TnRiver46

I decided I would try to prove to myself the definition of insanity for the 500th time by trying to catch a black bass with a spinnerbait. It still rings true! It never ceases to amaze me how I can throw one for hours, days, weeks and not catch a bass. And the very SECOND that I pick up a plastic worm I start catching. I guess that means, by definition, I am insane. Anywho, back to the fishing. I started way down the river from where I typically go and tried the spinnerbait on a shallow flat loaded with logs that dropped off steep under the boat. Everytime I would let the spinnerbait flutter down the drop a white bass would railroad it. It was more of the big 2 lb “blue tail” males and they were hitting and fighting incredibly hard. At one point I decided to fire the bait down current, parallel to the drop and something hits hard and starts head shaking, big wide shakes. And I can see it way down there, looks olive/brown and slightly over 2 feet long. It takes off into the fast swirling deep current and takes lots of line off a baitcaster. I’m thinking I have a 6-7 lb smallmouth and I start nervously freaking out trying to decide when to reach down and ready the net. Well my olive brown fish slightly over 2 feet was a channel catfish, and a really fast one at that! Of course I fished a plastic worm and caught 3 black bass and missed more. There were some crazy cloud formations on the way in

I don’t but I bet I should. I got a 20” smallmouth on the first cast right out of the package with one and it bent 3 of the 6 hooks

Prayers sent

Rapala makes another lipless with a rounder shape that I’ve caught lots of big smallmouth and nice walleye with. I can’t remember what is called........ edit: ripping rap is what I was thinking of, it’s my favorite lipless . The ones side by side in the pic. I’ve never done much damage with the more elongated rapala lipless

Corona boredom: experimenting with different lures. Since I’m not fishing with my buddies and since there’s 500 billion white bass right near my house, I figured I would try some stuff. I am beyond useless with a spinnerbait and the wind was whitecapping with sun so I thought it would be a great time to attempt catching a black bass with it. Yet another fail but white bass were railroading it. So then I caught them vertical jigging a chartreuse grub, some of these were big 2 lb males fighting crazy hard. Then I caught some with a jerkbait, then some jigging a new spoon I found at academy a long time ago and forgot I had. I also got a graphite splinter from a rod, that was a first. Hard to get those out! My golfing buddy always warned me of those, he said the flagstick could get you

I would look for...... water!

I wish I could do that, it grows all over my yard and I can’t just let it get bigger and bigger. We have a symbiosis going on the last decade or so. I always have it but it has yet to kill me . When I was younger it almost got me a time or two

My cousin burned a bunch of vines and he ended up in the ER also from breathing the smoke

Me thinks the lucky winner was a snapping turtle . I've pulled in my stringer many times and had only heads. Humans are the only creatures that feel sorry about it, animals just eat whatever they can

I just run into a big patch of it with the weed eater throttle WFO and let out a primal war cry!!! My legs itch.......

Good to hear! Get well soon

@Dirtyeggroll, both! A pre spawn glutton. Nice catch

1. Small tube 2. small tube 3. Finesse worm