TnRiver46

In case some of y'all don't make it to the "everything else" forum very often, @Oregon Native and his buddy had a day that included an 11!

@Oregon Native just sent me the pics, WOW

Nice ones!

If the tail of your fat Albert is ripped off by a bunch of angry smallies, you now have a poor man’s Ned rig. You didn’t hear it from me....... As far as curly tail grubs, there’s a whole bunch of great brands. Mister twister has been doing heavy lifting for me lately on massive schools of angry white bass in heavy current. Powerbait makes great ones, rage tail makes great ones in the crappie size, zoom makes awesome ones of all sizes. Kalins have always been a favorite but after many years of fishing shallow shoals for smallmouth with all kinds of grubs, I think my buddy is onto something with a 5 inch big bite baits watermelon curly tail. It’s almost like the big grub just makes them angrier, he has put a whooping on me when I was reeling 3” grubs

The Knoxville visitor center used to host the blue plate special, a live show everyday at noon put on by the local bluegrass station. I want to say the host it elsewhere now, maybe barleys pizzeria

I was thinking about scaleface‘s post as I fished again yesterday with a spinnerbait in flooded bushes...... at least I got some white bass this time........ one day I will figure it out....... one day........

You can get back at the catfish for sliming you with some yellow cornmeal and hot Wesson oil

Great day, thanks for the post. Hope all goes well at the doc and dentist

Yes! That is indeed my favorite song of theirs. That’s also at the blue plate special right near my house!

Looks like a 5 + lb to me

I’ve been throwing a spinner bait relentlessly to no avail

Congrats!!!

Which is where my business explodes! Most people throw away food, then feed birds and pets outside. It leads to a variety of animal problems. You’d never believe what all I can catch around a compost pile

My waters are typically fast and stained and I can learn a lot more watching the graph. About 1.5 weeks before Easter it was starting to clear off, then more rain out of buckets. Right now it’s moving about 4-5 mph and you can’t see through it. When sight fishing can get fun for me is during a late summer drought when the rivers are calm and clear. I don’t recall ever sight fishing a bass off a bed in the spring

Wear sunglasses 100% of the time. It comes out of skin a lot easier than an eyeball

Too loud

TRD is not cheap by my standards, in fact I would imagine it’s the most expensive worm I’ve ever seen for its size I caught 30 white bass on the same curly tail grub last night, all big and aggressive. That’s why I was asking about them, my smallmouth waters are typically jagged rocks cliffs with crazy current and im usually going to break off before a soft bait ever wears out when targeting brown bass. I fish tubes a whole bunch similar to what ned describes in the video above but they are some hanging up sons of guns. I’m always stocked with 2-3 bags of strike king bitsy tubes when fishing smallmouth

For durability or buoyancy? I have lots of hand poured very soft baits that float like a cork

Paddling upstream against 30,000 cfs a few miles is my workout.

Hell, I eat the things. Getting slime on my face is a sign of success I would way rather have fish stank on my hands than ketchup It’s almost magic.

Caught a white bass before I launched in an eddy that is normally dry land. The river had to be flowing over 30,000 cfs, big logs were floating by fast. I broke a rod On the fish but it was a $20 rod from at least 3-4 years ago and I was trying to drag it onto land .