TnRiver46

We're going to need to operate immediately

Looks like fish above the thermocline to me

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You are going to need a for sale sign out front. Pronto. My girlfriend wanted me to move into a farm house she used to rent, I told her she’s was crazy because it was about 12-13 miles from the nearest boat ramp. Might as well have been in a desert with no water!!!!!

I have a friend who is a big time pharmacist and started a company with the purpose Of getting the super expensive hard to get drugs in the hands of the people that needed them for a reasonable amount of money. They knew it would only have a 5-6 year run before it got shut down. He made it all the way to one of the top guys (In that city on the Potomac) and had a meeting scheduled that was of course cancelled last minute. Monster profits will always win out when you get to that level. I’m very thankful everyday that I don’t have to walk into a doctor/hospital or take any medicine. 34 years so far so good, that’s very fortunate compared to a lot of other folks.

The top two pics were both 20.5” 3.75 lb smallmouth . We think they might have been the same one

The holston and French broad and nolichucky are all fun shallow rivers to fish . The nolichucky is free flowing so it can be dangerous at times. Most of the boat ramps below Douglas dam are pretty rough, but they are doable with 4x4. The holston has a good ramp under the highway 11 (Asheville highway) bridge. It also fishes well up your way towards Kingsport . Check tva.gov for generation schedules and usgs for free flowing rivers

Yes and I think she got me beat on biggest smallmouth. 22.5”

Another dinosaur! 45”

Beast!!

Alabama smallmouth love the squarebill in 2 feet of water! Haha

Rage tail menace!!

I was thinking the same thing reading all this . There’s a reason you see does everyday all the time and rarely see mr. big out walking around in the daylight. It’s because most people don’t bother with a small doe and they know what/where is safe. Wildlife basically just respond to the pressure that is put on them. They may not know it in their little brains but their survival strategies are very “smart” in my opinion. And older animals are smarter than younger ones

I had a fun experience this evening, we ran into a school of smallmouth under a floating dock in extreme current. Just to give an idea of the current, I have a friend who grew up in this neighborhood and she says her parents used to tie an inner tube to their dock and the kids would sit in it and pretend they were getting towed by a boat. There’s also a lot of wooden docks that are piles of splinters now , a couple pretty much brand new. The black and blue rage tail menace accounted for all 6 fish, seemed a heavy bullet weight was the key. I saw the entire school of fish (or the entire amount of fish we caught) when I reeled in the first one, they were mobbing it trying to steal the lure. We Kept motoring back up to make another drift if you could get the menace under the dock you could get bit . It wasn’t easy though, you had to throw about 40 feet upriver of the school to get in the target zone. Not bad for launching at 6 pm and wasting 30+ minutes on a dead spot near the ramp, then making a long run

Wow congrats! Nice hat

Never tried them but I would guess yes!

Some might say the yearly learning of how to survive is "smart"

Cool deal. Where ya headed?

Thanks for the heads up, I will try to check that out somehow

I saw a guy in Alaska hook a red salmon that jumped out of the water and up in the woods. While hooked!

Rattle trap time

1/4 of the way between Memphis and Johnson city...... there are vacation homes all over all the lakes in east TN, chickamauga has the biggest bass

A lot of fly fishermen I know target Smallies. They seem to do pretty well especially when it gets really hot outside, almost like a finesse topwater bite I’ve only caught one salmon but I’ve heard they fight like crazy

I don’t know man, you’re the one that called out my state’s public education haha. All @813basstard was saying was 25% is the same percentage in each case and I echoed that

Still one fourth of the whole in each case. 1/4 of 1 million is 250,000. Still 1/4 (quarter). That’s why they call it a quarter million dollars