TnRiver46

I’ve got some hand poured producto worms, I love them

He calls the silver and black “vampira “ and is his second favorite haha

Cat food always works for me too, but this one was eating at a customers bird feeder every night also. I had cat food in a trap and kept catching a raccoon. In fact, I think I caught the same raccoon at least 4 times and then one other big one. Then I tried two traps and the raccoon would just roll one over and get caught in the other. In an act of desperation I moved the trap away from the feeder and put sunflower seed in it, and it worked………… the problem you run into at this juncture is a lot like fishing. Was it the bait change or the location change that was the key? Or would I have caught him that night anyway with cat food in the old location simply because he beat the raccoon to the trap that night? The answer is nobody knows but we as humans tend to focus on the bait because we like to think about eating different things all the time……….. kind of reminds me of @king fishers recent thread

That eagle claw 6 lb is crazy strong. Probably a terrible diameter but I’ve caught some hogs with it, I got a bigger gar just recently on it

Haha! Thanks. And it was with my new reel that my buddy got me with no AR switch so I had to use the dreaded drag. Boy did he take some line! He had it singing out

Yes they will hit little curly tails and paddle tails too

Hard not to “be glad in it”

Had my first cup of that brand today but it was the red bag. Tasted like coffee to me! The second job I ever had was working for a guy that started a gourmet coffee company out of his garage, reading that brought back some memories (of sweating in a garage among other things). He’s now a pretty big outfit with a coffee house downtown

That’s probably as good of an idea as any. It’s probably a little crazy up there anywhere ya go. I’m not sure they stock trout in the summer but maybe

Tired the Johnson silver minnow for about an hour this morning with no bites. I couldn’t stand it anymore and grabbed a worm. Thump………. Then I tried the spoon for a while longer to no avail (still no captures on that……..). Then I trolled a shad rap and got 3 smallies around 12” or so. Then I saw a bunch of those toothy critters and I couldn’t resist !!!! Got another 40”, quite the battle on 6 lb mono

I’m no hunter Rabbit is really really good!!! Hopefully my friends will trade me some for fish fillets this winter

Maybe you should ask to borrow her zebco!……………..

Deadly

First cast myth? Busted great outing

Then throw in fishing pressure to the equation………… I know trout waters that are loaded with monsters that won’t bite anything on account of being over caught and released

It isn’t any fun to just wakeboard out in the middle of nowhere, they have to show off in front of all the other boats. Same with jetski

After reading this A few times I do remember once or twice seeing the “spaghetti” on my 2D sonar in the dead of winter. By golly it was smallies and guess who caught them dropping a tube straight down Her not me! Circa 2013

I finally got a hard to get skunk with bird seed in the cage, but I also moved it around so it could have been that. We have a cool device that helps put that vole bait down into the ground

I’ve thrown several rods in the lake. Hooked them on the back cast

Blue top legend!

All the largemouth schooling I’ve ever witnessed has been 13.999” bass. I’ve heard tale of people seeing big ones schooling a lot on watts bar but they always say they never got a bite. Then there are smallies……….. these jokers don’t really seem to “school” in groups, but they will blast shad on the surface, often over and over and over. And many times it’s a monster fish that’s doing it. I’ve seen a 20”+ smallie busting threadfin shad hundreds of times if not thousands. I honestly never recall seeing a largemouth do it. one of my favorite fish catches was when a buddy of mine rented a house on @BassNJakes home pond to party all weekend. I figured why not bring my boat?? Well this was before I realized just how many pleasure boats use that lake (should have known). I didn’t get up early enough (or so I thought) for good topwater. The sun had already been up for 45 minutes or so, I just decided to cruise around and look at points, drag a tube down deep. Caught some dinks, and by 9 or 10 am the jetski and pontoons were everywhere. I was thinking time to head to the dock when I saw what I thought was a striper blasting shad. It wasn’t happening super often but it was always in darn near the same spot. Every time I got within casting distance the jumping would cease and I would go back to dragging bottom and of course that’s when it would jump again. So I just grabbed a jointed storm thunder stick and sat right where it kept jumping and waited. Finally the stars aligned and it jumped when I was ready. I waked that plug along and the fish grabbed it and went straight down (deep clear water). This thing is fighting hard like none other, turned out to be a smallmouth just under 18” but wildly strong. Since then I have been able to repeat the lone jumper pattern many times on that lake and several rivers. This was a fun day we camped on an island and same thing: lone jumpers started well after sunrise

I’ve been on a school of smallies and dropped a DS down only to pull up a largemouth ???? they are bass, they eat the same stuff. One of them can just eat a slightly larger version of all that stuff

I use the swim jig in areas where there is long strands of grass growing on the bottom of the river almost to the surface for miles and miles (looks like eelgrass but im guessing it’s not). Nothing comes through it well except a jig then when I fish jigs in timber I just hang them all and lose them

Love it

The ole boy that taught me refers to that color as “search and destroy”