TnRiver46

I was just texted this picture from home, looks like mango has been digging holes or wrestling Again and has been banished to the porch. She’s our wide open throttle dog. When I left the house this morning her feet were white.....

Technical difficulty, my bad

Great read @Ivey. Sounds like stretch was from a good bloodline, had it in his DNA. Most of the best hunting dogs come from England, the rest come from Tennessee! Haha

The top two competitors at the moment, wheeler and Neal, both live near chickamauga ( I think )

When it warms up I will sometimes. grub, craw, or chunk

Good gracious! That’s a toad. Welcome to the site, I fish some of your waters but never Tims. I’m upstream in Knoxville but I fish Alabama quite a bit. Did you nab that 7.3 in the winter? I camped below Wilson in March one year with monster smallmouth aspirations and the waves kicked my butt

From what I understand their boat wouldn’t start so they just fished around above the dam on the TM and got pulled over somehow. I fish below the spillways all the time but I’ve never fished above one. Back in the day everyone tied their boats to the top side of chilhowee dam and fished for trout all night. There are a bunch of buoys around it now that a different company out of Canada bought all those lakes. Pickwick is just such a monstrous amount of fast water, maybe they have tried to put something there before that got swept away

Bass fishing Florida? Take a bunch of soft plastics and rig them weedless. Trick worms senkos flukes toads and creature baits. I haven’t fished down there extensively but those things always seem to work. I don’t know if there are snakeheads in Orlando but if there are they will eat frogs from what I understand. A few other toothy critters will bite in the Kissimmee chain, pickerel and bowfin

Yeah I’ve done the half hour casting on lunch break plenty of times, it just feels dirty . Caught some fish though!

I will use a bobber if I’m tired of catching fish and I want some down time......... that’s just me though, plenty of people around my region win bass tournaments all winter long with float n fly

I used to have a couple of those lures!!! I might try to hunt them down, I think one of them may have swolen and broken. One is bright yellow or chartreuse on the back and the other is blue

Both! And in between

Can’t help with ice but black ones are always good. Slow steady retrieve without jigging is underrated but if the water is super cold I would leave it laying on the bottom and bump it along

My boss knows I get my work done but he still likes to chit chat until at least 4 haha

@Glenn, hopefully we will see some of those on the Tennessee River in the future. I’m sure TVA has some BS reason for not having them but that looks like something they could have at least grabbed. I haven’t spent a whole lot of time at Pickwick dam, the only thing I can imagine is maybe there is something in place that was getting pulled under by the current or waves

There’s a few with buoys on a rope above and below them in the mountains but not TVA dams

You would think they would make it physically impossible for that to happen but now that’s two years in a row

It should be fine on both fronts

My boss would drive across a bridge and see me fishing I'm sure

We have 3 and fiance wants another.... We have a 900 sq ft house...if it wasn't for the fenced in yard I would basically live in an indoor kennel haha. Our only male dog , bo, follows me anywhere

Wow

It looks like they are biting this morning

1/8 oz round ball head and 2.75 inch tube

Take your shoes off and walk around in it! I’ve seen the ocean several times and the feeling you get when you first see it never gets old. Safe travels