TnRiver46

Where did you work, sneedville? Haha

Yep like that. He was wearing a rain jacket that was wet, the fish was wet, and it was raining tho. He was clearly trying to prevent the fish from escaping. I think the fish would be fine. The fish are Probably doing a lot better than had I caught them and deep fried

He lipped them and they started wiggling so he just held them like a running back holds a football

Bryan Schmitt is bear hugging smallmouth in the rain one after another

Ah! Gotcha

That’s bigger than 3.5! 21” is usually approaching 4 lbs down here and ours are long and skinny

They hit the spawn up north on smallie tournaments a few times and the floggers made everyone mad. Ban smallmouth fishing all together! Haha

Todays flavor was smoke purple and a monster catfish ate it

Hahahah. He lobbed it to me to check out. I approved, and threw it back to him. Somehow the hook just stuck in his leg and the jig was just dangling there. @Siebert Outdoorsputs good hooks in his jigs!!!

I saw a live camera yesterday zoom in on a live sonar screen and the angler was pointing out bass between each grass stem in 2-3 feet of water. Granted he didn’t catch any of them

I’m with ya, I don’t fish many tourneys because 11-12 lbs is a banner day for me. BUT! it has absolutely nothing to do with their boats being better than mine and setup to find fish. I know where the fish are, so does everyone. The pros are better than me at catching them. If you gave them all jon boats and paddles with no live scope, they would still kick our butts by just as much

I wouldn’t say wrong haha. They are catching smallies here too. Just seems to me like they guys that don’t like smallmouth tournaments really just don’t like deep water tournaments because this one has plenty of smallmouth

Zoom makes one heckuva worm

What happened to bull wake, fish chewed it all up?

You’re a machine! I’ve got some jobs for you down south a bit….

I saw guys looking down at live today…….. and diversity of techniques at the last event I think it’s the deep clear water and smallmouth that you guys don’t like hahah

I think paulanik caught the biggest so far with a swimbait

Now that looks like somewhere I would fish