TnRiver46

I’m sure you are familiar with what happens when you assume things......

Wish I could help you! Last time I took apart a TM head I broke it. I always hire electrical work done

Manatees, snakes eating fish, alligator/egret noise making ccompetitions, pigs swimming across, deer swimming across, two separate occasions a squirrel swam across, a red fox swimming across, raccoons snatching my plastic worms and live Shad out of the water, all kinds of ridiculousness. I constantly see bald eagles near my house and also saw two on my camping trip this morning. In Jackson hole Wyoming I saw a brown bear trying to remove a dead elk from the lake.

My man gon knock you out!!! ive cut my own hair since high school, just like mowing the yard. I’m not winning any fashion contests, I guess that’s about the time I just quit caring about what other people think

It’s easy with boats too, one bottle says engine oil and the other says gear lube. Right on the label!!! What will they think of next???

Crazy. I like my water 47-49! Haha

80 degree water in Michigan? There are a lot of years the Tennessee river in Knoxville never reaches 80

I have captured the elusive yellow tail snapper. Talk about a weird way to fish! Throw handfuls of sand and oats into the water, free spool the bait into the sand cloud, and reel in your fish when you get bit without setting the hook

The thing that gets me is when people try to tell everyone that bass are nasty to eat when they have never eaten them. Typically in my area it’s tournament anglers or strictly bass only anglers that treat them like Hindu cows and can’t stand the thought of guys like me killing them. That’s why this worldwide forum is so awesome, before I found bass resource I was beginning to think I was the only person in the world that ate bass. I’ve caught some major flack and been just about blacklisted on local forums. I’ve also had people at boat ramps literally tell me not to eat bass. I mean what in the world is that all about????

Awesome, thank you

Cool! Thanks for the info, never heard of it but I will be watching!

They like to eat jerkbaits in summer too!!

@Jermination has one of these, he installed himself and calibrated the spot lock, maybe he can help

There’s another popular opinion around here that white bass taste like Shad. People tell me that almost every single time until they eat it, then they say it’s delicious

I need one of these doodads and maybe half a dozen worm gears. Ambassador 4600c3’s. I’ve ordered from mike’s reel repair in the past, good service, but would rather get them from a contributor to these forums like maybe @Delaware Valley Tackle. Got a lot of hitches in my giddyups

In exchange for........?

That’s because they stock them every single year. The First generation hybrid fl/northern make up 99% of the trophy bass (genetic tests) and when you stock every year there is always a first generation hybrid. The Florida bass Genes would be gone from the population (bed out by natives) if they didn’t continue the stocking every year

I do love mackerel!!

Have you cut open any to find out for sure?

We have walleye, I eat them every time a keeper hits the deck. They are better than largemouth but barely. Really taste extremely similar, walleye meat just looks a little better. Actually now that think about it, I let a keeper walleye go once and made the mistake of telling the little lady about it. Woops! I thought she was going to fillet me

WEre down here til Saturday, come on! Down river from selma a little ways

So I’m camping down south, water temp is 80. We eat what we catch, and almost every bass we have caught has been full of eggs and had a bloody tail. In 80 degree water, spots and largemouth. 3 of these “myths” that you hear all the time have been sticking out in my head. 1) 80 degree water in late may, fish are deep and post spawn. I’m sure there are some post spawn fish but it’s almost June and I’m only 100 miles from the Gulf of Mexico. I’ve talked to several anglers, shallow bite is on. 2) spotted bass taste better than largemouth. We ate a whole bunch of each today, both excellent white meat that you couldn’t tel apart. If you think largemouth from warm grassy water is not tasty, you should try again. It’s Pure white flaky and delicious. If you can make fish fillets that look this good taste bad, well....... here’s your sign 3) when people catch bass, they say if it’s a male or female, and then release it. You literally have no idea unless you cut it open. Almost all the smaller fish we cleaned have been females with eggs. P.S. - sorry to the folks that can’t stand the thought of eating a bass, I’m only human after all.

^winning answer

I also got in a frog bite this eve , not as big as @jbsoonerfan fish but fun on @scaleface new favorite the ribbit frog. I had my buddy’s 8 year old with me (big camping group) and he had 3 blow up his frog and one broke him off. He says “can you believe he broke 8 lb line?” Hahahah. I showed him my 65 lb braid and he said that’s rope. It sure is fun fishing veg that we don’t have back home

That sounds awesome @RoLo! I wish I was around when fur was valuable. I still skin some just to keep the tradition alive but it’s a negative endeavor as far as cash