TnRiver46

Don’t tell small mouths but spots might be my favorite. Beauties

Much ado over a little worm on a jig head

I dont think the brand of your tube is the important part, if you get it near the fish they will eat it. I catch smallmouth all the time in brushpiles as well as milfoil and even clay banks that look like nothing. Rock is good but not necessary. A drop off or cliff is a good place to look

Gotcha. This time of year, especially in a canoe, I would try creek arms and coves off the main channel. The bass should be spawning, or pretty close to shallows coming in or out. Being in coves should help with wind also. When Canoeing on a lake, wind is typically the X factor

No clue about that lake but smallies love tubes

Just mind the wind and go fishing near the banks. If you get a calm day, maybe try off shore. Man made lake or natural?

@WRB has helped everyone I’ve ever seen on this forum break down a map if you give him a picture

That just sounds silly, Sam

No lure is immune to the swelling

I did that with a big jigging spoon and took a chunk out of the cowling....... doh!.....

Gosh. Too many to choose from. I love them all. Bobby garland makes some good ones. I like the traditional curly tail quite a bit, but I really love a small sassy Shad type bait. Those might be classified as swimbaits instead of grubs but they are awesome

That’s an awesome setup. My buddy that is willing to bang 2oz jig heads with zoom magnum flukes on the rocks always catches more striper than anyone I know. He breaks off a ton of rigs though, which is why I don’t ever try it. I can’t stand getting hung up all the time. Granted this is casting into the boils right below a dam so you have to use super heavy sinkers to get down and when your jig hangs up it’s gone forever.

Copperheads we have plenty of but they aren’t half as mean as their cottonmouth cousin. We’ve got timber rattlers up in the mountains but they are very seclusive

@N Florida Mike, bluuuuuuuuhhhhhhh! East TN has no water moccasins and I couldn’t be happier about it. Any other snake will disappear but not that one!

HHahaha!!

Upper Tennessee river you would be fine. From chickamauga on down river you will be fine as long as the wind isn’t blowing. Main channel of guntersville pickwick and ky lake might as well be the ocean when it’s 15 mph +

@Dirtyeggroll, you are on a roll! Ironic with your screen name and all.....

I think those kind are typically a predecessor to a gust of wind. When a Shad makes a v wave I start scrambling around in the boat looking for a wake bait, preferably a bomber long A. I’m excited just thinking about it.........

Every old timer I ever spoke with on the subject says “if you can see them, they can see you”

I believe pecan is of the same genus as hickory, “carya “ Impossible!!!

@Koz, good looking RHP ya got there! I wouldn’t want to stand in the box against him. Effort into homework?? Good luck with that.......Haha. The best thing about graduating college and joining the workforce? No more homework!

Well the fiancé gave mango a bath last night and decided to let her sleep in the bed with us....... I woke up to a tick on my elbow

I typically either catch them with a huge top water lure or a skipjack herring. The bait can be dead or alive, 1/0 seems like a small hook but maybe that’s a different size in circle hooks. The one in the picture was caught with a 6/0 stainless steel hook, although the hook was completely gone along with the skipjack