TnRiver46

Oh my gosh where do I start. I have wasted enough to fill way more than a 5 gallon bucket! In fact several times I have put all my gear into a 5 gallon bucket and went fishing in the rain. On these occasions I subsequently ruined an entire 5 gallon bucket of tackle, and I’ve only done that like 4 dozen times or so. I have AT LEAST 5-6 clear plano boxes full of hard baits that are completely wasted, for some reason I keep it thinking I can replace hooks and split rings and salvage them. Then there’s the soft plastics! I have bags upon bags upon bags of them that have gotten wet on wade trips and swolled into some crazy shapes. I even caught some fish at the local rock quarry with some deformed worms the Day, so those weren’t wasted . Do needle nose pliers count as tackle? I’ve wasted every single pair of those I’ve ever bought. Well I guess I used them a few times before they rusted shut so not a complete waste. but here’s my all time favorite: who doesn’t love organizing all their terminal tackle into a single box? Well I’ve learned to never do that again. Want to ruin all your hooks and jigheads at the same time? Put them all in the same box and fish in the rain

Corn’s up!!! of course now it’s dove season…… corn’s down!!!

Hahahahah! Very similar proclamation hahahahahaha i may have to borrow that, we don’t have massive corn fields but we’ve got little patches of it everywhere. (no flat land)

I’ve not been right where you’re at but I’ve been pretty close. The primary forage fish in a lot of Michigan waters is yellow perch. You could definitely have a variety of minnow species but there sure are a lot of tiny yellow perch swimming around in almost all waters up that way

Sorry but that reminded me of a story, probably a “guess you had to be there” story but I’m bored so I’ll type it. We were fishing in a downpour one time and all of a sudden it started raining twice as hard. I mean it’s deafening loud rain. My buddy Kerr, standing there fly fishing, says “rainin’ a little harder now……..!” I don’t know why but that just cracked me up. To this day, probably 15 years later, every time it rains really hard I can count on a text from him that says “raining a little harder now.” Like just two weeks ago, he and his family were camping at a campground in a camper and we were on a nearby island camping in tents. At sunrise it started pouring, and I didn’t want to get out of my tent. My phone made a noise and of course it’s from Kerr. “Rainin a little harder now”

I like casting topwaters with a spinning reel but I much prefer the baitcaster once the fish is hooked

Sheesh! Congrats!!!

Sometimes…… glad you’re getting some precipitation out there

Well I’ve never used a barber but yes I tip service people. As a service person myself, I like the practice

Praise God I don’t suffer from allergies this area is apparently a hot bed for them

We had to sing that song in music class during elementary school. I can say that I will remember the words for the rest of my life unless I hit my head really hard

Bout 50% people will tell you that their eyes get red when they are spawning but unless smallmouth spawn in December in 46° water I disagree

Ive always warned, even on here a few times, that he was scum. But he got a title, so oh well I guess. Truthfully joe burrow and joe Brady got the title and Ed O just got out of the way urban Meyer was a standup guy at all his stops too……..

The hardest I ever got hit was getting my lure out of a tree. It was a pop R, I had draped it over a tree branch. I’m sure all of you know how you gently reel it up to the branch and then give a giant heave ho. Well a split second before the heave ho, the lure came off of the branch and I yanked with all I had. So instead of it touching the branch on the way out it was just coming straight at me at the speed of light and hit me just above the belt on my back side. It left a perfect outline of the plug on my skin

And we’re back!!!!! my charcoal chimney got a little hot……….. lump charcoal (man that stuff gets hot) and applewood chunks

5 years is pretty good , especially for the cheapest battery on the market I’m not sure but I’m thinkin my new console unit is somewhat draining to my electronics. My battery wAs old anyway but now it seems to have weakened after the upgrade. Thanks for the battery recommendation, I wrote down those cca and rc numbers for when I’m shopping. For now I just turn it off when I walk from the console to the trolling motor, don’t currently have a graph hooked up on the bow

My bad . In that case I have nothing to share

Absolutely in fact I just scrolled back through as I didn’t recall this thread, had to make sure I wasn’t full of BS and hadn’t posted here already haha. Funny, the first reply said he didn’t think this thread would fly. I think the thread outlasted him/her

I was raised not to make such statements

I have one, it was a gift from a generous fisherman. I haven’t caught one yet but I did have something hit it really hard once I also found another one in the water but can’t remember where I put it

I’m kind of afraid to attempt and answer now because I have nothing like that near me. I would have to drive a long way to find a new lake. but nonetheless, here goes: I do the opposite of 90% of anglers. I rarely start off by power fishing or topwater. Most everything you read says to start out fishing fast and then slow down later. I always start out dragging a worm, especially if it’s unfamiliar territory. Usually they bite it. From there I will typically just keep dragging the worm but I have been known to break out a top water or something huge to try to get a big fish after I have cleared the skunk out of the boat. I’m one of those people that likes to say I at least caught something so I start with what I’m good at

And im also a cheapskate ……….

I must be pretty decent at “not believing everything I read/hear” because I’ve never purchased a ned rig…………. Or jackhammer or whopper plopper