TnRiver46

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

I’m sure we have crossed paths, I’ve got a camo center console but it looks a lot like a bunch of other boats. I tried to launch at island home airport after work Friday since the other ramp is under construction. I quickly remembered why I don’t use that ramp at winter pool. I live just across the river from downtown so I’m having a hard time splashing a boat near home right now. Holston river park is decent but they will lock you in there if you don’t make it back before dark

Another kid got an 80 lb in Lenoir City

You are correct sir. It was loaded with eggs, now it's vacuum sealed and frozen! Everything was hitting a rattle trap on the fall, even the drum

That's what it's looking like. I use the ramp under that bridge most everyday and it will only hold 20 trailers. It's under construction now though so we will see

I don't walk out of the door without a pocket knife

42,000 cfs from the dam and a good bit falling from the sky at 39 degrees. We call that "Tennessee snow "

Holy cow. That's a fat one.

What a day. Brutal wind (for this part of the world) and air temps in the high 20s to start. The water temp was around 48. We had one dink smallmouth in the boat for 3 fisherman from about 9 am til 4pm. Then things got interesting for the better!!! My buddy got a nice largemouth down deep with a kietech. Then we hit a flurry of nice smallmouth from about 17” up to 21”. Rattle trap silver buddy and kietech were the baits of choice, one time I got hit insanely hard while my rattle trap was sinking, I had a ton of slack and was watching the line and it took off like a rocket. I think that may have been the 21” fish that we boated, it was all a quick blur after a day of freezing and no action

Awesome!

It doesn’t seem to slow your catch rates down!

I bought one and broke it if that helps you any haha

We have the opposite problem around here. Way too many fishermen........

The only beds I ever see are in ponds or very shallow rivers that you have to wade

I just got into these baits and bluebasser86 makes a good one! Starts shaking as soon as you engage the reel

This is hilarious. they do lack that compound in Cali ......

I have access to hogs of all ages if anyone wants some fat back!!!

Nobody ever moves to Ohio to retire........

From what I have fished in Florida, the only thing you want to use with treble hooks is a rattle trap or topwater . I don’t see how in the world you could use a crank bait there unless it was a Mann’s baby 1 minus

I can tell from the picture that it’s big enough to eat most of the largemouth I catch

Just don't put it on concrete

It's nothing like that in my neck of the woods, although the classic competitors may prove me wrong next month. When the smallmouth nest up on the rivers near me, you might as well fish for something else like white bass and skipjack . They usually spawn in mid April and all of my shallow water buddies success goes from plentiful to zero once they lock onto beds. This is in shallow shoals on big rivers, where prop boats can't go. I've never even seen a spawning bass in our reseevoirs, then again I haven't really hunted them

I just never sight fish for them. 30 minutes of aggravation to catch one seems silly. I like the thought of catching a 15 lb limit in 30 minutes a lot better

Open water smallmouth are my favorite!

Gears are gears and they make the best ones