TnRiver46

Hook isn’t bad compared to a boat propeller

If it’s too hot wearing a life jacket in a kayak, don’t try mowing your lawn in July

Loudoun/tellico only goes down about 6 feet in winter. Douglas is about 40 ft drawdown, Cherokee 30, Norris 20. watauga and south Holston are good SMB lakes, with a pair of waders you can do some serious damage on the rivers inbetween. Once summer hits you can just do it in shorts

Samurai delicatessen!!!

Loudoun/tellico is where I fish but I usually do the river on loudoun. I live near downtown and go upstream I learned to fish on tellico and have a house on it, been pretty great fishing last several years there bank fishing is tough round here, I always try to go below a dam for that.

You still talking Douglas ? My buddy fished a tourney there yesterday and came in 3rd with 3 fish, it’s still in recovery mode and will be for some time. Had the worst flood since they built the dam in October. He did have one nice smallie in his bag but yeah ain’t no weeds in the water around here. Douglas has some nice SMB but Cherokee has way way way more

They don’t necessarily have to go anywhere, they can spawn where they live

Nice bird!!!

Yeah he was famous for catching monsters, on the front of bassmaster and all that. Turns out he was snagging them all, keeping them at home, bringing them to tournaments and weighing them in. Hidden fish compartments in rod lockers, pulling the wool over co anglers eyes, etc. He even caught many of them at lakes he was trespassing into after dark https://www.bassmaster.com/news/americas-big-bass-guru-exposed/

@Bazoo, those are standard bluegill, green sunfish with have blue vermiculation between its eye and mouth. I meant to target stripers today and I did some, but I couldn’t help myself and caught a bunch of other stuff 1 Kentucky spotted bass, 3-4 smallies, lots of white bass, 6 nice crappie, a drum, and a channel catfish. Maybe a couple dozen fish with 6 species, a fun variety pack. I saw some white bass actively spawning, pods of 4-6 climbing all over each other in shallow shoals and splashing water everywhere. Water temp 60-63.

Well that is definitely correct, I saw a big wad of them spawning today , splashing around in tight circles in the shoals I also caught more crappie today than I usually do

I don’t make it to Douglas much but lemme know if you ever come west an hour or so Hint: fishing the little pigeon in sevierville is a very good option from now til June, it seems silly but it’s loaded with big smallies

I forgot to include the picture

Same tree in my front yard I’ve posted here many times, trees ahead of the bass every time

I also always go finesse, but it’s 1/16 and 1/8 oz jig heads with soft plastics and 6 lb line on spinning gear. I think a swim jig would snap such tackle on the cast haha. I would go with the lightest one you can and trim the skirt, ad a small profile trailer or use no trailer at all if aiming for finesse swim jig in my mind is broom handle, 50 braid, and violent hooksets for finesse I think worms minners tubes and hair jigs

Swimming a jig is some of the heavier fishing is do, the opposite of finesse

I had a friend of a friend also get hooked directly dead center in the eye ball. I’ve tried to put the pic on here before but Google denies it 😂

Cheater, banned for life most think he was fishing for a fish in a box underwater because he never moved and always flipped a jig to the same spot all day. But part of him being banned was nobody will say why