TnRiver46

A raccoon ripped a board off this lady’s chimney chase. I went up into the attic ( ? ) and saw the coon, then set a trap outside. I caught the raccoon this morning but the customer said she was still hearing noises. I went up into the attic again today and there was a smaller version of a raccoon ready to kill me. Still got work to do!

Since I’ll be working til I’m dead, I need to do my fishing while I still can haha

Fatty

I try to fish open water on the rare occasion that I’m night fishing. Hard to get near the trees

Yea, I do fish some main stem Tailwaters like fort Loudon and watts bar dams. Live shad will create a feeding frenzy of nice bass that have ignored all your lures all day long. If I can’t net shad, I’ll just use a 3 inch sassy shad style bait or small fluke on a jig head. If they are at a dam, they eat a lot of shad

I gotta mow moms house after work, I think it’s already in the 90s right now

Fishing from shore: the greatest way to lose lures rapidly. Bait monkey approved

My Tailwaters are vastly different, summertime is smallies in the shoals time. Like 1-2 feet deep, topwater all the day long

I can’t work a lure uphill unless I no longer want that particular lure. swinghead sounds like a good option for the area described

Nice fish, love that lure

^ now that sounds like some good advice!!

That’s how most of my days go, I just don’t tell anybody haha

Pulleys!!!

If only I knew how to hook them there every time …….

I started off the day losing 3-4 fish in the first hour or so on a swimbait, thought it might be one of those days. Then i decided to pick up the ole jig worm and caught one about 16-17” and then a second almost touching 18”. The pic below I took for @LrgmouthShad When you get them stuck in that spot, they won’t come off my buddy showed up later and we went way up river, caught some smallies in shallow water but kept seeing big drum feeding. I sight casted to a few and they chomped down on the worm, pretty fun

Im actually not allowed to relocate them but I can release them in the same place I caught them (accidental by-catch). if you do everything very slowly and carefully with no sudden moves, they will usually just waddle away. Also, sometimes I get sprayed haha

I saw Connell fishing right above watts bar dam on his channel. I wonder if anyone ran to fish below fort loudoun dam?

I should add, if you make it to east TN I can put you right on some nice kayak smallies you might have to leave the propellers and flippers at home tho, rocks are not optional

6’ or 6’6” flemsy pole, I get them from academy for $12.99

I did some of this in my younger days, it’s pretty fun! Dogs, work, and money get in the way now. I always make plenty of weekend camping trips throughout the year, that’s more than enough for me anymore

Ironically I’m watching costanza right now. Yes sometimes they smash it on top of the weeds. Other times they swim off with it when you let it drop around the edges

I’m going the opposite and say weightless on 65 braid, offset round bend hooked weedless not wacky

Summertime Fishing in a boat mid-late afternoon in the southeastern US is a workout even if you are sitting still in a chair. Spontaneous combustion feels imminent at times