TnRiver46

I’ve almost done that a few times but always caught myself

The vertical rod holders guarantee a broken rod as well as a hook in your thigh when you walk by them. I did have rod holders on the sides years ago but it was also a nightmare, I had to climb down from the casting deck every time I wanted a different rod .

My boat has been alarming at low throttle for 3-4 years but I keep driving it. I think this thread was aimed at me, maybe I’ll go canoe fishing after work this evening hahaha. I don’t know how to fix stuff and I can’t stop fishing, not even for a day. Granted, my motor has been to 3 mechanics and still does the same thing. So why do I run a bad motor? Because it’s sitting there ready to fish and I’ve tried 3 mechanics to fix it

I feel ya. I keep an empty Busch light can in mine...... for........ recycling! And that’s a custom wiring job down the gunnels

My cell phone works the opposite way. She is always calling, wondering why I’m not at home. We’ve been together 7.5 years and she still doesn’t understand when “just after dark” is

Because this has already happened in real life a million times. People always do this. Success is through the roof, until the day you actually enter the tournament. Then you come in with 0 keepers, it’s almost a guarantee

They also hanged an elephant in Erwin, TN. There’s a book about it https://blueridgecountry.com/archive/favorites/mary-the-elephant/

I can! Haha

Let’s not forget the game winning touchdown burrow threw right before that field goal that was wiped of for a BS call

Disclaimer: I don’t catch many largemouth so pardon my excitement Crazy day. So they finally started dropping the lakes upstream of me. That means 2 (two) 30,000 acre lakes have to come down 30 feet for the winter. All that water has to come rushing by my house, and it started in earnest on Monday. I got off work and told my buddy to meet me at the boat ramp. When I arrived at home, my fiancé’s car is blocking my truck and boat. I can’t find her keys and she’s not answering.......... I start trying to wiggle the boat out but finally she calls me and tells me where the keys are, my buddy has been at the ramp 30 minutes haha. When I launch the boat, I can tell the current is rolling, I say to my buddy this should push a lot of fish up onto the bank. Sounds like a good plan but we always fish the bank anyway, it’s just a narrow river channel with boat traffic up the middle. Got a dink spotted bass and dink smallmouth with a worm, I decided the skunk is gone so just throw the frog, my new favorite the booyah toad runner. I missed 3 dinks immediately then BLAM!!! Got a largemouth maybe pushing 3 lbs. I was pretty excited about that and my buddy said let’s go fish the barge ties with Texas rigs. The current was so fast I cut the motor about 100 yards upstream of them and starting drifting towards them, why not chuck the frog into a creek mouth on the way down. BLAM! I catch a largemouth a little bigger than the first one. I normally get smallmouth, I found it wild that the big wave of current ignited the largemouth. I’ll take it!

Momma says alligators are ornery cuz they got all them teeth and no toothbrush

I always tell customers never to worry about where squirrels go or where they are coming from, it's an exercise in futility. They will be back!

Yes, I saw them get a lot of usage on the pro tours this season

We are allowed to use 3 hooks in Tennessee but I hate throwing that mess

@galyonj is the wacky rig master. Had some river buddies even deliver a new fishing shirt and two goose breasts out on the water. Eventful day

Where did you fish?

I’ve never been to either but from what I understand, old hickory is more of a shallow cover largemouth type lake, where Percy priest has a lot more big smallmouth mixed in

Hahaha! Luckily I’m not there yet. My spelling is starting to go, though......

Gracious. It's steamy in the middle of the night here

got a meanmouth last night

There are more boats than water on chickamauga Hahahaha! I'll have your finest big Mac and a 1987 Merlot

What's a rod locker??? Mine are in a pile on the left side of the center console haha

Yes to the first question, no to the second. My question is how did the solo seining mission with trekking poles go?

Ah, one of the great mysteries of the brown bass. Here today, gone tomorrow. I just keep going day after day until I run into them again, it’s all part of the fun

Alaska I sometimes encounter the big largemouth on the rivers as well