TnRiver46

You don’t hunt much, do ya?

Most lakes around here are 30,000 acres of what you described. Steep cliffs are my favorite places to fish and we have miles and miles, I certainly wouldn’t call it dead water

That seems a tad harsh of a sentence for mild trickery

And drew cooks forward facing sonar is behind him…….

Poke berries will do it for ya. The stain Sure as heck won’t come out of clothes

Mine start doing the stomp dance with toenails on the hardwood at about 6 or 6:30. “hey sleepy heads, got any dog food?!”

Stetson blaylock and Patrick walters both using a different kind of forward facing sonar, standing on the front of their boat and looking around with their eyes I didn’t get to watch yesterday but I’m guessing that’s how Jon Cox bagged 31 lbs also

My brother in law works at a top notch shotgun range, let me know sometime and we will go!

A big grub sounds perfect for what you are trying to accomplish. Big bite baits 5” lunker grub is a good one!

That happened to me with the 8 lb bass I have mounted on my wall. Terrifying

And you believe him??

Haha, I’ve got two boats……

I’m on year 6 with my exide crank batt. Knock on wood

I think I caught a “PB” as the kids say. (posted in the wrong thread earlier) we only had from 8-11 to fish today. Drove upstream and the river we planned on fishing was raging, overnight they ran 15k cfs and it was pretty much unfishable. So we tried plan B, river with only 4k cfs. Water temp was 45. We fished for about an hour with no luck and I broke the bill off an original floating rapala, not a great start. Finally my buddy scores on a spinnerbait, about a 17 inch fish. Cool deal, always good for me to physically see a fish caught with one of those silly things. I didn’t want to get skunked so I reached for some night crawlers I had left over from last weekends perch mission. Not long into trying that, I got a hard hit and landed an 18” smallmouth that fought hard, had to use backreel. Next cast I get a stronger fish, it comes up in sight. It’s a big thick smallmouth. Get him into the boat and it’s at least 21” and very tall from dorsal to belly. We didn’t have a scale but both guessed it getting close to 6 lbs. I’ve caught a good many fish longer but none taller, it was heavy. Got some good pics and video , it striped up after 5 minutes in the well (making sure we didn’t have a scale) here’s the 18” first one I got and my buddy’s spinnerbait fish my bait of choice good luck groundhog The catch The release

Sorry I put it here, I’ll try to fix with magic moderator power

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