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Or unless the big smallies you target eat 1.5-2 inch threadfin shad most of the year. ?

I had a similar issue, although mine sometimes wouldn’t pee in gear at the lowest throttle. I would always get the alarm at low throttle or neutral. My intake tube was cockeyed, problem solved

Creme makes lipless ? This I didn’t know

I figured @Catt would say concentrate on the structure under the grass instead of the grass itself

We call that area little Alaska, it’s as cold as can be. Also, old crow medicine show wrote a song about the town of butler, it’s great. “my home town, is a half mile down. It’s a half mile of water all around, all around!” I couldn’t imagine having to dig up my loved ones graves and move them, but that’s exactly what happened If you guys will allow me, I’ll tell some family history involving a flooded reservoir, seems at least close to on topic I recently learned that my family is one of the “first families” of Tennessee, something I had never even heard of. This means my direct descendants were living here before TN was a state. It is extremely hard to prove this, but my aunt has done all the leg work and acquired the certification. She gave a presentation on it last week that we attended. Cool stuff! My direct ancestor James Cooper was a member of the watauga association and signed the watauga treaty, along with some folks you might remember from history class, especially if you’re from Texas (Davy Crockett and John Sevier). James Cooper was killed by native Americans where gap creek flows into the watauga river near sycamore shoals. I don’t know the story as well as my aunt but I believe a group of settlers were in violation of the treaty with the Cherokee. They were supposed to lease the land for ten years but some didn’t want to leave and began making permanent structures. The fort that James Cooper and others has built came under attack while James and a young 12 year old boy were outside gathering boards to fortify the structure. James jumped into creek at the mouth of the river to avoid the arrows (and maybe bullets, I think natives had guns at this point). The water was too shallow and he was shot, captured, and scalped. The people inside the fort reported hearing his loud screams. The 12 year old boy that was with him was also captured and burned alive. here’s some info on the watauga treaty https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~snipper/genealogy/wau/waupetition.html and here’s a screenshot from that article, you can see James Cooper’s name on the bottom left Many of the people living in the area were also part of the “Overmountain Men” that went over the Appalachian mountains to fight the British at the battle of Kings mountain, NC, a very critical conflict in the American Revolution. As usual, the Americans were outnumbered greatly but shot much more accurately and defeated the British. Who would have ever thought growing up shooting squirrels would be the basic skill that saved us from the crown?? here’s some info on that and a screenshot. That statue is very close to where James Cooper was killed in the water https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overmountain_Men The story continues a little further downstream into what is now Cherokee lake. James Cooper was married to Prentice Cobb Cooper. Their descendants later settled along the Holston river in what is now Three Springs, TN. There’s even an island in the old river maps before the lake was formed called Cobb’s landing. The original home place foundation can sometimes be seen if they draw Cherokee lake down far enough in the winter. Sorry for the hijack, and thanks to @TcRoc for a great topic and to @GRiver for jogging my memory, that was cool for me to write that down in one place

Voodoo doll is my guess

Zack Birge now thinks you killed his batteries with Murphy’s law of sports picks hahah

Where are they fishing?

Mike McDaniel signed up to deal with the issues

Thanks Glenn! Don’t tell anyone that all I ever think about is fishing. Oh wait you’ve written it down complete with statistics……. Busted!

Nice! Those are some monster cats

Law……… I broke out the fine china for this one

I know some people that really love a stupid tube. I get a kick out of Jacob wheeler giving his camera man heck about breaking off dozens of stupid tubes every trip

Ha! Negative. Somehow, someway, knock on wood, I’ve never cut my self filleting fish. And by golly I have filleted a lot of fish I kept having to use too much pressure to get through the scales and then accidentally slicing right thru the small ones backbones

I saw a video of a fella get a 14.48 lb out there recently and turn it in to the share a lunker program. And inside the share a lunker facility they had traced the family tree of several offspring they stocked directly back to giants turned in by anglers

That’s up to you as a parent! We had a mutual agreement at my house. Mom said now you’re 18, time to be an adult. But I was like “hooray I’m 18, I can do whatever I want!!!” she would help if I asked, but I haven’t had to move back in yet haha. She does still cook me dinner once a week and send me home with copious leftovers provided I change some light bulbs, fix a few shingles, and kill mice

If you want a refresher on what football used to be like, here’s a pro bowl highlight for ya hmmmm. Ok nfl links won’t play. Google Sean Taylor hit in pro bowl. A punter tries to run a fake and gets flattened

I’ve tried many times, I don’t hate it. We have a pretty decent atmosphere at the local minor league team, the Knoxville ice bears, but it’s not a cheap date night! I did learn from my in laws that it’s a lot easier to watch if you don’t try to concentrate on the puck, just watch the players instead and they will tell the story

Well, as I bet you know, I don’t know a thing about hockey!!!

My fishing buddy David used to live out that way and fish all those lakes during that era, cool stories!

That reminds me, are you feeling back to 100% buddy?

Nice one, almost didn’t recognize you without the buff

Hahahahahahahajajaj. Most excellent post sir