TnRiver46

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

Congrats @rv8apilot, I bet that water is raging

I’ll go! But seriously I have tossed This idea around in my head for years. Get a group of people and just canoe and camp down all the smallmouth rivers in the US. Video the entire trip and somehow make money off it .

Holy smokes. Maybe that’s fish had just come from a low country crawfish boil!!!

I bank fished your home lake from 5-6 last night and got skunked. Water was still way too warm, probably at least sixty. It felt like a hot tub when I stuck my hand in it

You just described my entire life of fishing experience in one post. Try all kinds of lures to no avail, throw trick worm and catch fish after fish

I was born addicted to it, hopeless case. Treatment is useless.

I'm going this weekend! Like @Russ E said, the worse the weather the better the bite. What really shuts them down is bright bluebird sky on my reservoirs.

I would throw whatever jig you’ve got and if they are short striking it follow up with a shakey head or something. I’m usually surprised at how big of a jig a small fish will eat

A new boat battery! Yee haw...........

I still can’t believe they are having it here of all places. I honestly think smallmouth could win it but obviously largemouth can get bigger. Right now the flood gates are open on both the top and bottom ends of the reservoir .

You learn something every day! Although I’m not taking them out of the shadow box

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I have two of my papaws lucky 13s but they are poppers not wake baits. Bomber long A is my fav, second place is storm jointed thunderstick

The panfish bite has been pretty decent lately, the current is raging so any slower water has fish all in it . Water temp 53-56

Good looking fish. I have always heard they don’t fight well but I can remember 2 or 3 that fought me like the devil. One was this summer trolling , surface temp was 82 and a 20” walleye slammed a crank and fought like a 5 lb smallmouth