TnRiver46

Yet smallest in size. Oh the irony........

My boat at idle will certainly not pass a kayaker paddling. I know this very well because I join a big float group on Sundays in summer with my motor boat if i don't have time to run shuttle. When all my buddies launch and start paddling, I can't keep up unless I give it some gas. I have a 50 horse that idles about 1.7-1.9 mph on calm water. The scenario @Log Catcher presented happens literally every time I try to pass one. I just have to laugh at the fact i can't idle faster than a canoe or kayak and hammer down . Where as when I'm the guy in the canoe or kayak, I pull over out of the way and wave hello. Once again, a little logic goes a long way. there a law that says pedestrians have the right of way but I don't walk in front of dump trucks

Update: nuisance wildlife control not so fun today. I stink.........bad.......

There's a lot of days on chickamauga guntersville wheeler Wilson Pickwick and Kentucky lake where it's not safe to drive my 18 ft center console. The moral of the story is use good judgement. Don't fish where you might die . I've had a friend/coworker drown while kayaking and I have lots of buddies that work for the state and they don't enjoy having to tell your mother what happened. That is after they spent a week or more trying to find your carcass

I do! Not flies but they would be without the jig head . I them on a 6 weight once, got the pump knot to prove it

An encounter with the sheriff is a very good ending compared to what happens about 20 times a year on my local water.

Sounds like we need to organize a BR campfire Riverside catfish meet up/fish fry.

Haha gotcha. I need to keep up with the latest lingo

I have boats and kayaks. I have accidentally almost hit a kayaker a time or twelve while driving a boat. I have never even come close to getting hit or in an altercation when I was in my kayak. Some folks just don't understand how to fish and where to drive which boats. If someone in a bass boat tells a kayaker they don't belong on an offshore ledge on the TN river, the bass boater isn't being mean . He is trying to save the kayakers life. We have double decker party yachts, paddle wheel dinner cruises, 20 something year olds running wake boats into the tops of living trees (that happened last year, I think a girl died) barges carrying massive loads and bass boats capable of 90 mph. If theres anyone's opinion that is worth it's weight in this thread, I'm siding with the retired coast guard man who fishes from a canoe as well as a 55 mph boat . I have the right to ride a bicycle on the interstate but that doesnt mean I should

I don’t catch any super monsters like y’all but I have caught some big ones and they sometimes surprise me with how shallow they get on a mud flat, especially when it’s hot. We usually set jugs where a flat drops off and they always get wrecked at the same time right at dark. Which leads us to believe they head to the flats at sundown (in summer)

Preach it brother . June bug is also my favorite color

I realized that after I watched some of your videos! Cool stuff

Welcome! Which part of TN?

Don’t be afraid to fish shallow for big cats either!

Is that good??

All the pics I posted of fish this weekend were caught jigging a ripping rap in chrome color. All the red eye shads I have ever bought exploded in my tackle box

From what I understand, the brush hog history is irrelevant compared to the history of the baby brush hog........

Gotcha. A friend of mine knows the guys that make them, he gave me a box of them once. I’ll send you a couple pics and see if you might want any of them. I thought I recalled seeing a few thumpers

Well I have been fishing non stop since I was about 2. To say fishing is my life’s passion would be an understatement. I always made good grades in school but Hated every minute of it (because I wasn’t fishing). When it came time to graduate high school, I didn’t want to go to college. My mother said well too bad son, you are going anyway haha. Then she said it’s easier to get a scholarship if you pick a major. Looking at a list of majors, one had the word fish in it! Wildlife and fisheries management. So I naturally picked that one and got a full ride to the university of Tennessee—- GO VOLS!!! Now I work in nuisance wildlife management through the week and part time as a fly fishing guide for trout at a fancy resort on weekends. The whole nuisance wildlife thing was a total surprise to me as I never did any trapping growing up. But I’ve got a knack for it I suppose, and top notch training. There is also a huge demand for it in my area, we get way more calls than we can keep up with

I have no clue how anyone could ever live in Atlanta. And my first cousin lives there!

Can I have that one back?? I never really look for them but I certainly pick up any that I find. I would love to find a lucky craft or megabass jerkbait, because that will be the only way I ever get to fish with one haha

I like your style

This is hilarious. Who would have thought exiting your $70,000 vessel would give you a tournament advantage? Are bank fishing tournaments weighing in bigger limits now or something? Haha

Have you ever seen Stan Sloan Zorro baits? I thought they made any spinnerbait

I can typically find them on a rock cliff or channel edge any time of year, including spring