TnRiver46

Most definitely. I just have better luck imitating the bluegills

I’m sure everyone will have to scale back a bit on account of the lockdown

I try to imitate bluegill during the mayfly hatch. Bluegill eat the bugs, bass eat the bluegill

Awesome!!!

It would get stuck where you like to throw

Ah. Well it smells like a football locker room, garbage, and rotten fruit all mixed together...........

I’ve been close to a few that I never saw but certainly smelled. It is a foul aroma

If you’ve got a stout rod, lock it down. If you use the same cheap rods I do, lock it down then back it off a touch. But seriously I would guess you can break that leader if you swing hard enough so I would either loosen it a tad or don’t set super hard (not Easy for excitable fishermen like me )

43,000 acres? I didn’t know it was that big. I’ve only been on a couple natural lakes in my life, that would be pretty fun!

I recently compared the two in my very specific fish book because I’ve been catching a lot of redbreast. The one characteristic of the redbreast that was helping me was the red fin tips but I don’t guess yours has that @NYWayfarer, I just looked up habitat range of each and you may be outside of longear range but lots of redbreast in your area ^source cited

We are the southern boundary of a lot of northern fish species habitat range.

Thrice? Ouch

I have vertical rod holderS on my center console and they are useless. All my buddies stick their rods in there as soon as they get in the boat (against my recommendation) then saw them in half with a sidearm cast. The first time I paddled my fiancé’s kayak I knocked one out of a holder with a paddle. I don’t like rod holders......

You must have gotten a bad Jeep. I’ve seen standard cherokees pull yachts, but they were the inline 6 motors, some of the torquing-est engines I’ve ever seen

I have found colder places than MS...... hahaha

Floro on a spinning reel? Brave......

The hottest places I know of Are all inland of the gulf just slightly. The beach feels better than being somewhere In the pines with no breeze

Bird feeders are my main source of business as a trapper. If you feed birds, you feed mice, chipmunks, rats, squirrels, skunks, raccoons, and sometimes even groundhogs and bears. I keep a 901 daisy power line .177 at the ready for squirrels that avoid traps, it’s a tack driver

I’m so old the ones I used to fish off of were not inflatable

I’ve tried night fishing, turns out I cannot stay awake at night, especially driving the truck

Catfish

They were all over the poor mans ned rig this evening. Caught a little bit of everything from about 645-930, including a 20.5 inch smallmouth. Water temp just under 66 for all your northerners fishing 80 degree lily pads with frogs

That would be sweet! I just don’t know of any