since I was his only employee left maybe I could take over one day but it didn’t work out like that my issue was more business related than passion related. I could work for the govt in my field and pay my bills (barely) but I’d rather starve than do that 😂

Dang @Woody B, I can change oil! Call me!! 😂 If I had grandkids I would probably discourage them from trapping skunks . Everyone told me there was no money in wildlife when I was in college but I didn’t care about money then. Still don’t but Im at the age where I kind of need some benefits going forward. funny story how I got into wildlife. I always made straight As in school but I didn’t want to go to college. I just wanted a paycheck so I could go fishing. When I graduated high school, mom said welp time to go to college. I said no thanks, she said well that’s too bad now go to college 😂. She said here is a list of majors, if you pick one instead of being undecided, you are more likely to get a scholarship. Well naturally I picked the one with the word “fish” in it (wildlife/fisheries science) and got a full ride to UT. Student loans are quite the burden on my wife and many friends so I’m grateful I avoided any of that mess. I made it quite a while on extra low salary and learned a skill, just time for something else I reckon. If it wasn’t for health insurance costs I could probably ride it out til the end

@Pat Brown, ole RB is sitting in 21st place in that tourney I posted the pic from on KY lake right now with 16.5 lbs. Also excellent point on the hasty bans, Kentucky lake is a good case study. They placed some sort of live bait restriction there (you can still fish with but can’t move it I believe) because they said juvenile Asian carp look too much like threadfin shad. Fast forward a few years and there have been 0 (zero) juvenile Asian carp in Ky lake whatsoever. Maybe a good preemptive measure but also good example they don’t really know what’s going on. They made a rule for something that doesn’t exist based on political pressure, money, and worry

Asian carp “ruined” this lake. That was so 2 yrs ago

I do it all the time, but I’ve sure got more than one. Many trips I just take one, especially in little kayaks. And as yall probably already know, it’s a spinning rod with a jighead on it. Interchange worm, tiny fluke, or paddle tail on the jighead. They WILL bite one of them

They still brought in some bass over 24” to weigh in but not a whole bunch. When I was camping at lake for 18 yrs ago a guy told me he was snagging slot fish off beds and eating them.

Don’t look now, John cox in second place at lake amistead with 27 lbs and no live sonar

Theres a little tiny pond we used to instruct fly casting on. You could catch a bluegill and two 5 lb bass would eat them off your line and usually break the line, jump and spit it , etc. They eventually became conditioned to follow anyone that was fly casting around the pond. They also followed the guys weedeating because it scared frogs into the water. We showed a young kid the trick and he did it a few times a week and those bass or bluegill wouldn’t touch a hook after that and totally quit following us 😂

I still like skunks I just needed more cash. Bout 1 out of 50 of them is problematic tho

@gimruis, they were in Hawaii , I couldn’t exactly understand what was going on. It seemed like they had gone feral 😂