TnRiver46

Well what if I like to jig the ones that flutter?? Hahah. the ones l like are cotton Cordell, little Cleo, and kastmaster. I used to use Cleo exclusively but that gets expensive. I’ve also hooked some nice ones with silver minnow and the h20 express copy but haven’t landed them yet

I cast and jig all my spoons? Didn’t know there was a difference

I’d probably put 6 of these in there

Congrats! I always have a better time when I stay away from stocked trout as well

Haha! Good point……… it’s one reason among many

My advice is hook them with something else. I used to be the worlds worst at throwing spooks and prop baits all day long for river smallies. I typically could get the biggest fish of the day to blow up the lures, and of course sometimes caught the biggest fish of the day. But if your goal is landing most of the fish that hook up, an 1/8 oz round ball jighead or 2/0-3/0 offset worm hook will greatly tilt the odds in your favor. People think im crazy for using jigheads with small hooks but when a big smallmouth eats them, they are almost always hooked solidly in the top of the mouth. It’s hard to get out, my knuckles are usually scraped up from trying to poke the jig out of the roof of their mouth. Treble hooks lose fish, no way around it ^hook ‘em and land ‘em 20” smallmouth special (put a tube or worm on it in summer)

It’s so weird to read that a lake has an owner

Congrats!!

Good friends are good to have!

We caught the catfish throwing jug lines off the dock and swimming out to get them when a fish bit haha

Duck, deer, catfish, a tomahawk steak, short ribs, and lots of veggies

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You can make a smoker out of almost anything. *this is Not a smoker but a fun way we cooked at my bachelor party last weekend. now if you put a lid on it and stack the blocks a little higher, you’ve got a smoker

Caveman television

That’s the part I enjoy, constantly tinkering with a fire

State and federal agents had too much paper work to catch up on back at the office

I sharpen knifes on the ceramic ring around the bottom of my coffee mug most mornings

Welcome! Never heard of that town

Dark time is for sleepy I taxi back to the ramp in the dark a lot but I don’t like it, I hit lots of floating logs even at 3-4 mph

You beat me to it. “It’s made with bits of real donkey so you know it’s good”

Ha! The ones that flood up your way are real, ours are sort of artificial

You should be ok weather wise , good luck out there! I don’t know if I’ve ever been to west GA but usually a purple of black plastic worm is a great bass lure down south any time of year just dragged along the bottom

You need to move down here where TVA holds back all that crazy flood water

Stay off my turf!!! Just kidding I have no clue where you are but it looks like a lot of my home rivers nice fish and pics