TnRiver46

Thank you sir!!!! I had bought some deer belly hair for jigs and forgot about it, your post is the only thing that saved it from the proverbial rabbit hole. You might have just caused me to catch some fish ............

Just draaaaaaaaagggg it as slow as you can. The current and wind and trolling motor and living rubber or big mop will do the rest. They will eat it just like a jerkbait sometimes, sitting completely still and whammy. Other times they bite it without you realizing it, just have to experiment. Clear deep water smallies in cold water—- take a hair jig or jig head with gulp minnow and toss it out. Let out some slack after it splashes down and close the bail. DONT DO ANYTHING ELSE AT ALL until you get a bite , in which case the fun starts. I don’t know if that counts as jig fishing but it’s a hair jig and they eat it on the pendulum swing

It should be, barring a major flood. The only thing that could shut the bite down is spawning but that is usually more of an April/may event. The bags are typically heavier on every other Tennessee river reservoir though, fort loudon/ tellico is the furthest upstream reservoir on the TN river . As it flows downstream toward the Ohio it obviously gets bigger and bigger and in turn, so do the fish

I love winter, the only part that I don't care for is the short daylight hours. Days are getting longer one by one now though! Won't be long til I'm casting in the 9:15 pm twilight

They spray the TN river for weeds too. Everyone hates it but no once can stop it. The only grass in my area is downtown where there are no docks just industry along the banks

They are everywhere, top to bottom

Woke up this morning thinking i had a dream that someone whipped bama. turned on sports center, it actually happened!!!!!! Sweet!!!

Gotcha, thanks. Nice catch

I use a crappie jig and a spook mostly

Those look cool, I think my brother catches those out of the mid Atlantic and eats them. Are they wrasse???

I keep seeing dale gribble from King of the Hill saying to hank “I give you one job......”

The limits are 14” for largemouth and 18” for smallmouth. I’m guessing they will place a 12” limit for spots because there is no length minimum on them. I’m also not sure what they count a mean mouth as but somebody weighed in a 19 lb limit of meanmouth when flw came here, I want to say it was Scott Martin but I’m not sure. Smallmouth will be a major player, there’s a bunch of 4-5 lb ones

For the record, it is indeed awesome

Maybe UCF would have fared better if they borrowed LSU's blindfolds and played in them

LSU should be able to beat UCF any day with blindfolds on

The ball was tipped now fellers...... Let's give some credit to the defender that got his hand on the ball

I don't think a 6 loss team has ever made the SEC championship game. I could be wrong though

Got some more food, one was 15”

The wind blows everyday there, sometimes is pretty scary. Enclosed cabin deep v seems to be the way the walleye guys do it

dear diary: I threw a topwater in 48 degree water today and some fish ate it

Nice job

Colts....... who saw that one coming

I root for all the teams in the sec....... root for them TO LOSE!!! Except for TN of course. I get sick at my stomach thinking about cheering for Alabama . Where’s the vomit emoji............

Go Clemson............

That sure is some delicious trash