TnRiver46

Biggest understatement of 2025 right there 😂 😂

Glad you had a good trip! The skin is really thick on hands and arms too…….

If only @Woody B was here to chime in…… actually you could probably just access his old reports. Seems like he caught some of each every trip out in NC I get maybe 1 spot to every 10-12 smallies but always just fishing, never done anything different to try to target them there are a few places where there are always a few ky spots on the rivers, not sure why but they are there no matter what. One is ultra fast water behind a bridge pillar

I boat flipped a fish today, and my buddy did get video of it. I also lay fish down on the boat to measure them all the time. I don’t really think it hurts them much. Fish continuously regenerate their slime coat

@Swamp Girl, that was when I was catching shad near home early this AM. It was up into the mid 30s by the time we got to the lake and was almost pleasant by afternoon

Had some time on the water this weekend, the smallmouth were biting Saturday: Got out in the kayak around 9. I had some nightcrawlers and had also saved some shad I’ve been catching on some random stops at creek mouths near home. It was really windy so I had to get stuck up against rocks or trees to slow down enough to fish. Tossed one of the dead shad up against a deep rock cliff and it got hit hard, swing and miss. Rebait, same thing. This happened 4-5 times and I finally hooked it, a big ole smallie jumps and dives down into the tree I was up against. It finally swims free and tows me out to deep water. It got way down deep up against the cliff and got me wrapped up in something else. I tried to free it for 10 minutes paddling in circles around it in the waves, it was plum stuck. I finally had to break the line. After that I got a couple fish with nightcrawlers, one smallie in the 2 lb range and a spotted bass that I brought home to eat. Sunday: took my motor boat out with a couple buddies. Prior to fishing I went downtown to crackhead creek early this morning and netted about 100 threadfin shad for our excursion. It was 26 degrees my hands froze but they were worth it, smallies loved them. We started fishing around 10:30 and it took a while but Craig caught the first one, nice thick SMB. I then hooked one that got stuck in a tree but it finally came loose, Rich captured the escape on film. I was using 33 lb braid and 12 lb seaguar pounce leader, it held thru the ordeal. I had tied the leader knot yesterday in the kayak and forgot to check it today, still going strong The offshore action slowed so we hit some cliffs, I picked up a couple more went back offshore on the way to the truck and Rich got 2 19” fish within 10 minutes of each other fun times, good scenery, and of course the lucky loon wss swimming around us

Title was funny, nice fish Alex! Love the cypress knees in the background , fishy fishy

Live bait

Thinking of yall 🙏

It’s not fair that you have all those and I don’t

Actually you don’t have to wonder any longer. He was fishing on St. John’s and a guy on a dock started to tell him about a honey hole, he stopped him mid sentence and said “can’t get any info”

Somebody weighed an 11.5 lb! Possibly the biggest to hit the stage in bassmaster history correction: in okeechobee bassmaster history

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