TnRiver46

Easy answer, spring spawn. It’s funny because that’s what everyone talks about and looks forward too, the toughest fishing of the entire year

You don’t even have to have a license in TN if it’s your pond or your family’s pond

I’ve caught them with everything also. One of the hardest hits I ever got was dragging a Texas rig zoom u tail up and over a limb that was on the surface. As soon as it climbed over and started sinking a flat head rocked it like a defensive end blindsiding a quarterback

Big girl scared of a little crappie???

Hahahah! Nah I’m already close to moving into my retirement lake house. I will just have to live there and still go to work.......

That’s spooky. I’ve seen more than a few chucky looking type baby dolls wedged up in log jams. I always paddle by and say “I didn’t just see that.....”

Theyll send you down to Florida if you keep up that behavior

We had one eat another in a livewell once and I saw a situation similar to the video another time at a golf course pond and both fish were dead

The craziest wads o gear I find are right below dams. I caught about 15-20 striper jig heads from 1/2 oz and up on one cast! All stuck in a ball of line with a bunch of egg sinkers too. The hooks snapped off but I kept the lead for “finders keepers” catfishing purposes

(Leans over the microphone)............... $1 Bob

Bout treeeeeee fiddy!!!

SHove an 1/8 round ball jig head in those bitsy tubes. Best rig going. Bring plenty of them because you will lose a lot

I got to use the improved ramp downtown twice before they started tearing it up again hahah. Now it’s back to the way it was before but at least it’s open Pretty awesome!!! I know I had a blast

The ratio is 1000 bass fishermen to 1 person against it here

You will in July

Congrats!!!

Awesome bass

Ask for forgiveness

Well if either of you can make it to east TN any winter, we can give you some excellent open water fishing for however long you can stay. It won’t be sunny beaches of Florida but it’s a shorter drive and the drag (or in my case backreel) will be working. It’s cold but will feel balmy to you guys

I bought 2 17.5 dredgers at the classic based on your research haha. Will report back if I ever throw them

There are thunderstorms in the forecast about 75% of days in east TN. I can’t begin to describe how inaccurate the weather reports are, nobody believes it until they live here. Unless you want to stay at home all the time, we have to mix it up with the storms from time to time. We don’t have the crazy tornados like they do for the west and south but lots of lightning. If there is lightning we just get the heck out of the boat try to find the best safety, it usually ends up being a barn. There are two trips I take annually that I wouldn’t miss for anything. One is canoe camping weekend float trip down the big south fork of the Cumberland River that me and all my friends have done for over a decade. ZERO of these trips haven’t involved lightning and a storm. Then there is my camping trip in south Alabama that I have been on for 20 years straight and the family I go with has done for over 50 years. Bass pro shops even did a commercial about this trip (including yours truly haha). If there’s anyone in the world that is storm conscious it’s these guys. They grew up poor in the 30s in Alabama with nothing but what they built and grew with 11 kids. One night when they came out of the storm shelter the house was gone. Needless to say they don’t mess around with storms. Regardless we camp every year and fish HARD, no internet or cell service for so called “weather forecasts.” All this to say if I stayed home every time there was a storm forecasted I would be a vampire not a fisherman

Well I was cleaning fish until almost 1 am........ good problem to have

Thanks for the well wishes, it worked!!