TnRiver46

Live bait is the best bait! Happy birthday Dwight!

It’s an ocean on the bottom half, we’ve nearly broken a bass boat in half . Be careful, only fishing advice I have is for drum haha. Have caught some nice smallies below watts bar dam but I used shad in winter when the water was raging. It will be low ish flow in April

I smell what you’re stepping in, everything I use is bare bones. I’ve got two motor boats, one has a hand operated trolling motor and the other has oars and oar locks. My canoe and kayaks have nothing but a paddle and sometimes an anchor. The gadgets and gizmos just ain’t for me

@Fishlegs, we call my buddy Casey the manatee, his boat ran him over and he drove himself to the hospital while holding his organs in with his other hand. Now he has manatee scars on his belly

When I was on an island in Lake Superior they recommended treating it with drops/tablets in addition to the filter, something about a bacteria. We don’t have to do that at home but wasn’t sure if we had enough fuel to boil water for a week so we treated it all. Drops work way faster than tablets

Ha! Little sweat won’t hurt. It’s never as hot as Georgia! I swear, I don’t know how, but Georgia is hotter than Florida and Alabama combined

Make a fire and boil some ? I use a little camping pump filter but all my friends have the gravity ones now

Holy cow I saw a hail storm come across Lake Michigan once and I was seeking shelter haha. Also had a door ripped out of the frame at a rental we stayed at. Bro in law was solo camping on manitou island only a few miles away in a tent, he said it wasn’t bad at all 🤷‍♂️

Hook isn’t bad compared to a boat propeller

If it’s too hot wearing a life jacket in a kayak, don’t try mowing your lawn in July

Loudoun/tellico only goes down about 6 feet in winter. Douglas is about 40 ft drawdown, Cherokee 30, Norris 20. watauga and south Holston are good SMB lakes, with a pair of waders you can do some serious damage on the rivers inbetween. Once summer hits you can just do it in shorts

Samurai delicatessen!!!

Loudoun/tellico is where I fish but I usually do the river on loudoun. I live near downtown and go upstream I learned to fish on tellico and have a house on it, been pretty great fishing last several years there bank fishing is tough round here, I always try to go below a dam for that.

You still talking Douglas ? My buddy fished a tourney there yesterday and came in 3rd with 3 fish, it’s still in recovery mode and will be for some time. Had the worst flood since they built the dam in October. He did have one nice smallie in his bag but yeah ain’t no weeds in the water around here. Douglas has some nice SMB but Cherokee has way way way more

They don’t necessarily have to go anywhere, they can spawn where they live

Nice bird!!!

Yeah he was famous for catching monsters, on the front of bassmaster and all that. Turns out he was snagging them all, keeping them at home, bringing them to tournaments and weighing them in. Hidden fish compartments in rod lockers, pulling the wool over co anglers eyes, etc. He even caught many of them at lakes he was trespassing into after dark https://www.bassmaster.com/news/americas-big-bass-guru-exposed/

@Bazoo, those are standard bluegill, green sunfish with have blue vermiculation between its eye and mouth. I meant to target stripers today and I did some, but I couldn’t help myself and caught a bunch of other stuff 1 Kentucky spotted bass, 3-4 smallies, lots of white bass, 6 nice crappie, a drum, and a channel catfish. Maybe a couple dozen fish with 6 species, a fun variety pack. I saw some white bass actively spawning, pods of 4-6 climbing all over each other in shallow shoals and splashing water everywhere. Water temp 60-63.