TnRiver46

That’s the way I do it!!! Sometimes people catch skinny fish and just assume they are spawned out, you never truly know unless you cut it open. I’ve cut open plenty of fish I was told were “big females” only to find out it was a male that just ate a bluegill. An 8.9 up in the NE might not even still be spawning, they give up when they are old just like some humans haha

Nah man, you didn’t screw up! Life happens when it happens, you’ll get after those fish!!!

Since @Glenn provides an awesome website that I check like 700 times a day at no cost to me, I figured why not support a site sponsor (and catch bass in the process)

And you make fish-catching jigheads and lures !

Fishing has been my one and only hobby/pastime, mental therapy, and main source of food since I could form memories “REALLY enjoy” is an gross understatement

Lunch?? On the water?? I can’t ever find any. Once my friend cast a lure up in the top of a tree. Not the part near the water, the top of the tree. He’s trying to stand up as tall as possible and get the plug back, taking forever. We finally asked him what the heck he was doing in that tree and he said “I thought there was a snack bar in here somewhere”

Gotcha. I’m not brave enough to paddle open waters unless the water is up close to 60 degrees or higher. someone drowned flipping a canoe on chickamauga Saturday. Granted 3 people in it and zero life jackets, but I still just stay near the bank.

Safety first! Also if you put a downrigger on a kayak, you weren’t thinking “safety first” I don’t have any cold water immersion clothing, I just don’t paddle very far from the bank and wear PFD

Negative but I think the guy told us it was easy and ready to install one and same with a trolling motor. I haven’t paddled tons of sit on top kayaks but it seems very fast compared to others

Good advice! And yes I use her kayak when she’s not looking . Our local outfitter had a 30% off blemished sale, I’m not sure what the blemish was on the boat we bought but I think it was paint color scheme related

It’s like owning a car that you don’t drive everyday. It will mess up, just be ready! There is no way to predict how much it costs, Murphy’s law is the main variable

I let a possum go once and it ran right into another trap I had set

If I know Gary like I think I did, he’s feeling a lot better now

A life well lived. RIP Gary

Kevin has also beaten clunn, Klein, and Nixon I’m sure. It’s like when Kevin Durant hits a late shot in two different NBA finals to beat Lebron, everyone says lebron is better??? It’s just a “who is your favorite” type thing

It goes wherever it wants to, there’s no rule they must follow. And if there were such a rule, the Bass wouldn’t know about it and would still do whatever they want

Thanks for tangible information!

I’ve received one the last two or three Christmases haha

That’s the good stuff. My local watering hole actually sells those “champagne “ bottles of high life around holidays

Scuppernong and motoroil worms are excellent for bass from here down to the Gulf of Mexico. A lot of folks make scuppernong wine out of the fruit, I always understood it as a champagne colored muscadine, or as we say in TN/NC “musky dimes”

“Jordan lee would never win without a 250 horsepower “ is the equivalent of the electronics argument

Never mind....... I should have listened to @DitchPanda

Well if buck perry could use today’s electronics, so could the other people he fished against. That’s all I’m sayin

I smell what you’re stepping in.

Mmmmmmmmmm