TnRiver46

Gerald swindle had a video somewhere where he said this rule was silly when BASS first came out with it. His reasoning was every single time he interacts with fans of the sport, they want to talk about skipping a jig on guntersville or fishing a jerkbait on Champlain, just depends on what city they are in. So now he has to just cut them off when they start talking fishing. If you take “talking fishing” out of the sport, that’s why people call it “silly.” Even top pros

http://rheareview.com/crews-search-for-missing-kayaker-in-polk-county/ Not sure what happened yet but they found his boat and life jacket. Wear the PFD until you get to the truck!

I have never fished for them but it seems we sampled some in college and snorkeled with them. I thought almost all the water in eastern Alabama was part of the coosa watershed, minus what flows Into the chattahoochee. Tallapoosa and coosa Rivers form the Alabama river so it’s all fairly interconnected. I think a whole lot of water in northwest Georgia is also part of the coosa watershed. The red eye bass species name is even “coosae.” Every drop of rain that falls in the state of Tennessee either goes into the TN river or Cumberland river (which both empty into the Ohio) or the Mississippi out on the western border. Therefore you could say all of Tennessee is part of the Ohio River watershed or the Mississippi watershed (which people do all the time). There are two exceptions : 1) the man made Tennessee tombigbee barge canal 2) a few streams in southeast Tennessee actually flow into the conasauga river. These are the streams where we found the micropterus coosae and also a bunch of turtles that don’t exist anywhere else in the state. In summary I guess I use the term “watershed” pretty widely, a tiny stream that is way on top of a mountain is still considered part of the Tennessee River watershed to me if that’s where the water ends up. Even if it’s over 100 miles from the actual river that bears the watershed name.

Junebug green pumpkin or black, depending on rainfall amounts. It’s looking like this year I will have to throw a stick bait on a downrigger to ever hit the bottom! I Texas hook them though, exposed hooks don’t have much use where I fish. Unless you just enjoy throwing money into the water, I have one fishing buddy that likes that. He just breaks off immediately when he gets stuck, doesn’t even want me to trolling motor over for a rescue effort. His motives must be driven by the bait monkey

They havent built a wall at the bottom of Georgia......... Yet..........

Yes the main river is nasty. There's plenty of lakes around here that stay clear no matter what, I chose one of those sunday

Wouldn’t mind catching one of those big long toothy things!

Definitely a largemouth. And a good dog

We got a few decent ones in the rain today!!

It seemed like a fish I should have grilled skin side down . Maybe I’ll try that one day

Parking will be what they need! No I have a propeller

I just rolled it in fishy fry and cooked it in a fryer. Flavor was good unless you got some dark meat. I would rank it just about where you think it should be, just below any game fish but well above most suckers. A lot like catfish but flakier/firmer

Striped bass drum and white bass, water temp 48 muddy and flooded. 63,000 cfs

It’s funny you would say that, I had a former neighbor say that her friend wanted some drum so I cleaned 3 yesterday and tried some. Not as bad as I was expecting but I had to trim a lot of dark stuff off it

I don’t know why or how but somehow I never end up there

I only allow my dogs to bark from 8-5 hahah. We keep them inside most other times, besides all the birds and squirrels they bark at go to bed at dark. I’m always a little nervous when I let the dogs out after dark and if I hear the first woof, I call them all back in immediately. Night critters tend to fight back and/or stink

I have houses all around and my neighbors are all awesome. Some do park in the way of me getting my boat out but they appear to be about 16-17 and don’t know better. They always move if needed, their driveway and carport are always eerily wide open haha. Several of my neighbors have been introduced to my escape artist beagle/basset that gets a scent in his nostrils, goes totally ballistic howling, and digs a subway tunnel under my wooden fence. He always ends up in someone’s yard howling like crazy with his nose down in the ground chasing moles. They always bring him back for me!

Holy cow. I’ve caught some sheepshead but not like that one! I’d say my biggest is 2.5-3 lbs . Crazy fighters

Ditto

Well right now the lake is chocolately and raging, I bet I couldn’t catch a cold out there! The tellico side typically stays much clearer , I may try there today but I can hear it raining pretty hard out there as I type this.

Can’t stop won’t stop

That’s all I been trying to say this whole time

Make sure you check the bottom of the yaks from time to time. I guide kayak trips for beginners sometimes and we always load them in the boat on the ramp and give them a shove. Put a lot of holes in high end kayaks that way. One lady paddled about 200 yards and said "am I supposed to be sitting in water?" Luckily she remained calm and we switched kayaks. The holes are easy to fix at least, always dead center in the very back. And never ever let a paddle board touch the concrete, at least the fiberglass ones they first came out with

Gotcha thanks

Won't the pros be fishing??