TnRiver46

Simple is the name of my game, I’ve actually been fishing without a trolling motor lately. Not on purpose but I’m enjoying it. All that other jazz is fun but if you want to find bass just toss a plastic worm around on your spinning gear. If you’re fishing in the jungle or timber, toss the worm on your bait caster

Magnets also don’t stick to rod/reels. They pick up nails and screws nicely tho haha

Haha! New Mitchell or old? Rod holders are the worst

It’s in the latest catch pics thread, but I’ll give ya a few here too

Philly is a great sports city, he has somehow survived a World Series and super bowl celebration. Here’s hoping for yet another World Series celebration, they greased the street light poles after the eagles super bowl. He lives right in the thick of it all and can walk to the ball park. His daughter has been to hundreds of Phillies games and she’s 5 or 6 years old

He had to make it look like he was trying really hard since the scoreboard told a different tale He should pull a favre and play for a third team so we can all be miserable for a few more years

Fluke or gulp minnow on a jig head. Or a light 1/16 oz or so inside a tube slow falling and yo yo when the big tourneys come during cold smallmouth fishing it’s always dominated by damiki. Drop shot for some reason isn’t as effective in colder temps (regionally speaking)

Not til somebody hammers a stake thru his heart. He was sure ticked on the sideline

My brother sent me a selfie, I think from the street he lives on

Big south fork of the Cumberland, French broad, pigeon, or the hiwasse is about as white of water as I like. All great bass fishing. There are bigger rapids on the ocoee and nantahala but I’m a little chicken on the class 4 and 5 stuff. The ocoee, where they had the kayaking for the 96 Olympics, is loaded with spotted bass nowadays

Even better, our whitewater has bass in it! I have lost some rods though……..

I always enjoyed hand control with an extension and big foot on/off switch. I’m thinking about going back to it as my troller bit the dust about a week ago

Well, today they were inactive but I got one of my biggest ever. Water was 62 and boy they got active once hooked. I catch more SMB when the water is almost 80 degrees but many are small. I get bigger ones when the water is 47-50 degrees. They are more active the warmer the water, metabolism increases with temperature

Heck yeah ! Nice momentum going into shotgun season

I swim it to the bank and empty it, we flip a lot whitewater canoeing. my buddies still make fun of me for a time when I hollered “we’re swamped head to shore!”

Well, today turned out awesome. For those that don’t want to read all the details, I almost broke the ole “ PB” as the kids say with this fish, it was just over 5 lbs “ and now the rest of the story“ I fished this morning a while, maybe 8:30-11:30 and only caught one largemouth before breakfast, I posted him above somewhere. Then after breakfast my wife says let’s go for a drive. We took off into NC on the cherohala skyway and it was quite lovely. on the way back we checked out Indian boundary lake, also lovely. I had actually never seen it in person, the only other time I tried a tree was across the road well we get back home and it’s about 4:45 pm and I’ve got a couple hours to fish . Fishing has been pretty tough near the house, but I’ve gotta try it . My wife said she didn’t want to sit in the boat if nothing was biting. I said “well you have to be there in case they start to biting” as I’m pulling away from the dock I see something blasting shad on the surface. I go try a few casts, nothing but there’s still bait balls. I remember I have a cast net in the livewell………. Got some shad and head out to the main channel. Not long into fishing with the threadfin on a 1/16 oz jig head with #4 hook, I get a 17”er as a pontoon goes by cheering me on. Then about 45 minutes later another 17” amongst a bunch of double decker yachts. Then, just as I’m thinking i better get back and eat dinner with the wife at sunset, I get a bite. When I set into the fish, it took off like a striper. I had already clicked to backreel thank goodness, it was off like a rocket. I figured it probably was a striper then it jumped straight up. Like way up. Time stopped…………. It was airborne for what seemed like forever. When it splashed down it took off again and here comes several yachts. The fish is dragging me all over, my trolling motor doesn’t even work so I’m just skiing behind a smallmouth toward dry land in massive waves. It jumped and dove over and over but I finally got it! The tiny hook held. I just knew it was my biggest ever when it launched the first time but I don’t think it was . Somewhere around 22” and just over 5 lbs. What a day.

I asked the in-laws if the drought affected their farm, they said this time of year is great for it to be dry so they can get out and harvest. They want it to be dry during planting and harvest and rain the rest of the time

54 degrees should be prime! Try a small fluke or damiki armor shad on a jig head maybe

Little skinny feller

Down the hatch, destroy the evidence

I got only dinks today but I lost something huge. Not sure what. Lovely day anyhow

Narragansett

Carmax

No toilet paper either? The shame whats strange is the further you get off grid, the more crackheads you seem to encounter