TnRiver46

Well are you interested in my wanted ad for a cameraman?? Haha

Plenty enough for brakes and rotors!!!

Good point @A-Jay, I think when @Dwight Hottle buys a jerkbait, the 6 lb smallmouth are already biting at it in the parking lot of bass pro before he gets it to the car

I like their videos, especially LFG. I guess I'm in the minority! Haha. If I knew how to operate a computer I could provide strictly fishing content several times a week without all the silliness. Wanted: person to follow me around with camera, edit all the fish footage, then hand me all the cash......... Nah I couldn't do that! Haha Edit: ok maybe I would take half that cash........ I need brakes and rotors......

I would just do whatever @A-Jay does

4x4 Dodge ram single cab manual transmission manual windows manual locks, terrible gas mileage. Like back when trucks were trucks! It pulls the boat or firewood or mulch or multiple paddle craft. For long range journeys we use my girlfriend's roller skate that gets like 35 mpg.

Our initial plan was thwarted by flood water, so we went a few ridges over to another creek that was not flooded and quite picturesque. We also caught 90 fish between 3 of us, all little smallmouth and rock bass.

Awesome !

Got in a little dock fishing on Sunday. Got a Bluegill with the fly rod that was then circle hooked and parlayed into a smallmouth. Got a couple fish out of my buddy's pond on Monday

I'm bassin on a budget everyday

I think Mike Long just caught another DD on a swim bait .........

The winters typically aren’t bad but they can be every once in a while. The roads around those 3 lakes are treacherous when dry, so you might get snowed in a couple times a year. I don’t know enough about RV campgrounds or campers to help you out much. Seems like there’s a lot of RVs below Douglas dam . Congrats on making it to retirement, I remember you asking about retiring in East TN on another site years back

Freedom!!! Happy 4th!!! I only fished for about 30-45 minutes but I caught 2

I tried to tell y'all Florida strain are several generations too smart .....

Nice work. I keep it minimal also, I've never been a gear head and couldn't afford it even if I was. I use $20-$40 combos, cheap mono, plastic worms, a 4 stroke 50 horsepower, no ad sunscreen, and last but not least, completely unheard of in 2019, COTTON t shirts!!!! Oh the horror! I've still be known to fish longer than anyone and have success. salesmen hate me ........

That’s a beast ! Congrats

Now that’s a good way to look at it!

Hahaha! My buddy (who has only used braid once or twice) was throwing one of my rods with braid the other day in the back of my boat. I kept hearing "what in the $#@& is going on here" coming from the back of the boat. All I could say was "it just does that sometimes"

I feel that my body sweats for a few reasons, one of which to cool me off. I don't want it wicked away

I think I can offer some insight. The answer to @Paul Roberts question is yes. The answer to @Choporoz question is fishing pressure. Where do more people fish than anywhere else? FLA. All year long. I work at a resort as a fly fishing guide where we stock trout in a tiny creek. Big ones. These fish go from dumb as a hammer to genius level in a matter of 2-3 weeks. They become almost impossible to catch very quickly, impressive for a pea sized brain. It's predator avoidance, plain and simple. Sure they still have to eat and can still be caught but fishing pressure makes them very hard to catch. And it happens really fast to sterile stocked rainbows, imagine how smart they could get when passing genes down to the next generation......like FLA bass

I honestly think me and my friends have broken the world record for skipjack herring a few times but have never bothered to turn it in. I think it's just over 4 lbs haha. The striper guys I know would take a 4.5 lb skipjack and put a circle hook and balloon on it in the blink of an eye . I bet in the early 1900s people didn't even know the records for most fish, maybe even a largemouth. It was most likely just more meat for anyone except pioneer sport fishermen

Ah yes! I forgot you were in middle TN. I fished center hill last year in August and got a couple decent bass. One was a smallmouth fishing the bluffs and the other was a largemouth dragging a shakey head deep in the middle of a creek arm. I have never fished old hickory or priest , I’ve heard priest is a big smallmouth factory. I’ve also read a couple different places that the Cumberland is a conveyer belt of trees this year edit: I just reread your post about center hill being over 100 feet deep for 85% of it. I’m sure you already know this but it’s half empty right now too for dam problems!!!!

I tend to lean the other way. I would imagine fishing was pretty good 100 years ago. Relatively low fishing pressure and not nearly as much pollution. Someone may have caught a 26 pound bass and just eaten it back then

My friends that live in Chattanooga are thrilled that guntersville was ahead of chickamauga on the list this time........ for smokescreen purposes........

Sounds like someone might have treated the vegetation with herbicide, although I would think that’s probably frowned upon in Maine. Nice largemouth, there must have been something tasty to him 20 feet down there