TnRiver46

I've got some big hand poured paddle tail swimbaits, the soft materail has good action at slow speed

I just went out to the boat and found those to take a pic for the post. It appears I only have 3........ Do they still make it? I thought it was sour grape or sprayed grass, the label is worn off

I tried it once, wasn't for me. I didn't like the luck of the draw part as a co-angler, felt like I just threw $100 into the water. And they drive too fast......

I agree . I bass fish with live bait a lot and almost never do I just sit and wait. Usually pitching live shad under docks and trying to keep them from swimming around all the posts . Also if you hook a live shad in the back it tends to swim really fast........ And on top...........

Zoom u tail zoom trick worm zoom finesse worm and zoom swamp crawler are the ones I like! Rigged all kinds of ways but one great way is like this on an 1/8 round ball jig head. Very good hookups and affordable . I have mentioned it a few times on here, I call it poor mans Shakey head

Been skunked many a times on live bait. If it’s wrong I don’t wanna be right

Deep fried fish and an ice cold bottle of suds can really change a man

Too cold to fool with launching a boat after work, got one bank fishing. Much better than watching espn from 4:30-6

I know a spot or 3 where you can catch the redeye bass (micropterus coosae)

My buddy always says “take a marker buoy and throw it backwards. Not drop it, throw the /@&)” thing!”

Sure have! In fact I snapped a picture of the spoon on the graph just after I caught the fish. It shows up on 3 d sometimes also, like it did in the picture. It seems the water has to be pretty calm for that to happen. I have always been able to find the fish and drop down to them, it’s the biting thing that seems to be more like 1 in 100. Most of my catching happens when I’m just dragging Texas rigs on bottom.

I just read the title of this thread again and I don’t care why it is so addictive. I just want more

Shad wax is what you use to dress a hair jig. Also float and fly can be casted on regular gear from a boat where you can slap the water on the back cast to load the rod. It still helps greatly to have a long spinning rod specially designed for float n fly. No clue how you can cast a fixed float and long leader from the bank . I imagine it would be beyond frustrating.

I will have to say............. it looks like the one from e Tn is bigger.......... nice catches

Yes sir! And my girlfriend bought me the electronics for Christmas a few year back! Haha

Yee haw. I ♥️winter

Plastics : bobby Garland baby shad Bobbers: I despise every bobber I have ever tried. I've caught more crappie with Texas rigged creature baits than I have with a stupid bobber Minnows: they work great but I don't use them. I live close to the lake so driving to go get minnows would slow me down. Sometime I catch crappie with shad I have netted

I can't make it work. Berkeley gulp minnow on 1/8 oz head or hair jig without bobber works way better for me. Honestly my catch rates go to almost zero every single time I attach a bobber to my line

Honestly you could paddle from Thompson boling to neyland stadium to volunteer landing on a paddle board. In fact you can rent paddleboards at volunteer landing and do just that, people do it all the time.

You can catch all those except Pike about 4 hrs north

Mono is bueno

Do you ever feel like you mark fish all the time but don’t catch them? Well today I dropped a spoon straight down on this and caught an 18” smallmouth! It Renewed a bit of confidence for me as I typically mark fish and bait everywhere and rarely drop straight down and catch them

Well I guess that depends on what the venue exactly is but I would say about 1/2 mile - 1 mile. Volunteer landing is where they are “checking in,” it’s just upriver from the stadium a few hundred yards. I don’t know about weighing in , maybe civic coliseum? It’s all very close , but can be outrageously steep if you are traveling on foot

A guy recently paddled it in a canoe traveling upriver starting at the confluence with the Ohio . He had a dog with him too! I think it’s like 650 miles, I’m guessing he went upstream because the wind typically blows upstream. But the current can be crazy too!

I only got one today but it was cool. I was trolling a break line, looking for a key piece of cover on the drop off like @Team9nine @Catt and @WRB are always talking about. I found what I think was a tree with a smallmouth on it! Dropped a spoon straight down and he attacked it immediately. I have never read anything by buck perry but I think he caught me a bass today