TnRiver46

Anywhere in FLA, so many big green heavies. Or maybe a monster spotted bass in No cali

You described my style perfectly! Probably because I don’t fish for money..... My buddies will Outfish me numbers wise with live bait floating river smallies but I will throw a top water midday and a lot of times get a big ole 20”+ golly whopper hit it so hard I get splashed on the strike Texas rig in deep brush?

You are now the purple worm master and the learning curve was rapid!

Thanks for that! Good read..... day 1 19 lbs gets you in 21st place??? Geez tough crowd!

I use a 10' galvanized water pipe in my canoe and I can go for miles upstream through long swift shoals. Very loud and heavy though, its one hell of a workout haha. It has unlocked several areas I didn't think I could access without two vehicles and floating from point A to point B

We are praying for y'all. Times are tough but not as tough as your old man. I dont much care for fishing alone either but sometimes it's necessary

You have a lot to learn about the purple worm young grasshopper

Loaded question........ It depends......

I caught an eel in the ocean two days ago. Very terrifying. Maybe fiance will send me the video since I smashed my phone on a jetty

If you don’t like the heat, stay outta the kitchen!!

Wheeler won a Forrest wood cup

I don’t know, seems as though they’ve endured worse over the last couple million years I’ve eaten some nasty mess but I don’t think that will be on the menu. Had some friends tell me it’s awful

Now your secret is on the internet haha

x marks the log if you are at Maloney road park

@galyonj, I caught some nice bass on the point out from that dock when I was living in the dorms in college. Always got funny looks riding the elevator and walking to the parking garage with rods. Seems like they might have built a gazebo on the point last I saw, big log jam below it holds bass

Guntersville and chickamauga would definitely be hot but people still catch big uns. Maybe not limits of monsters like they do in winter but a large kicker is still possible. Granted I live 2-3 hours from those spots and rarely go, I’m not so good at the green bass game. I like chasing river smallmouth and big stripers with topwaters in mid august. It will be brutal hot and hard to breathe the thick air anywhere down this way in august, but I’ve been to Philadelphia in summer and it felt just the same haha

@NorcalBassin, down here in hillbilly country, the old timers refer to that smallmouth personality trait as “bite ya as soon as look at ya!” Other creatures like yellow jackets and horseflies have also earned this designation. “I only caught 3 smallmouth, but dem thangz is so mean they’d bite ya soon as look at ya”

This is why I rarely use it, there’s not a single fishing spot without a rock anywhere near me. I keep it on one rod for topwater over milfoil edges

My most expensive combo is probably $50, but I’ve got a lot of used stuff

The clip of rose catching the 9 came across you phone when I was at the shop earlier, he might as well have just hand lined it in. But hey, it worked!

I think you make less than retiring doing that...... haha

Thanks for details and pictures, it’s crazy to me how fast the water warms up that way. Blows my mind every year haha

Also, on the TN river, there should be a green buoy on one side of the river ledge and red on the other side

Not all raccoons are nocturnal, he probably got tired of not being able to find that bird seed after dark! Haha. The operate at low tide near the beach, we see them at noon in SC and FLA if the tide is right. Those jokers will steal ANYTHING