TnRiver46

@Texas Flood, here’s some!! you can see Cori’s raccoon in the first pic, she even throws it for herself

Mink oil

Cuz they don’t bite and I think I’ve seen 2-3 of them in my lifetime. I’d probably love it if it ever worked

It’s because people would rather see 30+ lb limits than 11-12 lb limits. The “under” is 16 and over is 24”, and you can only have a single over which most don’t catch

My wife got video of those little birds and posted it on instagram 😂. We paddled up into the rapids and floated back to the dam, she caught a sunfish right in the parking lot and the smallie I caught was (i think) just above the bridge in the only place I couldn’t see the bottom

Holy smokes

Crap! I forgot to watch. Tuning in now

The wife sent me fishing after work so I obliged. Caught some on a 2” smoke grub and the LM/SM hit a larger 4 inch watermelon grub. The Okuma Hakai paired on the Cerros rod was bombing the larger grub nicely, had it rigged on a shakey head. I also included some rock bass photos for @gim I totally should have used the tiny rock bass for live bait but I didn’t think about it until after I let it go

3# 19” SMB??? Yes please!!!!

It definitely is, looked good yesterday on the way to and from work. Perry’s mill is where we floated Tuesday, was tough fishing

Drums….. the fish that eat my hooks

I’m the oddball, I like the bronze one the best! There, I said it

I’d guess nobody bet on that !

Thanks @Swamp Girl, there was a smallie involved as well once my wife showed up so there are some additional pics in the latest bass thread

Aren’t the pacers up 2-0? Or was is just that Halliburton’s shot won the first game ?

That’s a hawg

Only one of our three plays with toys. Shes 14 yr old Pyrenees mix and goes bonkers if you said “get your squirrel!” Or “get your raccoon!” She also likes to chase a ball out in the fence, all the way up to deflated basketballs haha

I’d say north county is just different because I’ve posted on here many times, you can catch LM, SM, and spots on 3 consecutive casts to the same exact spot here. Smallies don’t have to act differently than largemouth just because they are a different color. They eat the same stuff. I catch them plenty in standing timber dragging a worm thru it , although there is only one (young) lake in my entire region that has any standing timber All other reservoirs were created in the 1920s-1940s as part of the new deal and all timber is rotted away. And we’ve never had a drought

A day on the Little River I’ll start with the evening and work back to the afternoon. My wife works in the mountains often and one of our buddies was wanting to scout a small section of water for smallies/sunfish close to her work. Rachel caught a redbreast sunfish with a grasshopper fly while we were just bobbing around at the access point. I caught a decent little SMB with a 2” smoke grub further upstream. Pretty view but right next to a loud road and some guy with the loudest lawnmower in history 😂 Rewind back in time to earlier in the day, I had a midday doctor appt. I was freed up around 1:30 or so and drove up into the national park for some fly fishing. I waded maybe 1/3 mile stretch and landed two rainbows, missed and lost several more, one of which looked to be a fairly nice one. When wading the smokies, it helps to have some flow info so you don’t get swept away or drive an hour only to find a raging torrent. There is a gauge downstream of where I was fishing online but the deep dive app has any little tiny creeks all the way to the big rivers charted. I was fishing in this area I believe the blue stream is the waterfall/creek you can see coming into the river I was fishing in one of my photos Busy day, fun times!