TnRiver46

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 .

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