TnRiver46

I’ve never witnessed a cold front in the summer. For a general rule of thumb to throw out that applies locally for me: this time of year, smallmouth with eat everything they can see or feel or smell

I've lost a bunch that swelled up and exploded . Mostly strike King because that's as high dollar as I go. Yet another reason to just fish plastic worms. Ralala husky jerk will also do it. The busted lures are now what I use to throw at gar

Northern Michigan? Sorry I couldn't resist

They make a thermometer for that. I want to say it’s called fish hawk

I was just about to say, I was born without a rear end therefore my pants are always falling down. I wear bibs so the cool breeze doesn’t blow into my crack!!

These are hand poured, not very durable either but I think they are much cheaper. He always throws in freebies too, or as the Cajuns would say “lagniappe” or something like that........

My girlfriend went to bed before washing off her spray tan once....... usually my side of the bed is discolored from dirt but that morning her side was the dirty one! It looked like c3po was in my bed!! Hahahaha

Is this wound from a bass or alligator???.......... haha

From reading all the replies I believe the only thing I see that you are doing wrong is switching lures too often . Sometimes if you don't get bit in 10 minutes you just have to wait longer

I've never seen a heavy action spinning rod except at the ocean

The problem you run into on the TN river is the bait is literally everywhere. If you throw a cast net one time you usually discard 99 percent of the shad you catch and keep the other 200. And that's every cove on almost every lake, so finding the bait isn't hard. There are fields and fields of shad everyday that aren't being attacked at any point in time. So basically, like @Catt said, it differs from one place to the next. Best advice I can offer is throw your fall stuff and let the fish tell you when they are ready

I would just replace the impeller. They aren't expensive

And had meat for supper!

No they are not. Although like @WRB said, the definition of "finesse" has become cloudy over recent years. In my mind if you have a baitcasting combo in your hand, you aren't finesse fishing. To me Finesse is drop shot on 4-8 lb line. Or skipping a 2.5 inch tube under docks with light line. About 2 years ago people just started calling every jig that wasn't a football head a finesse jig. Methinks it was an attempt to sell more jigs

Thinner line is more sensitive, thus better for "finesse" presentations. I like fishing jigs on 65 lb braid, but that's not at all finesse. I would take finesse to mean a small jig on light line. Like 3/16 oz on 8-10 pound florocarbon. 20 lb mono is about as thick as fishing line gets unless you are offshore tuna fishing

I don't think you can finesse fish anything with 20 lb mono

Happy to help. I think I had to use 3-4 oz at my house. When theres ants on my food I just eat them........ My girlfriend didn't really see it that way so I had to take action

I just hope the biggest 5 fish limit doesn't go away. I don't care what they call the tour or who is on each tour, I just don't like watching the major league fishing competition because of the format. It Seems more like a tournament you would see on YouTube between the googans than an official championship competition

It will work but the taper is what makes it unfurl nicely. For pind bluegill use a thick piece of mono (12-17lb) and then some 4-6 lb tied to the end of that

Which one is your favorite? I like the chrome with blue back. After half the paint is worn off from rip rap

I had to blow the horn at someone backing out of a parking g spot Friday evening . It was a close one, first time in my life I have successfully used my horn for it's designated purpose

I'm still 0-fer lifetime with chatterbait..... And I have been throwing it constantly

Well I guess you aren’t going to get a better answer than that .

Something seems bassackwards about this...........

5/6 wt is ok for bass, maybe a little too heavy for panfish. I have been using cheap fly rods since I was 12 and I still buy the cheapest ones I can find that have decent action. I'm a part time fly fishing guide and get to use the $1000 combos for guiding and they honestly make little to no difference. Unless of course you are in sales