TnRiver46

Great read!!! First question: what the world is is a hornpout??? I think I’m using the tackle A-jay had in the 70s. I literally still have a couple rusted de-liars with the tiny hook that won’t hold a fish (no clue why I still have them) I can’t say for sure what stage I’m in, let’s call it “stage 6.” Basically i have to go fishing (or at least be on or near the water). I’m sure I could survive without going fishing, but it would be in an asylum or prison. If I don’t go fishing for anytime longer than a week straight, my personality turns sour. I have to fight hard to keep from freaking out inside my brain without fishing. I think and read about fishing pretty much all day and night when I’m off the water (thanks a million bass resource and @Glenn). I have been locked into this “stage 6” since age 2 from what I’ve been told. There is no cure other than fishing. I don’t necessarily care what size, species, or number of fish we catch, I just need to go fishing really really bad. Like I posted somewhere, I fish for trout and I don’t even like them. Maybe I’ll go after some hornpout one day! (Probably not as I imagine they are nowhere near my house). I suppose I was born to go fishing somewhere deep inside my being. Fish are also my main source of food. Sure I’d rather have beef tenderloin all the time but it costs money and I have to drive to a grocery store and walk all through it to acquire beef. Let’s take a poll: would you rather drive to a grocery store and walk all through it or go fishing? Pretty simple for me. Also I would always rather go fishing with other people as opposed to alone. I feel like most experiences in life are better when shared with others, kind of like the final lesson that Alexander supertramp (Christopher mccandless) learned the hard way (Into the Wild is the name of the book/movie). He wanted to be alone in the wild and his final message was to share experiences with other humans, the opposite of what he was doing in the school bus in which he lived in remote Alaska

I’m a glutton for punishment. It’s like being a Tennessee vols fan

Let’s just say I’d opt for the 33. I don’t even know what a zillion is but it sounds expensive

If you claim to be a middle eastern prince , I’ll do it!

Amen brother!

Never look a gift horse in the mouth

And now most companies have a “ned worm,” not just z man. Roboworm, missle baits, even the googans

I kind of look at this entire thing the opposite way. Livescope makes fishing too easy? Y’all must be joking!!!! Rigging that thing up to work just right is way more difficult than putting a canoe into the river and just fishing. Also, acquiring the amount of money that livescope costs is way more difficult than just going fishing. Everyone thinking it’s “cheating “ or “too easy” is about 500 steps ahead of me (and a few tax brackets above me). All this new technology is difficult and complicated to me, basically the opposite of easy or cheating

Nobody has mentioned ned rig yet? That thing sells like hot cakes ever since they put the name “ned” to it

I get to go fishing year round several times a week so I have lots of different motives depending on the day. Sometimes I need fish for food, sometimes I want to catch 50 white bass to feel them thump a small jig over and over, and sometimes I just want a 20”+ smallmouth . Other times I troll for walleye, might even stand on the bank and target bluegills with 4 lb test. I even fish for trout every now and then and I hate everything about trout fishing. Then ive got several buddies that will call and say “let’s go crappie fishing or let’s go catfishing” and that’s what we do. When it’s super windy I will just stand on the dock down at my lake house and set out crawlers for drum

I learned how to travel back in time! I, Bill dance, was slim and trim back in the 70s

Hahah! I don’t have a computer or tablet, but I do have an iPhone . I don’t have a microphone? Probably could find ear buds but the new phones no longer have a headphone jack . I think they issued me an adapter upon purchase that I’ve surely lost My fiancé’s dad has a jitterbug phone with big buttons and I’m insanely jealous

That sums it up! I’ve guided for 12 years and I would rather take friends out for free and make money other ways. But I gotta stike when the iron is hot so I still guide some to make ends meet. I thought it was my dream job in ‘07 when I got hired out of college, now I’d rather trap skunks and rats hahaha

Malarky !

6 or 8 lb mono. I’ve had them spool my reels at the store, no more! My mom used to do it for us when we were kids and they always overfill

That’s all you ever need to put a hurtin on winter smallies

I believe he was referring to the processes that one must go through to become certified. The govt doesn’t allow “anyone” to be a guide

That’s a myth all across the US. I had a diver for TVA as a customer once, he said it’s all BS because you can’t see 3 inches at the bottom of a dam when diving

Chickamauga........ your limiting factor there is fishing pressure. There’s a lot of folks on that very pond that throw shakey head and win lots of money let that sink in for a minute now your glide baits and swim baits will surely catch fish and some big ones at that. But the main lures that win tourneys on chick are A rig, rattle trap, and frog. Honorable mention to jerkbait and under spin. seriously, chickamauga is the most boats I’ve ever seen anywhere. It’s ridiculous, the bass are the smartest in the USA. Guaranteed.

You should have been, a carp will slam a whopper plopper about twice a decade

Perfect! Concrete ruins them quick

I think I’ve seen that too!

I know what you mean. On the other hand I come from the school of trying to eliminate pests and it’s impossible, so I think the bass will be just fine

50 lb bag?! That is awesome So what you’re saying we need is something even NEWER??? Like laser beams that shoot the fish when located....... hahah

In sportsman’s paradise Louisiana? I call bull......... I have been fishing on Christmas and had a guy with a Santa hat ski by I’ve also heard a few people That had livescope from jump street say that fish are already getting used to it and not biting like they were when it first came out. For every gadget humans come up with, wild critters adapt and stay one step ahead