TnRiver46

Sturgeon selfie!

That’s more similar to our timeline. We’ve got guys catching crappie full of eggs at 57 degree water right now

Good luck! Hope ya get some big uns

The bass accepted the live bluegill but Dottie didn’t accept the jig in her head

Haha!!! My coworker has a neighbors dog that pees on his tire and on cold mornings his truck won’t break loose and go because the wheels are locked up. He swears it’s because the dog pee froze on them

That’s that Sasquatch you been looking for all along! ive caught two sturgeon but ours were re introduced around the year 2000 so our biggest ones are only 21 years old, not old enough to get as big as that beast you had hooked in the picture . At first glance I thought it was a shark

Wonderful photo! We didn’t have many eagles at all when I was a kid, rarely saw blue herons or ospreys either. Now there are a dozen blue herons that live in every cove, osprey nests on every dayboard marker along the river, and there seems to be 1 nesting pair of bald eagles about every 10-15 miles apart on any river, even some fairly small ones. I’ve even been seeing bald eagles eating roadkill on the side of busy 4 lane highways. It appears to me something has drastically changed, it may have been when they stopped using DDT the birds have just made a slow comeback. Or maybe the improved water quality has just allowed for more shad and in turn more birds? (our water was pretty nasty back before somewhere around the late 90s.) Who knows, but I can tell you we must have an abundance of habitat for fish eating birds. I see lots of loons and cormorants and the occasional flock of pelicans. And we have gulls and terns in the winter

Bank fishing on a reservoir? catching any bass is a pretty good outing

It’s possible, but the first white ones that bloom around here are Bradford pear and cherry They lie! Like a rug...... I was watching ott defoe and Jacob wheeler fishing together on YouTube, discussing past tournaments. They both were recalling a time when Hank cherry got a 10 lb bass off a bed, on chickamauga, in June during a big bass bash. And that’s two hours south of me! Dogwoods bloom earlier than bass spawn here

We don’t have small lakes haha. Technically we don’t have any lakes. I think it’s colder in East TN than Michigan Minnesota and Iowa according to this thread haha

If I had easy access to cheesesteak, they would have to knock a wall out of my house to get me out and bury me

I’ve been trying to catch me some bait! Had a couple skipjack swipe at baits lately but no hookups

Indeed! I love those guys/gals

I’m currently out of catfish bait (skipjack herring) and now she knows where I used to hide them in the freezer........ I might be able to use the freezer at the shop but yes the cats will eat in the muck water

Luckily the river in my backyard is all dam controlled and they don’t allow it to proper flood anymore. There are some free flowing rivers that get flooded pretty bad but for whatever reason the fish are fairly used to it and always ready to bite once it clears up a little. Maybe the terrain is so steep the poor quality water flushed out more rapidly? The big south fork of the Cumberland river floods to insane levels many times a year but you can catch 50 smallies all summer when it’s low. Here’s a line graph of its recent activity. It appears to have gone over 90,000 cfs over the weekend, which is way up through the woods but it’s in a gorge/canyon

Did some recon and went for a ride, I think it was a little colder than expected! That’s not the grim reaper, it’s Rachel wrapped up in all her jackets then wrapped up in my jacket. The water temp eventually settled around 56, that depth finder shot was right when we launched. Went up the holston river a ways and it might have been starting to clear up a tad, also someone’s runabout might be mostly full of rain water

Here’s the dogwood tree in my front yard............... water temps 53-57 nearly everywhere........ I call BS @Sam! our bass typically spawn in may and sometimes June but it varies from year to year. The dogwoods are much more consistent and almost always earlier than spawning bass

Oh dear ............ the Atlantic doesn’t even have waves that big in SC! it appears ive found a solution to the problem, Rachel just got off work and wants to go for a boat ride. It will be like riding through the wonka factory on the chocolate river

Well I live upstream so I actually went downstream and found clear water but i can’t be doing that every afternoon haha. I suppose I can but I’d rather not

My first world problem: the river by my house is nasty, most would call it unfishable. As the old timers say, “It’s so thick you can see raccoon tracks on top of it.” So now I have to drive my truck around looking for better water, and I’m a cheapskate ! I burned up a lot of gas for 1 largemouth yesterday but I did find clear water and 1 largemouth which is more than the zero any kind of fish I would have caught near my house. I even tried fishing the mud water with every lure I could imagine on Saturday, white bass were spawning all over the surface and wouldn’t hit any lures, including rattle traps chatterbaits, umbrella rigs, stuff they always hit even in stained water but this is just too nasty

I now see the dilemma! A lot of our customers have mice get into cars they don’t drive frequently. @J Francho is correct, keep poison in there and make sure it’s fresh! Traps and poison do the same thing, kill mice. Traps are reusable but you gotta reset them unless you use a repeating trap like the bucket suggested above. But if you catch a whole bunch, then you have pretty foul bucket in your boat. The poison at least let’s them have the opportunity to die elsewhere (although they could still die in the boat).

You’ll never get them all but getting rid of the ones that climb into the boat certainly can’t hurt! Do you live near where you store it? Frequent checking of the traps and just looking into the boat often will surely be better than storing it for months without looking inside. I’ve seen mice get into everything, exclusion is literally impossible (my boss claims a mouse went into space with John Glenn according to his journals). If Houston couldn’t keep one out of the space shuttle, I doubt you can keep one from getting under a boat cover. If it was my boat, I would leave traps in there all the time and check them about twice a week. @J Francho, I always wanted to go pro as a kid, who knew it would be going pro in varmints? Haha

Nobody was hurt my foot! I guarantee that hurt

A skateboarding grandpa. Congrats!

I agree. Gin is the devils drink, I know it says 40% alcohol but it feels like 400%