TnRiver46

Y'all should fish a winter smallmouth tournament with 65 lb braid and see how well you place

My favorite trick is usually taking someone that mosquitos really like to bite. Unfortunately in some cases they favor me over other people but usually it works like a charm

Bug spray. Lots of it

Yep!

Do you fish Miller's ferry? We use a lot of junebug worms down there

Sounds like 80% of the lakes near me! Haha. When they have a shad buffet to chose from, sometimes something that stands out like a wild color crank or a tube jig will trigger a bite .

I know some people that tracked their habitat range pretty closely when I was in college, let me know when you do that and maybe I can help

i think the new river eventually turns into some class V whitewater! Fishing is easy when the smaller creeks dry out in summer, we caught them non stop. No size though. All you need is some kind of soft plastic and a few hooks and jigheads

It's quite diverse in these parts! I was just a few clicks north of the micropterus coosae habitat range where the pics were taken. I will have to leave all the road trips and red-eye bass to you though! I detest traveling and I'm more a fan of the micropterus dolomieu.... Haha.

That I MUST try a ned rig . My buddies go through bags and bags of them (not because fish tear them up, because they get stuck on bottom) out of the back of my boat and still don't have any more success than regular plastic worms. I did try one once, got it stuck on bottom. If you are supposed to swim the bait off the bottom, then I'll just use a grub or cheaper worm

I would have to fillet that pickerel to retrieve my frog. No shame in my game

If you caught one on the tube, I would keep toobin'!!!

Camden??? My brother works there! Didn't know people fished there haha. If y'all ever need screen printing, look him up! He looks like me and is one of the only printers up there....

I'm sure I took him in there, that's why I made sure to take him out. There's deer and dampness in 100 percent of east TN, even behind Lowe's haha. There ain't enough cutter in the world, I would have to mainline it through an IV. Luckily those boogers itch like crazy when they embed, alerting the host to it's presence

It wasn't far at all from where they live

I was also going to vote for @Bluebasser86

I'm glad you could help him because Ive never seen nor heard of that bottom fish. Pretty cool!!

I made it out to the parking lot with it and sliced it in half . Made the transaction interesting

Shoot. I pulled a tick off my neck yesterday....... in Lowe’s!!

The first time I got hooked deep was on my 13th birthday party with a buzzbait. My mom called a doctor friend from church who was also an avid fisherman (at midnight). Luckily he answered (landline days) and said bring him over. He takes an ice cube out of the freezer and starts rubbing it around the hook and asking me about what we were fishing for. Next thing I know he is holding the hook in his hand, no pliers or anything. He said “it can always come out the same way it went in.” Since then I have been hooked and hooked others a few times and have just pulled it back out everytime, no special tricks required. In most cases, if you can pull it out of a fish, you can pull it out of a person. The exceptions are usually when people are alone and the bait is in their dominant hand. Another exception I have seen was a friend of a friend had a hook buried in the dead center bullseye of his eyeball. I’ll spare you guys the photo of that one.

I have dozens of buddies that like occupying the back of my boat or joining in a floatilla. It sure makes for some good stories/memories!

Sounds good in those way too in depth articles though

They aren't my favorite , haha. They give up as soon as you set the hook then go ape poo as soon as you try to get the hook out

They were jumping like crazy today

I like to fish with my girlfriend and all my other buddies . And sometimes our dogs. But if nobody can go with me, I’m still going