TnRiver46

we are sending a lot of current down toward pickwick!

I agree! #1) mining people’s fish photos for location data has to seriously mess up your fish karma #2) if that is someone’s strategy for finding good spots, that’s a person you don’t have to worry about catching “your fish” because they will forever be one step behind you

Goodness gracious! Nice ones

Da..... bears

Awesome!

I ain’t skeerd

That sounds pretty awesome!

I love a minnow on a jig head. Why do it do it? Because it catches fish of all species very well

That’s mostly true where I fish as well

I can do snow but cold rain sucks

You mean you don’t like fishing in the pouring rain when it’s 37 degrees ?? Yeah me neither

Pickwick is wide gushing river at the upper end and basically an ocean with lots of sailboats on the lower end. It’s wild!

Here’s the world record they killed right where I camp every year in Alabama. 15’9” and 1100+ lbs. Here’s a little baby 10-12 footer that didn’t even flinch when a plastic worm came across it’s nose. I have an old photo of a buzzbait sitting on a 13-14 footers head too that never moved. Where we fish, the little ones chase lures and the big ones could care less (the guy in the picture on the trolling motor is 6’10”) alligators are big and tough, but they got nothing on people in south Alabama. If they cause trouble, then end up on a plate. Paraphrasing from memory of the article, Mandy stokes shot the record gator in the middle of the night from a boat in a cypress slough. She hit it once with a 20 gauge and it took off like a rocket still tethered to the catch line and slammed their boat into a stump. Then she shot again and finished it off. I won’t even bass fish the area at night because of the bugs and they go lizard hunting in Jon boats

Well your suffix siege is way cheaper than any Fluorocarbon so that kind of goes against your point there. Then again I’ve always used the cheapest gear possible and never had any complaints so I’m biased

Good gracious man! Not even a log?

You’re a machine

Feb is a good fishing month in TN. It will be chilly most days but nothing compared to Minnesota

Well, I can’t remember haha

Well I guess they should have caught there own 5.62 lb walleye then! Congrats on that stovepipe

I got skunked Sunday evening and Thursday evening last week. Luckily got one smallie Saturday morning and lost a big one from my hand Or it would have been 3 in a row. Happens to everyone, skunks actually make me much more determined to fish (if that’s even possible)

All I use is a #1 hook and a bullet sinker. Tie the hook on via Palomar knot and leave a long tag end. Tie the bullet weight onto the tag end and viola, drop shot. Never understood using “special sinker” for it when I already have a boat load of sinkers that sink just fine

Yep! And I like eating alligators in Florida also. The pond fishing is second to none in that state. I’ve fished around gators a whole bunch, yet to be eaten. It helps when you aren’t walking a toy dog on a leash near the waters edge

I live in Knoxville, People surprisingly still make all that stuff! you just have to end up sitting around the right campfire with the right old timers. You won’t find them for sale on their webpage! Hahaha

I paddled a perception outlaw the other day and it was a bear. I was paddling twice as hard as my fiancé and she was leaving me in the dust. It felt like I could do a cartwheel on it though, I stood up through some rough waves and rapids

I’ve seen smallmouth brought up from 50’ with a 1/5 mushroom head and TRD. But the lead was too heavy to be a “ned rig” so it didn’t count I guess