TnRiver46

Always pack your protractor for fishing trips to achieve 112.5 degrees 😂

Merry Christmas, my crapper was full

@JustinJ, st croix GXR

@Team9nine, I think most of our highland lakes such as Norris and Cherokee are at 1000ft elevation and stay much warmer but they are massive and have long retention time. We also have chilhowee and tellico that stay fairly constant temp in winter because they are fed by the water coming out of the bottom of Fontana dam which is like 400 feet deep. Douglas is a wildcard because it’s the first dam on the French broad, lots of untamed water comes into that massive reservoir, I’ve seen it frozen thick enough where people were driving ATVs on it ironically the highland lakes typically stay warmer than the TN river in the bottom of the valley, the shallow swift waters cool faster than the ultra deep still waters

Good report @Team9nine, weather has been quite nice. It seems odd to me since you’ve moved that your water temps are consistently lower than mine, I’m guessing that’s a result of smaller bodies of water ? Or maybe that’s you’re just on the shady side of the hills

If you ain’t yakkin’ you’re slackin’ Yesterday I had my boat hooked up to my truck and charged batteries, ready to go. I opted for the canoe for some exercise and was rewarded with a 21.5” SMB.

Our janitors get stuck in the elevators at work ALL THE TIME

Old speckled hen ?

December and September are always the best for SMB ! i used to get the week between Christmas and new years off work and had some crazy good fishing excursions . I have to work now but still try for an hour after work or weekends days are getting longer now !

Went canoeing today after chores, took a while but I got a 21.5” SMB!!! And of course a drum got em on spot lock the old fashioned way with this lure

Lucky loon strikes again! Took my wife’s kayak down to the lakehouse but my buddies were already on the water testing out a new fancy trolling motor and just said to hop in their boat. They had already gotten one smallie prior to my arrival, an 18” er I jumped in and it was slow for maybe an hour but got a nice hit on a fluke/jighead, turned out to be an almost 20” SMB I then tried hopping a rattle bait deep on bottom and got a 13” crappie, he got barotrauma in the livewell so he now resides in my freezer The offshore bite got really slow so we hit the bank and Craig picked up a small one , but even that got slow. Tried offshore again but only caught a pretty sunset. Swung back by the house to snap a few pics for my construction advisory team of @Jigfishn10 and @Bird, here’s what it looks like standing under the deck

@Jigfishn10 I keep my 2 motor boats in the driveway where we live in Knoxville, I’ll get ya a pic of deck underside later today. The 4 kayaks are all cheapo’s , $20-$30 dollar yard sale purchases. I love the blue one tho, it’s super fast to paddle between spots

@Bird, that knowledge is exactly what I need! (With some supervision) Thanks!!! Always helps to talk to people that have done it before. I really like the looks of that kayak you sold, I’d like to have a premium yak but I can use my wife’s Jackson Liska when she’s not looking, it paddles and fishes like a dream, just heavy

Figuratively I have! Literally I haven’t but I’d bet my cousin has. There is a season for hunting them, he said they are basically impossible to kill because they are so smart but I know he got one once

^hell yeah @Boomstick!