TnRiver46

I was born and raised in maryville and i don’t live there because it’s too far from the water haha. When I bought my house, my number 1 criteria was it has to be about 5 miles or less from the water

Well most of my bank fishing is on small chunks of public land on massive bodies of water or on my dock so I usually have to stay still. So I voted for staying put and trying everything. I almost always leave a set line with night crawler too, just to single line sample the ecosystem...... hahaha

I haven’t mastered it quite like @roadwarrior but I have used them weightless, Texas rig , and shakey head. They all work very well, in addition to being a good trailer for jigs and bladed jigs . I haven’t Carolina rigged one yet but I bet it would work

Bass fishing is my favorite thing ever and I love and respect bass . But I still eat them. I love cows and chickens turkey and pigs too........ dang it now I’m hungry

That would be a banner two days for me down there! Haha

That’s worth having to search for big foots (feet(s)?) all winter !!

I’m putting my money on regular ole largemouth.

I see a lot of newts in ponds also. Forget the newt, that is a beautiful plastic worm

I would ditch the braid to keep the hooks from tangling but that’s just me . Mine do way better on mono. I use a big baitcaster with 12 lb usually, if I threw a 3/4 oz silver buddy on a spinning rod........ well it better be a tuna rod..........

If they are suspended or if the bottom is deeper than 50 ft, I like to throw a 1/8 oz jig head with either hair or a gulp minnow on it. If they are on bottom from 15-30 I like a shakey head or small tube. If they are on bottom deeper than 30 I break out the heavy metal. I have also caught them with topwater when they were near bottom in 19 ft......... gin clear water though

We have a pond at my weekend job that has bass year round and trout in winter. The two biggest bass are each about 5 lb, the pond is tiny. We put a 13” rainbow in, wham bam the bass ate it right in front of us. Put a 15” trout in, wham same thing. Put a 19” trout in and they followed it everywhere it went. Measurements of anatomy or not, we all stood there and watched it

Hopefully too busy with the brown bass?

Harsh truth. Luckily my college was free but I indeed stay broke

Had a big floatilla going down river yesterday. Everyone got lots of trout, I got one bass. Only one person dumped a kayak and lost a rod haha. He had Keys/wallet/phone in a pelican case

Shoot you can have those early September yellow jacket mowing sessions.........

White bass made it to the shoals and are flailing around everywhere and spawning. Found a smallmouth amongst them, sunny and well over 70 degree air. SPF was applied liberally

We are extremely lucky to have a ton smallmouth and water temps that rarely go below 45, some years never below 50. A smallmouth will feed himself silly at 47-49 degree water temp

Oh I’ve read and heard it all. And the bats eat ALL the mosquitos too........ insects reproduce waaaaaaay to fast for any mammal to “clean them out.” Yes possum eats ticks and bats eat mosquito and I eat hamburger but there are still tons of possums bats ticks mosquitos humans and hamburgers. Something should have gone extinct by now ....... I will be working in areas absolutely loaded with possums while being bitten by ticks dozens of times this spring summer and fall . Here’s one of my all time favorites I hear from customers: “if you let a black snake go on your property you will never see another mouse!” Mice reproduce constantly and snakes don’t eat often. Also if the snake ate all the mice, then what does eat? All the little creatures live in a healthy balance. A predator requires prey and vice versa

Even in my limited experience down there, Those Florida bass just sit back and have a good hearty laugh at all the bass boats during a cold front

Here’s hoping for ya. Will the maiden voyage have to be old town or is the Lund already pulling the chain tight?

Well we got about a billion possums on every street corner and ticks everywhere

Hahahahah all my friend said “why didn’t you keep it” and I replied that 1.5 minutes in the boat was enough with that thing . I went to plug in the batteries on my boat this morning and the mess he left on the back deck was vile. Vile I tell you

He was pooping and trying to impregnate me so I got him right back in the water haha. No measurement or weight unfortunately

I’ll eat em any ole way but cut up into nuggets and fried is my favorite

My buddy met me at the boat launch after work and we start out about 6:00. The previous day had been slow action trying to find white bass but I was still marking some glued to the bottom so I figured let’s go to the same spot and rile them up today. On the way upstream, I stopped at a spot I had marked white bass before just to check, didn’t even really think about it. Sure enough the graph lights up with gobs of them. We start catching a few, nothing crazy and all of a sudden you can hear what sounds like a 26 lb largemouth blowing up a frog. Gadoosssshhhh gadoooosh!!! Holy crap where is that and where is my topwater?? We see what looks like a white shark eating a seal and slam the boat in gear headed that way. Methinks we have a large striped bass trying to eat a skipjack........... Just as we get about halfway to the frucus a bald eagle swoops in and takes the skipjack and flies away. Hmmmm. We had been seeing that bird already but that was still pretty cool. I’m wanting my buddy to hook up on this thing because I don’t think he has ever caught one but he’s got about 50 ft of line on his baitcaster armed with a spook. I also grab a cheap walking bait and we cast around to no avail. Back to jigging up white bass for about an hour and we hear it again, except about 15 or more consecutive times. And we can see it! Honestly there appeared to be maybe a few stripers but water is flying everywhere. This time I said to heck with stealth mode and slammed the throttle right toward everything. Sure enough a great blue heron is hovering above it all trying to get the skipjack. We try to scare him off and chuck the spooks all around the struggling skipjack while he is being nibbled constantly by the fish. No hits. How it this possible. We tried to catch the skipjack with plugs and bare hands as he swam by the boat several times, still nothing. I remembered I had some big cotton Cordell redfins under the deck in My jerkbait box. I tied on the “ghost of Christmas past” as my friend calls it and the striper blew it up on top a few casts later. I’m not sure how big this fish was but it may be the biggest of my life! Captured with 12 lb mono, regular clinch knot, dirt cheap 7’ rod, and a pflueger reel my buddy gave me! Hahaha. I’d rather be lucky than good any day. I also got a good screenshot of the white bass schools