Tennessee Boy

I think Wheeler is always fishing for a win and skipping the knockout hurts your chances of winning. There are many anglers that will not turn down guaranteed top ten money.

The scopers are killing it this morning but Sprague is holding his own with his crankbait. This is fun to watch.

I should have mentioned that Tennessee does not require a license for older seniors. That’s people over 100 years old. 😆

A Tennessee annual fishing license if you're over 65 is $4 or a permanent license for $49. I'm two years away from being eligible for this. Unfortunately they are changing it in July. The annual license for seniors is going up to $21. There is no permanent fishing license option. The only other option is a lifetime Sportsman's License that is $368 for age 65+.

If you’re a biochemist then I assume you’re familiar with the concept of statistical significance. Can you share your experimental process, the numbers you observed, and the level of statistical significance you observed? I think the vast majority of conclusions that most anglers reach on these matters are the results of misinterpretation of the natural randomness in fishing. I’m not saying some baits don’t work better than others, I’m just saying I’ve rarely seen statistically significant data that supports it.

The only question is can someone else take the lead before Palaniuk weights his fish.

I was very active in a great club in the 90s. When I moved away I never found what I thought was a comparable club. What made the club so good was the friendliness of the club. We competed hard on the water but helped each other get better off the water. Many clubs are full of guys that are just there to compete for money which leads to a lot of fighting over the rules and accusations of cheating. That's not a fun environment to be a part of in my opinion. For others it's exactly what they are looking for. It all depends on what type of club you want to be. I think making provisions to allow the nonboaters to fish shows that you are in a friendly club. I would welcome a third person in my boat even though my boat is not build for 3 people.

I thought he was going to have a heart attack. I know I would have. A 9 pounder on a crankbait with money on the line is dangerous stuff. 😆

You'll need to get with Glenn and arrange to pay the fine. 😆

If you get called for holding in football you get a penalty. You can't say you shouldn't be penalized because the hold didn't change the outcome of the play. The rules should be enforced, even the dumb ones. I don't like the rule about soliciting info because I think it penalizes the honest anglers and I think there are many that are less than honest. KVD was talking about rule violators on a podcast a while back. He talked about one MLF tournament where on the first day everyone in group A went one direction except for one angler that went the other direction. That guy did very well and the next day a bunch of the group B anglers went where he went. It suggested that they were watching the coverage from day one which was against the rules but there was no way to prove it.

I looked up the specs for that reel and it said the drag was 3.5KG which in Tennessee is equal to 7.7 pounds. 😊 It’s important to reiterate that you rarely need more than 4 pounds of drag for bass fishing. I don't think you will be flipping heavy cover with 65 lbs braid with that reel.

I have Solix 9s and a Solix 15 all on RAM mount at the console and up front. I used the largest ball (D size) and it works well. Just make sure the ball is mounted securely. I remove my units from the boat after each trip and the RAM mounts work well for this.

Apparently it is a concern for the OP.

What kind of reel are we talking about?

McKinney may be the next KVD.

So has anyone on this forum ever broken a rod while casting?

Yeah, if you ain't making the reels then you're just a marketing company. It's still fun to debate who sells the best DOYO reel...I guess.

If you live in the Lascassas I'm familiar with then you are very close to Percy Priest. It's a great fishing lake until the drunk pleasure boaters take over in warm weather. I stay away in warm weather even on weekdays. The other lakes mentioned are also good. You might also want to consider Tims Ford. The closest world class lake is Guntersville.

It’s ironic that Scott Martin wouldn’t even be here if pro anglers didn’t seek information before a tournament. His father met his mother at a local tournament weight in when his dad and Bill Dance were watching the weightin before a BASS tournament. I guess it was legal then. 😀

It depends on many factors. I don't think you can spend too much time graphing. I've been known to spend 100% of my time graphing. I don't catch much but I find lots of places to fish in the future.

I don't think he failed the polygraph test. He told the truth during the test and the truth got him disqualified. That's the only value a polygraph test provides. It sometimes compels people to tell the truth. I heard a story of police using a copy machine to get a very dumb suspect to confess. They put his head on the glass of the copy machine and ask him if he did it. When he said no they pressed the copy button. The guy realized the machine could tell he was lying so he confessed. 😆

About the same time the carp invaded Kentucky lake the fishing tanked. I went decades without getting skunked in the month of May on Kentucky lake. I took off work for a week in May 2019 and fished four days on Kentucky lake and caught 1 fish. Everyone blamed the asian carp for the bad fishing. Was this the cause? Who knows. The fishing has rebounded since then. The carp are still there although I suspect that their number have dropped some. There were other things that could have contributed to the problem. The amount of grass that was in the lake went down significantly. This always affects the fishing. Kentucky lake is important to me and I've tried to look objectively at the asian carp problem. I have not found the answers I've been seeking. In the end all that really matters is the fishing has improved a lot in the last couple of years.

Five years ago I had two shops within 5 minutes of me. Both are now gone. There is one 20 minutes away that I've been to once. It was not worth the drive. BPS is about 20 minutes away and has a good selection but I mostly buy online now.

I think BASS chose to address the FFS paranoia through scheduling. MLF has already shown us how different Texas in February is from Florida in February.