TnRiver46

Buddy you’ve put more effort and thought into this than anyone I’ve ever heard. I would just keep flipping rocks

Send them to me! I don’t even hunt and I love them. I’m sure you remember the pastrami threads from last goose season

Fontana!!!

Why sell that???

I’m not sure on the teal but there’s an early goose sept 1 and there’s still way too many geese everywhere. They encourage quite a liberal goose harvest but most people don’t fool with them. Here’s the pic I just received

You need one with an orange T on it....... Worked out well for this guy

And beans. I’ve dabbled in guiding for over a decade, still do it, but rarely does it make anyone rich. Most guides sleep on couches, winter is tough unless you are in Florida. Successful guides either work Alaska summer and Florida winter (or something similar) or guide trout in the Rockies and are skiing instructors in winter. Or they married up a tax bracket

Surely I will find one in a tree one day

I already had a buddy send me a pic of a 20” smallmouth (alive) and a dead goose

Caught the heck out of crawfish with a seine this weekend. They didn’t catch fish nearly as well as helgrammites

Whopper plopper, ned rig, vision 110 all fall into this category for me

Dove and goose in East TN opens today

That’s awesome, congrats! Is that a largemouth?

Got off work and cut the grass, my fiancé says she needs to go outside for a while, like maybe a boat ride. Bingo! Only had about an hour but got a small largemouth and a rock bass with speed worm. There’s some thick vegetation near my house so I threw the ribbit around (thanks for the inspiration @scaleface). Some massive fish blows it up pretty quickly and I missed it, fairly certain I set the hook way too early. My fiancé says it’s going to rain and we have to leave so I convinced her to let me try one more bank across the channel. Blam! A 20”+ smallmouth smashed the ribbit and the fight was on. Luckily I had 65 lb braid and I could see 3/0 round bend hook right in the cheek. He jumped what seemed like a hundred times but never came off. It’s crazy because the fish that i missed blew up the frog twice as hard

Luckily I have a dozen or so rivers to choose from. Was it a flood that destroyed you river?

I have several smoker friends that wouldn't dream of tossing their butts. In fact as a group, I would say they are the most environmentally friendly of my friends. They even pay extra for the all natural tobacco

He already mentioned he can only legally use 3 hooks in the OP. It seems most threads have a “that’s illegal in Minnesota” clause....... are your prisons always at max capacity?? ?

You didn’t realize this would happen before you moved to California? Just kidding guys...... go A’s!

I don't even smoke and im offended by this post. The world is full of different folks, gotta learn to live with them all. More love is the answer, it comes back around

One of my college buddies that now lives in Memphis comes into town two weekends a year to fish for smallies. He was set to arrive Friday just short of the hurricane remnants, luckily the weatherman was wrong as usual. TVA was also preparing for big rain by cutting the current back to minimum flows, which bodes well for shallow water smallies. Friday afternoon we had good low water conditions scheduled until about 8 pm. I tried cast netting some minnows but only got one small sucker. A dink smallmouth ate that right away, looking like this journey is artifical baits the rest of the way. Not 5 minutes after we ran out of bait, my buddy boats a 19" smallie on a keitech in some rapids, pressure is off now. We proceed to catch tons and tons of small fish all the way down the river with a few decent ones mixed in. we hit a spot on the way back to the ramp and got a walleye and spotted bass and got to see a barge going upriver in the dark. Fun evening with no rain We woke up to some strong winds and drizzle Saturday so we took our time getting to the water. It had almost quit completely until we launched in these conditions..... Didn't even need rain gear as it's pretty hot and just thick drizzle, it cleared off before we stopped driving the boat. Today we were more determined to get some live bait since we had way more time. We got one minnow with the cast net but decided to try a siene. We got some.crawdads and several helgrammites (grampus as the old timers call them). We anchored up in some shoals and the helgrammites started getting bit immediately. I think we caught 6 catfish, 2 drum, 3 mooneye, and several smallmouth rather quickly, the best of which being 18.5 inches. We did one more bait run and ran out very quickly, back to artifical for the afternoon. We ended up getting a couple decent 16-17" fish this way and I got a 20" dragging a tube in 3-4 feet of water. Sunday brought a beautiful sunrise..... Only problem was someone backing up on the bridge to take a picture of it...... We didn't catch anything but dinks, saw some huge fish blowing up shad. My buddy had to drive back to Memphis at noon so we headed back to the takeout. On our way back, some friends we had seen on the water sent us this pic of a 21" monster After taking the boat out, I Had some more buddies wanting to fish the afternoon. Quick lunch break and I launch again, TVA realized the rain was gone and started pumping. We tried a different tributary that was still low and my friend got a nice 18" with his new baitcaster he was so proud of swimming a jig in the rapids. We still had all my nets in the boat, found some shad and caught a few more dinks. What a weekend!

Just another Tuesday!

Never purchase anything unless you ask exactly how much it costs first haha

Congrats on 3rd, good luck on the bar!

Absolutely. I think it’s almost a tropical rainforest designation on the east side, one of the wettest parts of America. Humidity is at max levels all the time, its sweltering. Temps usually hover around 88 in summer, with some exceptions. 2013 or somewhere near there we had some over 100 days but that’s the only time I can recall weather that hot in my entire life. Now up on mount Leconte, not far (as the crow flies) from Knoxville, it’s never hot and they get like 70 inches of snow a year. Of course this is inside the national park and you can only stay there a night at a time and it’s costly haha

Good gracious. We didn’t hit that all year, and rarely ever do