TnRiver46

And a bunch of new PBs

That’s a TOUGH water temp to catch them for me. I like it to be 47-55 degrees or 70+. Spawning fish are no fun for me to fish for. They aren’t quite so hungry

I’d be willing to share some tackle (if you don’t mind using junky stuff) and an open seat or three of any of y’all traveling in want to fish. I think there are some off limits areas we could fish, especially in kayaks and canoes or maybe even wading shoals if it warms up. There should be billions of white bass to catch, my boat can’t keep up with the competitors! I’m betting most of them head downriver at blast off

'73 Johnson is beyond reliable! And you can fix it with vice grips instead of a laptop

Me and my girlfriend celebrated our 6th Valentine's day by playing trivia at the local watering hole down the street... Not too exciting or expensive haha. Exchanged cards and candy, the usual . Here was our first date..... Fishing in the snow for drum. She skunked me 4-0, I even resorted to casting across her line

Go Bengals and go Titans! (Bengals were my first love before the Titans existed)

Oh man. Had to wait about 15 minutes on that scenario this summer. I almost got out of the truck and asked them if they wanted me to launch it instead. I was in no hurry though so I just observed. It was also a 2 wide launch and they were parked in the middle

Good to hear !! I've only had one and now @Battles2222 has it ..... Hahaha

I think it costs $150,000 for a hotel room and a chicken parmesan in Nashville

Congrats! I love watts bar. I got a big walleye there Sunday

Nice one!!

Hahaha! The one I lost was a storm twitch stick

When they are strung literally all the way across the TN river just before dark and I’m hugging the bank at idle speed trying to avoid them and one is amongst all the bushes, I have to almost hit them. It happens every Wednesday spring summer and fall. My boat goes 25 mph max, I think you’ll be alright. I’m not the guy that’s going to run you over , see picture of orange boat in trees above

So many rules.......and rounds....... and talk of rules and rounds........

I loooove fishing through mascot . We used to drop canoes in at Clift Rd and float to Asheville highway before there was a ramp at the bridge. Tough drag up that hill! I used to launch my shallow boat there but broke a trailer wheel.

Be ready for crowds. Right now the shallower the better and rattle trap seems to be king. This could all change by April, right now there 100,000 cfs flowing through it and it's muddy. Again, crowds. Be prepared for thst, I have never seen anything like it. There's a lot of folks that live on or near that lake that won't even fish it

Sounds like a largemouth! They have red eyes sometimes . There's also a rock bass (ambloplites rupestris) that people call red-eye but gets nowhere near 4 lbs. Then there is the true redeye bass (micropterus coosae) that only exits in and around the coosa river watershed, but it also wouldn't be 4 lbs and lives nowhere near Ohio

I have seen that lake, some competitors might get lost!

Always remember: you are armed at the very least with a paddle!

I too prefer my canoe to my kayak. Unless it's super windy

Well buying stuff is never better than fishing but maybe the tournament and weigh in will be worth the drive!

Yeah man! I can hopefully answer any questions you might have. Most of the guys/girls I graduated UT with work for the state or the fed. Lots of game wardens, a handful that deal with nuisance animals for Uncle Sam (airports, dams, etc), one that deals with fire management at a refuge in FLA, one who is still a top notch carpenter (he did this all through school to pay tuition), one that works for TVA, one that works for UPS, and 6-8 out of the 25 that I graduated with I don’t really know what they are up to (no Facebook haha). Most of the jobs in wildlife/fisheries don’t pay well but they won’t let you starve either. Several of The guys, law enforcement, can work private security as well. A side job isn’t 100% necessary but most of us seem to have one

Tube, grub, pop r, worm, spook, rattle trap, buzzbait, swim jig, fluke, senko, frog........ those boogers eat anything!

Congrats!

I’ve never got a striper from a kayak but my cousin has and it was 42 lbs!!!! Looked like a farm pig . I also have another buddy that catches them from a gheenoe. That has to be awesome. Like water skiing without gasoline. The biggest striper I have caught was in kayak type water in shoals. I hooked it in a 14 foot v bottom and went for a ride!