TnRiver46

Had about 15 free minutes, figured I’d hike down to the dock. got two dinks! One on the first cast and one on the third, first cast catch has never been bad to me. Tried the massive tree that I know is underwater out from the dock and got stuck as usual, there have to be crappie in that thing

Let’s go! The fish n chips are quite tasty as well haha thanks for the recommendations

https://jigandreel.com over 1070 whiskeys

It’s not a menu, it’s as thick as the dictionary haha. My fishing buddy’s girlfriend is in charge of what they buy too!! Lucky me definitely a fan of lagavulin as well, and I believe I’ve had a bottle of laphroaig cask strength. My brother traveled to the isle of skye and brought back talisker, that was good. now I’m gettin thirsty

We have a place downtown I bet I could find it by the glass. So far laphroaig is my favorite

We have very long spring and fall seasons, but not to hear the locals tell it haha at least y’all have a case

We have bass that live in waters that never get over 60

I’m a long way from retirement, and I get sunburned while I’m at work haha even if I do make it to retirement, I’m sure my wife will put me to work all day anyhow

High of 52 with rain and lightning today, weekend supposedly dry though

Don’t you go pulling back my peat! more smoke more peat more delicious

Funny you’d say that, the guy we rented to forever used to have an electric golf cart with monster mud tires to get down to the dock in the pic I posted haha

I leave my kayaks at the bottom of the hill, and lemme tell ya it’s a heck of a hill with no pavement, just red clay and river rock

I was fishing around the marina near our house last night and noticed a lot of Suzuki engines on the boats in the slips

We were down at the lake, he’s not used to all the brazen creatures. That cat was extremely fluffy and black and white, thought we were about to have a skunk situation

Bo is outside barking at stray cats, white tailed deer, and turkeys gobbling. These two will just wait here I guess

Gill nets are still legal in plenty of places, chickamauga and nickajack lakes just for starters. They taught us how to run gill nets in fisheries science class in the early 2000s, The gorton’s fisherman still has to get fish sticks from somewhere.

The shadow on this picture is pretty awesome

Stan Smart was the guru around here. It’s a great project for retirement. Much like boat building, you’ve always got more to do

Snagging is harder than it should be, I have about a 3% success rate……… the guy on the houseboat said he shot one with a bow yesterday

I don’t think I’ve had the one you mentioned, my cousin got me some 12 yr I believe for my bachelor party, that was the first I had heard of it

I was throwing into the fray and snagging them but about half were hooked in the mouth. I’m guessing I snagged them in the mouth because the rest is like tire rubber but who knows haha. The yellow bass actually hit the lure hard while I was trying to snag Buffalo under a dock??? What was he thinking

Cherokee is the main tribe from my region, the reservation I mentioned was Cherokee, NC. It’s not far from Knoxville due south. The treaty my ancestor was violating was the watauga treaty, it was almost like a Declaration of Independence before THE Declaration of Independence. You can see where James cooper signed it on the bottom left https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~snipper/genealogy/wau/waupetition.html

Dinosaur toothy creatures biting each other and not letting go, getting ran over by boats, causing injury while spawning, what do they feed these things???

Dink ? alert the real miracle was that I got to fish this evening, haven’t been since the classic and I was starting to have serious withdrawal symptoms. Shakes, night sweats, nightmares, crabbiness, irritability, etc. I can’t remember the last time I missed a whole week or more like that . So if you’re gonna post dinks might as well make an interesting story out of it. I went to launch the little tiny kayak and noticed 3-4 buffalo spawning underneath the dock. I snagged one briefly and it took off and pulled the hook. So I then paddle along casting a crappie jig and some kind of loud noise is echoing all throughout the cove. We are near a marina so I just figured it was somebody running some power tools working on a boat. Well the noise won’t stop , sounded like a bunch of people beating pontoon boats and floating docks with a baseball bat . I paddled into the marina and the splashing and noise was deafening. Buffalo were spawning and splashing and jumping all over, it was wild. I caught 6-8 of them, fun stuff on light tackle. They had some tubercules or something like it all over them, easy to hand land in the kayak like gripping sandpaper. 6 lb tatsu is tough, I was ripping them up over dock cables with a spinning rod haha. Some guy that lives on a house boat in there came out to chat, he said he can’t hardly sleep when the buffalo are beating the boat like that also got another little largemouth, a green sunfish, and a yellow bass