TnRiver46

White bass will teach you lots about flats

@Hook2Jaw, You might want to fish in areas with lower budgets for the "school" systems....

Primus is good stuff, lot of songs about fishing

And dodge

8 lb that broke a stringer and the roll of film was double exposed . Remember rolls of film?? I wish I didn't.....

It’s definitely not ideal but without an engine, I’m guessing the boat would be pretty light.

My mom has the outback with 6 cylinders, it feels like it would yank a stump out of the ground. I’m guessing your is a 4 cylinder?

Always the best in my experience

Come on down! Haha. There are colder rivers just to the north, east, and south full of trout as well. Dams can do magical things....... as you might imagine the air is plenty warm, it’s the water coming from the bottom of deep lakes that is cold

Hank 3 is pretty weird! But I listen to several of his songs

The water never gets much above 75 in downtown Knoxville, it’s still in the upper 60s right now. Down the lake it gets to 85 some years but near my house it’s always cold

Love jethro tull!!! but I listen mostly to bluegrass. It’s “weird” that they can make music without electronics.......

My old man checked out of this world early and my grandpa could barely move around by the time I was old enough to really fish (although he taught me tons through conversation). This was all in the early-mid nineties before the whole world got stupid and my mother MADE SURE that she found positive male role models to take me fishing. And she found a lot of good ones! Folks like Phil LaFoy (and his whole family), Larry Johnston, Eric Herzbrun, Kelley Bailes, my cousin Joel Sampsel, Mark Ross, Max Hazelwood, Jeff Wadley, Jerry Russell, and many many others took time out of their busy family lives to take me and my brother fishing and teach us volumes. And as everyone knows, you learn a lot about life and being a good person on these fishing trips, not just how to Texas rig a worm. I can never thank all of these people enough, especially Mom. She of course took me fishing way more than anyone, even though she could have cared less about fishing herself.

So you are near saint Louis?? I would ditch your pond and jump into the back of @scaleface ‘s truck before he goes fishing

A preacher jig will be your most popular one for the TN river. Check Scott martins video from the FLW on ky lake last years tour season (maybe 2 years ago but I think it was last year). Most folks seem to crank the handle quickly and the stop it. Don’t overthink the hair jig, it’s ancient and nothing but hair on a jig. Matching size is probably way more important than brand or shape. I’ve seen SPRO hair jigs in the store also as far as the ledge bite, it hasn’t been super great on the TN river yet this year. I’m also way upstream but most guys on the recent chickamauga super tourney weren’t really fishing true ledges, just shallowish areas offshore. Don’t rule out shallow fishing

Deep!!! Why? I don’t know, I just like it

From my understanding, almost all lakes up north have good largemouth fishing

I wonder how many times someone will catch the same fish over and over with the bedding smallmouth

I still like the skirts better, buzzbait is probably my favorite strike ever

Went to moms for dinner and a little storm went by, the sky looked wild

Haha! I’ve fished many a Christmas Day in a t shirt sweating

Sometimes I think people like buying fishing stuff more than fishing.........

Glad to hear your old man is doing better. On @BassNJake’s home water, I regularly have fish come up 20 ft to hit a spook. But these are open water fish suspended in up to 100 ft of water

I wish I could just not see how Jerry handles anything but we all know ESPN and Ed werder won’t let that happen