TnRiver46

I’ve been hooked a few times in various places, the fish still gets the bad end of the stick

I’ve been scared a few times in my life, none of those time were trying to land a smallmouth. I think the bass is way more scared than I am. after mixing it up with 18 wheelers 8 hours a day, I’d gladly let a smallmouth hook me in the hand

Love it! I’ve ran those motors all over creation

I just tell them my name is @scalefacewhen the game warden rolls up on me

Go backwards or use trolling motor also I’ve trolled with the gas engine at minimum speed and the troller down in the water, that slows you down some

I see a good many folks filling up their trucks with the pure stuff

Rachel and I are about to hit 71 combined early next month haha. Time flies when you’re frying fish!

Atta boy!

Funny you’d say that……… I saw this yesterday I’ve caught some nice fish by the stadium, got about a 3 lb with a frog there last summer . In the 2021 elite event in Knoxville, I saw Steve Kennedy catch a nice one and lose a really nice one at the basketball arena. And Jason Christie was spinnerbaiting laydowns there and a big fish kept blowing up top water in the branches but he didn’t catch it. In February, water was cold and swift They have jet boats so they fish all over it. You kind of have to float from point A to point B up there, but maybe you could use one access and get on them

Not when your friends give it to you

Last time I was in N Michigan there was 60 mph wind and hail , it’s wild up there

After all that work you’ve done to your jon????

River sports is awesome, that’s where I got my wife’s engagement “ring” (a jackson liska)

Anytime man. My buddies have been catching a good many 18”-20” on upstream.

Unaccounted for

That happened to my brand new push mower a few years back. Now I know the last time I mow in the fall, I duck tape the handle together and leave it sitting there running until it runs out. My coworkers uses a different strategy , he just starts his equipment once a week all winter, just to run it

You’re still a spring chicken yet

This thread just popped into mind………… I was just helping my father in law get some lumber, we strapped it to a hay wagon. He said let’s put a different hitch on your truck with no ball for the wagon, here’s what mine looked like when I took it off hahaha . I can take that ball off with a pipe wrench, I do it all the time Heck I’ve got rust between most of my toes, #rodehardandputupwet

There are always big ones, I just didn’t encounter them, and didn’t make it up the French. That’s a bit of a haul but not bad right now because there’s minimal current. I’ve seen times when it’s 3 mph at the airport. You’re still in party boat territory almost all the way up to highway 168 bridge on the French. Prop boats can make it a mile or two above that bridge.

Hahahaha! You got that right right. Maybe 15% sugar and 85% knockdown punch

In a yak? And going upstream? That airport is 1.5 miles from my driveway, I put in there Wednesday evening and paddled around in my canoe , caught lots of baby smallmouth, rock bass, skipjack, a big bluegill, and 1 lb largemouth if people are parked on the ramp at the airport, sometimes they will move for ya but it takes them forever. If I see a crowd there, I go to james white parkway bridge instead

We been brewing ethanol from corn in these hills since before there was a president

Good deal

All the time! We used spinners a lot growing up fishing the great smoky mountain national park, they have to be single hook there. Lots of nearby gas stations actually sold rooster tails with single hooks, if not you had to cut two off with pliers because where the hook eye attaches was all enclosed. It was east to pull the single hook spinner through shallow rapids full of sticks and not get hung. You lost an extra fish or two but it was worth it not to deal with snags, I used the single hook version even in places trebles were legal