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Let’s float! Fished it two days ago 😂 looked stained this morning and straight chocolate below the dam in Rockford

I’m listening to the hartwell tournament as we speak…..

Strike king bitsy tube and gitzit

Cats like turkey meat too

I’ve seen some of them lose a bet and have to wear all kinds of hilarious stuff, costumes, masks, etc. Or even carry a monstrous stuffed banana. I think DC was just the only one going that far in the rain and needed to see

He wore it because it was pouring rain the entirety of a 70 mile drive

Rattle trap

Parking downtown is an art form that takes a lifetime to master 😂 By march the basketball season will be in tournaments and there’s no football so it will be easier. I’m sure they will open a lot of the garages for parking, the students don’t use too many spots after 3-4 pm. I know lots of secret ninja spots to park so holler at me if needed. Some of the hotels have parking garages within walking distance of everything I fished the whole time in ‘23 but I went in ‘19 to weigh ins and expo and it wasn’t too tricky I think @Glenn stayed at the Marriott in ‘23 weigh in is at food city center basketball arena, expo is at Knoxville convention center I believe, and take off is from volunteer landing. All walking distance from each other. Calhouns is a good restaurant to park at, might have to get a pork sandwich to make it look good

My in-laws go bonkers when I take them catfish, and I didn’t brain wash them haha. They request them by name, pretty tasty

@Swamp Girl, I like dinosaurs

The multi million (maybe billion ) dollar farm raised catfish industry disagrees with you

Even I’m not eating that

Happens every time !

Cool photos! I think that’s a barred owl they say: ”who cooks for you, who cooks for y’aaalllll” @GRiver, they come in all sizes , the screech owl and saw whet owl are small while the great horned owl is eagle sized

Enjoy the time off Skeet, you’ve earned it!

I wish we had pickerel ! Or pike….. or bowfin…. Love the toothy critters it is somewhat odd these fish exist all over the eastern US but not here

20-22” smallmouth can’t get enough of them. I’ve caught some nice ones but this one sure stands out in my memory. Might even be a “PB” as the kids say, but I didn’t find the scale until after I let it go haha. I put them on a jig head, would definitely second ditching the bobber. If it’s cold outside, they will chew on the crawlers. It probably works when it’s hot outside too but hot worms are nasty so I haven’t tried that much. They will last for weeks in the cold unless they freeze all the way

My brother made gumbo Friday night. He was nervous because he’s from East TN and lives in Philly, yet a gal from mobile, AL was dining with us and is of course a gumbo expert (naturally). Turned out pretty delicious!

Bomber long A? Anytime!

I rented a stump grinder once, it’s a wild ride

@Darth-Baiter, Bob feeds them to his pond bass but I freeze them sometimes and smallies love them . The only problem is hiding them from my wife in the freezer.

Catfishing is really good here, so much so that there are a few successful YouTubers that only fish catfish. They even do bait comparison videos. Flatheads are widely considered the most piscivorous (they even taught us that in college). Therefore you would imagine live bait is best but in their videos, cut skipjack always gets the big flatheads over live bait. They catch way better cats than me

You can tell for sure by cutting them open. Only way to guess is probably by size, male LMB usually aren’t much over 4 lbs but there are exceptions. Maybe you could squeeze them and see what comes out? 😂 I don’t know, sounds a little personal