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A tad over 18” I think

I don’t think there are tons of Alabama bass where I live yet but definitely some. Lakes on the little Tennessee like fontana and tellico have a lot of them. They seem to radiate from the mountains Fashion police found me again!

@AlabamaSpothunter, I was thinking ky spot, they are native here

Got a nice LM on the poor man’s ned rig. Got a redbreast, couple drum and a spot with black marabou jig. Also got a skipjack for future bait and the spot came home for the freezer. Kind of forgot to keep the sunfish but it would have been excellent. LM are not recommended for consumption where I was so he/she got a reprieve

I saw two of them checking the same guy on a bridge Tuesday. At least they both rode in the same 80,000 pickup truck

Yeah they suck. The game wardens say they are stretched too thin to catch them but that’s BS. I went to college with like 7 game wardens and we all still talk frequently. they are well paid to do little to stop it .

The only reason they think that slot limit hasn’t helped much is because not many harvest smallmouth and the majority of people that do harvest don’t care about the rules. then you have thousand of birds that can’t read the regulations

Don’t tempt me with a good time………. sometimes your tree is 75 and not 80 and falls over dead, happened at my house. Also you don’t have to plant another tree, they do that on their own we do have a slot limit on free flowing rivers in TN. You can keep fish under 13 and over 17, the ones inbetween 13 and 17 have been found to be the prime breeders, opposite of what everyone thinks so they protect that length range. The ones over 17” have already spread their DNA for several years All that said, most biologists will tell you Mother Nature is going to kill way more fish than any human can with a fishing pole. It’s called consumptive mortality and it’s documented extensively. No matter what humans take, Mother Nature takes way more and adjust herself accordingly. People arguing over what each other harvest is mainly just ado over nothing in the big scheme. People must blame each other for everything, tale as old as time

I always fish where those lines are stacked closest to each other, especially all winter

I got a buddy selling one, late 70s 20 hp

Fashion police!

Not exactly a project but once summer comes I cut this unruly vegetation for exercise, clear view of traffic from the stop sign, and the general satisfaction of destroying it. It’s mimosa, walnut, hackberry, wild roses, and poison ivy. I use a weedeater and machete, loppers it I let it get too big. The city mows it with one of those bush hog decks you turn sideways but not exactly often. I don’t even know if it’s my property (cliff) but nobody minds if I cut it haha

Once spring time struggles passed, you’ve been on fire. Spring is for the birds, as well as people that launch their boat once a year

I buy more round ball jig heads than bass pro shops

Got a hog, coon and possum so far this morning. the raccoons are getting into an auto parts store, the second pic is from the roof. A superhighway of muddy footprints . The hog is probably the 5th one I’ve caught at the same house

Haven not heaven. Turtle heaven is where Cajuns take them, a big stainless steel pot

Got another. Y’all making any progress or just watching them make more babies???

Gosh buddy that sounds rough. Praying for you to get back out there fishing ASAP

The beasts have been unleashed

Another one just like the other one! Nice ride

I don’t enter them because I’m never catching the winning fish. I’ve been known to catch a 4-5 lb smallie from time to time, maybe even two of them in an outing. But never 5! I think if I got 5 smallies over 18” I’d probably be too tickled to find the weigh in we’ve followed your reports for a long time, seems like you stay on tournament grade fish. I’m with @813basstard, keep plugging away and you will break thru

Exactly! Everyone is nedding all the time

Nowadays they look like Great Lakes groupers, all swollen on gobies. Love em

We don’t have any but they sound fun. They can probably hop out the water and just walk around the fish ladder…….