TnRiver46

Well the spray only works if it hits the wasp, I would try to spray the nest directly right before dark. It won’t hurt a battery, those things are full of acid. The only thing I could imagine it hurting on the engine is the finish on the cowl

Maybe use the swatter near the electronics haha.

Hot shot with 25 foot jet spray. I’m allergic to bees and wasps aren’t that scary to me, usually only 10-12 to a nest. Yellow jackets and hornets have way more number and just as bad of a sting (if not worse with hornets). I’ll do battle with wasps with only the hat on my head. If I see a swarm of yellow jackets, usain bolt couldn’t catch me

Thanks! I shall try that

Bait monkey got me twice in 4 days! But a week long camping/fishing trip calls for it anyhow. I’m starting to feel like @JediAmoeba on this thread....... got all this at academy sports for $60, found one of my wheelhouse $12.99 7’ medium heavy fiberglass rods (should be good for chatterbait and buzzbait) I’ve never pegged a bait, thought I might try but couldn’t find bobber stops. Think a split shot will do it?

Nah, I just need to know about every fish captured all across North America. It’s a disease and I can’t cure it

I care man....... I care....

Sand county almanac by Aldo Leopold is the greatest book you could read on the subject of wise use and conservation vs preservation

You rascal....... they run smallmouth jet boat tournaments even up in the rapids down here! Haha

Fish beware!!

Heck they want $40 for those things now. Same price as the far more sensitive Berkeley lightning rod. I only need heavy tackle once a year for my Deep South vacation.

Had to bite the bullet and get some $20 rods at wal mart and some supplies for swamp fishing next week. Got it all for under $90. Like @N Florida Mike said, the place was picked clean! I need to find some heavy sinkers before Sunday , although I might be able to get them down in the swamp

I wish we could keep small ones, 14” minimum for largemouth and 18” for smallmouth . There are a few smaller rivers with a slot on smallmouth because they are loaded with little fish, but all lakes are 14”/18”

Black and blue jig with flappy trailer or chatterbait

^haha! Yes throw a frog!!! Also A chatterbait will come through it fairly well, and a swim jig very well. Weightless flukes and stickworms for finicky fish

It also depends on how hungry you are! My grandpa wouldn’t be able to wrap his mind around people buying a $100 fishing pole, catching a fish, and then letting it swim away. If I’m hungry and have a limit of keepers, I’m excited to eat. I would hope that nobody in their right mind would get between an excited hungry man and his food

If I’m stuck on the bank fishing big water smallies, I post up on a point

I don’t think pike or pickerel exist in TN, but maybe pickerel in a Mississippi River backwater in west Tennessee? I’ve also never heard of the ghost river but if there’s bass in a river, your lure choices should work very well

+1 on what @RoLo said, they don’t all spawn simultaneously. If some are spawning, just as many if not more are NOT spawning

Funny you would say that, there’s a launch that I use that always has a massive pile of filleted fish on it. We put in there one day and my buddy says “hey wait a second” and starts walking into the water toward the pile of fish carcasses. I said whoa man, it’s always there, don’t walk in that mess. Next thing I know he’s holding a up a filleted flounder with a stick! I pondered forever on how that might have gotten there. Years later, I’m standing in the same spot looking into another fresh fish pile and there’s a bank fishermen there that says “nasty, ain’t it? That guy that runs the seafood market dumps his fish carcasses here.” Mystery solved

The sunset hour near a pond is the mosquito witching hour!

Wal mart does NOT have a better selection of fish. Blasphemy! Haha! And definitely not captured on the same day you buy it

They taste great but it is frowned upon by most bass anglers to eat them. Bass resource is the only forum I’ve ever been on where people can actually admit they eat bass without getting attacked haha

What the world is that white thing and what crankbait caught the PB? The tail dancer?

South Holston and watauga can also be very good at times