TnRiver46

Atta boy

We get the same thing every year, there are even several different names for it. Right now we are in dogwood winter haha. Fish are accustomed to it by now, it’s why they don’t jump on the first chance to spawn and they don’t all do the same thing at the same time

I just figured everyone gets more and bigger fish than me so they don’t listen Also it’s not a ned rig so nobody throws it! I’ve seen those big LM that cover up your entire bump board, keep doin whatcha doin!

Every time I think I fish a purple worm too much, I get another fish

He’s a lot more patient than I am!

Congrats! They make new rods everyday, you got what counted!!

Sounds right up my alley

They will gladly chomp crawdads too if you can buy them

Didn’t get out til 6:30, but got 4 fish on the fist 4 casts . We had fairly non stop action until dark. Had cut bait out once again with no action, water temp up to 56 and might go higher as it’s predicted to slow down a bit for the first time in a while . Caught white bass, yellow bass, yellow perch, skipjack herring, and a smallmouth

Crumpled . It takes me a week of planning, several friends, a lot of rope, and a lot of luck to get those kind of results. Mother Nature be like “hold my beer..... wham!

Congratulations!!! I see many big spotted bass in your future

My buddy caught this smallie today........ I sent the pic to some friends and they said “you should have seen how beat up the eagle was “

Gotcha. I’ve seen some bass floating around after tournaments but it’s usually near the boat launch . Sounds like yours may have been struggling from natural causes like @Scott F mentioned but it’s hard to say

Are there any tournaments nearby?

I lived on the course, fished a lot. I’m a hardened criminal But seriously I can’t claim that, I guess @OCdockskippergets that title for this thread. The people that told me to leave just lived on the ponds right across from me , they weren’t authority figures but I still quit fishing when they asked even though they were very stupid

I was also unaware standing in your own backyard was trespassing

I was indeed fishing. I had as much right to fish that pond as the moron from New Jersey who stocked exotic carp in it, he lived across the pond from me. He said I couldn’t fish there because I was going to kill his vegetarian carp with a senko. Instead of pushing him into the water like I should have, I was the adult and went back inside. I was 20 something and he was in his 70s.

If you end up in front of a judge for fishing a pond, your govt has too much time on their hands

I didn’t sneak, I lived there

In TN it would be easier to get the motor running than to register the boat. My buddy inherited one from his great grandpa in Arkansas and had to go to the courthouse several times and back to Arkansas to straighten it all out. Had to get get signatures from two of the deceased’s sisters, the whole process took a year

That looks like striper candy

I lived in a condo on a golf course from 6th grade til college and snuck in a lot of fishing, I can’t throw stones at anyone. I also rented a condo with 4 buddies on the same course a few years after college. Needless to say I got ran off the ponds a few times . One lady told me I was going to catch a goose and I had to leave and another told me I was going to kill his precious grass carp with a senko and needed to leave. I know more about fish than any of these morons, People need to lighten up