TnRiver46

Sometimes 7’ baitcasting broom stick with 50 lb braid and a frog or swim jig Mostly 6’6” spinning rod with 6 lb mono (most of mine are too flemsy but oh well, just set the hook harder) with plastic worm or grubs up to 1/8oz weight I also keep a 7’ MH baitcaster with 12 lb mono for top water, cranks, jerks, texas rig and shakey head over 1/8 oz, and some jigs I like to have a rod in the boat with 20 lb mono as well for rare situations, maybe flipping into laydowns or throwing a big topwater like bomber long A All waters around here contain smallmouth unless its a cattle woller

That’s why I just do 4

To me that just “shows to go ya” that all the patterns/conditions that you read about are regurgitated BS from old magazine articles and what not. It reminds me of the puffery on a beer or whiskey label

Y’all have been catching some nice ones!

Doesn’t want to drop $400 to catch 3 lbers? Ok I’ve done a fair amount of guiding over the last 15 years and that ain’t the attitude you want to have going in look at it like gambling, you’re paying the $400 no matter what so just kiss that goodbye and hope for the best I had a bunch of clients tell me their expectations before the trip. Let’s just say that the people that said they only want to catch this or that rarely do. The people that could care less what the results are have the best results 99% of the time

It’s because of all those times you said you couldn’t deal with a hot humid southern summer!

Hahaha! Heard that one a whole bunch in college, especially in reference to owls

I think the true answer is buried somewhere underneath a bunch of the best $150 combos and reaction strikes

I should add that in Tennessee we don’t have any lakes so the oxygen thing matters none. When they turn on the dams is far more important

I been telling people that my whole life, they don’t want to hear it its like an apple tree, you’ve got to prune the branches if you want good apples. Seems counterproductive but it works

I was going to say what @J Franchojust did. Just because it’s kayak instead of motor boats, that doesn’t mean all the other BS goes away.

You don’t have to stand on them the whole time.

In some parts of the country if you go fishing at 4 PM in February and fish until dark that only gives you about 30 minutes

September is a great month of fishing for me year after year. Not by Tommy biffle standards but I sure enjoy it

They have done that to a lake near me twice and both times it was way better with all the trees and bushes in it upon refill

Poor guy is probably still sitting there waiting on you to answer his riddle

I rarely get to fish in the morning. Work is always getting in the way

Launched last night and the water was really fast. We figured what the heck, we will try some downtown fishing, just searching out slower spots behind all the docks, bridges, and barge ties. My buddy got a nice smallie right off the bat with a pearl grub (sorry about the plumbers butt in the photo). Then we tried a creek mouth and my other buddy lost a nice largemouth with a fire tiger pop R in milfoil. I thought what the heck, I’ll try my booyah toad runner. Not long into throwing it, I saw a big wave following it. I told my buddies to watch the “gar” that was waking behind my frog as it approached the boat. Well about that time it went BLAM as a nice largemouth (not a gar) finally decided to eat it. Fun times.

My mom still has a set hahah

That’s the way everyone eats them, they just call it poor man’s lobster because it’s really good meat, lobster quality, that a poor man can acquire

I haven’t even figured out if there are sides to take Now if there was a side of macaroni and cheese I would take that

Woopsie

But is it equal and opposite??

If you count college, we skipped a whole bunch to go fishing. It’s a lot easier when your mom doesn’t work at the school