TnRiver46

Those two reservoirs and a few others are so deep they move slowly most of the time and the lower ends stay clear almost all the time. Check out south holston and watauga too!

I always use bullet weights for drop shot . I just tie them on with an improved clinch knot, I’ve never owned a bobber stopper

I have seen that. I still have itchy tick bites where the sun doesn’t shine and I slept in clothes in a tent. Needless to say I would never sign up to sleep naked outside

The worst ones that ever got after me were in Alaska. They weren’t massive like the SC version but they made up for it in numbers

Realistically, I don’t think a single person will ever forget 2020

The night time mosquitos in the SC low country have teeth . I’m still scratching from when I camped at edisto in June

Nah you’ll be fine, they are just hard to catch in oct/nov. they eat like sharks when it’s snowing

Nice! Two 7 lb in one year and I might consider retiring

Like I said , I can’t even snag a carp and they are easy to see haha. Our waters aren’t very clear, I’ve rarely seen a spawning bass in a reservoir

I got a 21” largemouth on a rapala husky jerk, probably my biggest bass of 2020. Biggest smallmouth was in April, can’t recall the lure though. Bitsy tube if I had to guess. I think the largemouth was just over 4&1/2 lb and the smallie was 4 even or so

Cherokee is awesome when it’s cold outside. The big tourneys they had there this year were in the horrible fishing period of the “ fall transition.” When they have tourneys there in February, they catch the heck out of fish. Even the guys in the fall tourney said they could see hundreds of smallmouth on the livescope but couldn’t make them bite. Fish in East TN are already one step ahead of Garmin

Haha! We call it evil Williams

“Come on down, the water’s fine”

Step 1: tell your friends to come fishing with you . Step 2: hand them a tool belt when they arrive then start cutting bait and fishing . Step 3: make sure the people you invite are good with drywall mud

My New Years resolution is to let @Jigfishn10 take me onto the ocean in his new rig ............ I’ll bring the motion sickness meds

Sailor take warning!

Well no wonder you don’t see them often! They are very easy to tell apart down this way, they have large black blotches on their sides and no white fin tips

He’s in the Windy City, home of the 2016 World Series champs

Haha! Well certainly not a guarantee, especially up in your chilly waters

You didn’t even see what you did there??!??!!!

I grew up on the top of a huge hill, bicycles didn’t help with fishing whatsoever. Lance Armstrong couldn’t pedal up it. I caught the same ole stuff then as I do now: Bluegill, white bass, drum, carp, catfish, snapping turtles, perch, walleye, sauger, crappie, etc. But I required adult transportation

People catch them somewhat frequently in the TN river. I’ve caught 2 lake sturgeon muskie is one thing we have around here that I never fish for and have never caught. The state of Tennessee has an insane amount of fish species (a little over 300) and I’ve caught a good many of them. Just no desire at all to fish for Muskie, people carry on like they are so precious I don’t even want to get into that kind of fishing.

They don’t “know” they are being fished for. They just know they don’t want to die and they look at being caught as dying. They have been practicing the skill of “not dying” aka survival for a couple million years

That a darn fine reel still today