TnRiver46

I want in on that action!!! Maybe one day

Yeah, this was just stocker rainbows and it was back when the Y2K and San Juan worm were newish (to me anyway). Some of the guides tie only natural drab nymphs and anything else they consider low brow, almost as bad a bait chucking haha. Me, I’ll fish with anything

I’ve eaten them a million times but actually cooked them for the first time this summer. My neighbor gave me a bunch and said “fry them in a skillet like you would fish fillets, just add salt, pepper, and sugar to the cornmeal.” By golly it was delicious, and fish is the only food item I know how to cook

My buddies used to tie up egg patterns in colors like you have there on the table for pellet fed monster trout. One of the older, more purist type guides walked in and saw all the wild colors on the tying table and said “did Walt Disney barf on here?”

I think we still have mostly the native spots that they call “Kentuckies” with the exception of a few places like nickajack and chickamauga which are very close to Georgia and Alabama. I think fontana lake in NC also has them, which also makes sense because I think they are in several NC lakes. Having fished for Alabama spots in their home waters many times, i wouldn’t be surprised if they took over the world and started eating humans. They are bad to the bone

Eat them fried green or pick them and put in the window sill inside. They will ripen off the vine

forget the jerk bait, why are you guys wearing garbage bags on your head??

Why would you need to walk a frog? They eat them pretty good when they are sitting still

Abrams creek in the smoky mountains has smallmouth on the lower end below abrams falls

Reminds me of East TN. Pressure treated wood lasts 10 years here, sometimes less. My buddy was building a fence the other day and said “but this is pressure treated, it should last forever, right?” and we all got a healthy laugh. The only wood that lasts decades around here has to be alive

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