TnRiver46

I talked to a TVA scuba diver once, he said all stories about monster catfish from divers are tall tales, you can’t see 2 inches that far underwater

@throttleplate, c’mon man! A sad face emoji for a refrigerator joke??? What do I have to do to win you over????

Mr river bass is ready for ya!!!! congrats on retirement

Indeed the energy thing is BS, makes humans feel good about themselves to say it though. Bass will also follow a lure a dozen times without biting it, even when it’s cold. They aren’t “smart” persay, they just have a survival instinct. as far as jumping bass, I catch them all the time. Did it yesterday. The key is, a bass or other predator actively eating shad will always jump more than once. Carp just fly through the air once most of the time. It also sounds way different when a predator fish hits, carp just jump without eating

Much like bass, not all skunks are the same. I can trap 100 In a row without getting sprayed sometimes there is no cheat code, no sudden moves is a good start tho

Small hook rigged weedless, split shot up the line a bit

Give one of them a snuggle and see how harmless it is

I’ve never had any trouble using the single

Ouch! I know my livewell won’t keep 5 bass alive all day. I wish it dispensed ice instead of water

Creme makes something like that but smaller

Sounds like me standing in front of the open refrigerator doors at 2 am

I don’t know, I’ve seen them ignore baits all day long

Smallmouth bass always tend to follow one rule: they do whatever they want

You gotta want it

Our raccoon numbers are way down compared to the last 10 years or so, might be a good year for corn haha my buddy set up a trail cam in his corn a few years ago and saw raccoons, then set traps. He removed 21 or 22 of them and was still getting photos after that, he waved the white flag

That's why they pay me the big bucks

They look like this

Good to know! Thanks. It stands to reason you would know exactly what’s happening between 4 and 5 am ! ?

Left the house at 3:45 am, Got out on the water at 5 am hoping to find a shad spawn and maybe some striper/walleye. Water temp was 77, I might be a little late in the year for shad spawn. I only got one fish in the dark and it was a small largemouth with a rattle trap, tried whopper plopper for about an hour with only one dink bite. Once the sun started hitting the water I switch sides of the river and fished a shady pocket off the main channel. I was kind of mesmerized watching my fluke next to the trolling motor when all of a sudden what I think is a big spotted bass is tracking it. I had a minor heart attack, shrieked like a girl, and the fish just froze. I finally twitched the bait and he engulfed it, almost a 20” meanmouth (I think). i had to cut the grass and spread some seed at the lake house so I started driving the boat that way. I was marking some fish so I tried trolling a crank 2 mph. As I’m doing that, fish start blowing up the surface. A lot of them were skipjack herring and I wanted one for live bait. They were attacking my fluke by the dozens with no hookup. I cast to what I think is a jumping skipjack and it gets immediately flushed and a nice smallie jumps…… and jumps…. And jumps…… and I finally net it there are still fish jumping everywhere so I tied a spook on and put the troller on high, casting to lay downs as I chased the schools. A smaller fish that I think was fry guarding smashed the plug ok now need to cut grass , get that done including lots of poison ivy. I jumped into the lake to wash that off, and tried one more spot near the dock with a worm, deep rocks. Thump………… I’ve got a big fish bulldogging…………. Then all of a sudden it feels smaller and I net a catfish and my line is all frayed, guess he was behind a rock sunrise was awesome there was a big full moon also, normally I don’t catch fish during such but I did today

Got out on a short float after work with some friends Wednesday and caught a couple small ones cranking Ran the same float Friday evening, caught a couple small ones with a worm today I caught my first ever whopper plopper fish, hit it twice And my buddy caught a drum that was 4-5 lbs and I said let me take a pic , he’s like no it’s a drum. Then said ok I’ll hold it way out here so it looks tiny. I think it should be a new trend

Monster

I remember back when you mean mugged the camera…….. hahahah! Nice catches

Ha! Sometimes yes sometimes no. We have to find dead animals inside the structure on occasion, unfortunately following your nose is the best way to find them

“You reek, I think you’ve gone nose blind” -my wife when I got home

Dude, thought you vanished