TnRiver46

No one will ever know what causes their eyes to be red no matter what anyone says. It just happens sometimes

Better just send them to me and get it over with

I cast with both hands for baitcasting, been trying to practice left only on my last several trips. Spinning reels I can only reel with my left but I bet with practice I could change that. No need to though, you can switch the reel on spinners

I saw a guy water skiing a few days before Christmas in a Santa hat. We get jet skis year round on Loudon

What an hour!!!

What an evening! I will preface this story by saying barges on the TN river usually move at a snail’s pace....... usually....... So we have been paddling around in the evenings just for the heck of it, but Some of us keep fishing rods ready and cast into some calm spots for white bass. I caught a skipjack herring on the way up the river and cut it into chunks. My buddies have never caught a striped bass and cut bait has been getting a lot of them lately. As we drifted back downriver toward our vehicles, the cut bait rod goes off! I hand it to my buddy and the fight is on! We are in a canoe being towed out into the middle of the river by the fish hooked near the shoreline, yee haw fun times. I just so happen to look back upstream and there’s a massive barge coming right toward us and it’s coming along pretty quick. Uhhhh. I Paddle backwards for all I Had while my buddy is dragging a 16 lb striper on the surface with 12 lb line. Now there’s a pontoon out in front of the barge with no lights on pushing a big wave. Somewhere along the way I bear hugged the fish and flopped it into the boat before we got into shallow water. Made it to the rocks just in time for the barge waves to hit, clangity clang. Somehow we stayed upright and took some pictures! You can see the barge on the right of the top picture. The tug went back by empty as we were taking out in the dark

You my friend are cultured and stylish

I think so , ten years ago I called a jig worm the poor man's Shakey head. Now I call it poor man's ned rig. At any rate, jig worm is cheaper than both. Fish are primitive, salesmen are not

Haha. Does the name of rig change completely just because of a different style hook, weight, or jig head? Once again I've been throwing swimbaits on swinghead for years and never heard of CHEB. Maybe they came up with a new name by using an elaztech swimbait?? Its all about selling product people. If you can't sell a lure in 2020, call it a finesse lure and it's sold

The same difference between a ned rig and jigworm: the name

In my opinion, yes. But I’m in the minority on that one! I like zoom finesse worms or dead ringers on a jig head, or a hand pour bait if I want it to stand up (which i feel is overrated). I do think the hand pours have a much different action that is sometimes the ticket on heavily pressured water. Also Ned himself seems to talk about cutting the zinkerZ in half way more than he ever mentions a TRD

I throw it up against the bank at drag it down steep drops into 20-40 feet. It gets hit instantly up shallow sometimes and way deep other times

That first pic reminded me of a skunk! I’ve actually saved some skunk hair before, wonder how it would do. I think I made a minnow fly or two with the white part, I can’t recall. Great looking creations

@hawgenvy, that a wild wild crazy crazy fish! -Steve Martin

I agree. As soon as I got the loan for the house I went right back to paying for things up front as often as possible

I never had the student loan, maybe that was the credit. They advised me to get a credit card , buy some stuff and pay for it, and I would get a credit score. Prior to that I had always just paid cash for everything. They don’t like that anymore

We sound like a banjo out of tune hahah

Sometimes the Florida accent and the coastal MD accent sound similar to me. Ok I miss meeting people from all over the country, I’ll admit it. d**n you Covid “dat joker right der will hit dat frog and jerk the rod outta ya hand” -my florida fishing pal

@N Florida Mike, that looks delicious, I’ve been eating much of the same. Also you have the same accent as my cousins that live in cocoa beach/rockledge haha

Yep!

They gotta win something.......

That’s what I thought about credit cards at your age and it’s still the best policy in my opinion. However the people that loan money to buy houses won’t loan you any money if you don’t have any debt. It’s really weird but I had to get a credit card and go into debt in order to get a “credit score” and subsequently a loan. It’s all a big ridiculous bunch of silly