TnRiver46

Bass love cut bait and catfish love jigging spoons. Just another way for fish to disprove myths

Cool deal, I will be getting married very close to that lake in September 2021

Thanks, we sat there and ate some sandwiches. Cades cove in the great smoky mountains national park. You can see the new spring leaves crawling up the mountain

Just trying to catch one is usually a tough enough game for me

Wow haha glad you made it out alive

Beer and a shot? I shall require blanket and pillow as well

Spots can certainly live in fast water but so can largemouth. I catch spots on all the same tackle as LM and SM, in the rivers I fish there are portions you can go year after year and catch almost all spotted bass. It seems when they get a population going in a small area, they become firmly entrenched. In creeks like you described, I love fishing a 1/16 oz Texas rig 4 inch zoom lizard

@Swbass15, congrats!

It compares just slightly above it! Haha. I had a wiseacre tiny bomb from Memphis today, mmmm

saw 9 black bears in the national park Thursday night, here’s one

Just this morning in 3 hours got white bass yellow bass skipjack herring drum and blue catfish

fun 3 hours in the canoe this morning

It’s a lot easier to keep track of for the rest of us. Scaleface needs a scientific calculator to keep up with the big numbers. I don’t catch 153 largemouth in a year.

Got this one last night jigging a tiny spoon. No takers on cut bait

I’m just fishing for fun with cheap gear and lures, a sensitive rod With braid to leader I shall never have! Haha. If I have to get stuck to catch fish, I can just not catch fish quite happily and soak up some vitamin D. There’s usually some suspended fish somewhere that I can experiment with. To each his own, I lose enough lures in lay downs I can’t see and didn’t even mean to fish

Yes It’s amazing if you try from all angles with trolling motor or paddle, most stuff will come free. I freed a spoon several times today.......... then I lost it...... sadness........ but it caught several fish

Today we got flathead catfish, white bass , yellow bass, smallmouth bass , and some kind of sunfish. Not really targeting anything particular except monsters with cut bait (no bites on cut bait)

I would remove it but not out of concern for pond health

Hard to say, usually several. East TN is a hotbed for biodiversity

Just a comparison I thought of relating to breaking off. If I break off a few bass lures in a row, I'm definitely retiring for the day!! So far it's what has kept me off the ned bandwagon, too sticky around here no matter how you retrieve it

As I stated, I know it’s the best way to catch them. I’ve also caught a 20 lb ball of lead sinkers and line in the boils. To each his own, I don’t like breaking off

Another vote for the worm

I can’t stand breaking off hooks. Drives me batty. You are not alone! The best way to catch striper around here is to chuck big lead into the boils below dams but you break off tons of rigs. I don’t even fish this way, even though I know it’s best for catching. I’d rather catch one here and there on topwater than to break off all the time. I get worked up just thinking about all my lead and hooks stuck underwater somewhere

Congrats on the W!