TnRiver46

You complained about poor management at a lake with lots of 8-12 lbs bass?????????!?? Haha I see where you were coming from, but we as humans have a way of thinking we know what’s best when nobody every tries different methods. Accidental management is pretty effective!!! It probably works better than intentional management most of the time people should eat more bass, they get pretty smart being released all the time! the fish in the picture is monstrous, way bigger than anything I’ve caught! I would say at least ten pounds

Goodness gracious

I found a good one in your inbox. You might want to give a prince in Nigeria a call, he wants to wire you some big time cash

Good post! @WRBhas been preaching the line measuring method on here for years, unfortunately I don’t think I’ve ever read a post where someone actually used it! I prefer making a notch on my rod to mark the length of the fish (doesn’t work for girth but I’ve never measured girth anyway) because I would not be able to distinguish which piece of line from all the other ones in my boat!

Bingo

Is there anyway to undo this action? I guess it’s not terribly Important but……

Green bass and brown bass eat the same things. I would guess smallies in a pond wouldn’t live too long

And here I thought it was always just me being an idiot (which is still a factor….) I hate everything that I purchase from Lowe’s!!! You always end up having to go back like five times before you’re done with anything

I caught a potential world record spotted bass last week. The fish hit my walking bait and the fight was on!!! After several runs, I lipped the fish, unhooked it and let it go. Just as I was looking up the spotted bass record on my phone, someone was shaking me and said “babe, you’re snoring. get off the couch and go back to bed.”

If I get a limit of bass, I’m going home to call the New York Times and see if they want to run the story in tomorrow’s edition

If y’all really want to know how to catch bigs like a pro, just ask me. Caught this beast last night in all seriousness, I appreciate everything James did for us on here. If I had to travel like they do, I wouldn’t ever be on forums. I’d be lucky to find my toothbrush and deodorant

Ha! Yeah we have a massive collection of destroyed traps. Some are better than others, we use tomahawk and safeguard and they seem to hold up well for several years. The ones you get at Home Depot or tractor supply usually get torn up badly after the second or third raccoon. Tomahawk came out with a new trap a few years back with thicker metal so we got a dozen of them. Doggone if the doors weren’t too short, raccoons have escaped out of all of them

He’s such an enabler

Welcome to the club! My name is Russell and I’m a bassresource-a-holic

3rd one in that same spot, the first two came much easier

That some wild stuff. We have several places where water goes underground for a ways, but not many people explore them. The “Lost Sea” is about the extent of my exploring and it’s a tourist attraction haha

Oh dear . Now there’s one I’m not going at with a fillet knife

I was going to suggest the gas vent but didn’t want to sound like a smarty-pants

Every time I think I have a big fish on the line, I pull the anchor up To fight the fish. Big fish while anchored has better odds of breaking the line

I can’t even transport shad from the cast net to the bucket without them dying haha. Fragile little boogers

If you’re 20hp has a rip cord, one $75-80 dual purpose battery will be fine. It not, get two lead acid batteries for $150 instead of a single battery for $150. No reason on earth to have an expensive battery to start 20 horse engine

I would just keep enjoying the ride

The next lesson you will learn is that when you take a measuring tape and a scale you will never catch a big one (Murphy’s Law of measurement)

Momma said alligators are ornery because they got all them teeth and no toothbrush

That’s what our highland reservoirs look like in winter (except there are trees on the bank) They lower them all 30-40 feet every winter for flood storage