12 minutes ago, Blue Raider Bob said:

Katie, please let me assume you have Google Earth, search Open Lake Tennessee. It is to the right of the Mississippi River. Once you have it, look to the right for a slough called Right Hand Arm. Just below is another slough called Goose Pond. Zoom in on Goose pond. It is surrounded by Cypress trees in the water. Note the Cypress trees in the middle of the pond. Cypress Trees keep their leaves year round so there is always shade. No need for fancy lures here. Toss white spinner bait and hang on! Or, if your heart can take it, floating frog! Ka-Boom!!!

That's West Tennessee Swamp fishin'! Only way in is a four wheeler draggin' your flatbottom boat. Leave before dark 'cause the skeeters reign supreme when light fades!

 

Bob, I looked at Goose Pond and this is my reply: YOU"RE SOUTHERN KATIE! Or I'm Northern Bob. That's Katie water. Or where I fish is Bob water. 

 

Either way, we're kinfolk. 

 

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Or, if your heart can take it, floating frog! Ka-Boom!!!

 

^This^ made me laugh. That's exactly how I feel about froggin'. Frog fishin' is the cardiologist's best friend, for I'm guessing it's stopped more hearts than Big Macs. 

1 minute ago, BayouSlide said:

 

Gets even more interesting when the trees start sprouting dinosaurs ?

 

 

That's Jurassic fishing!

4 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Wait a minute, cypress trees ain’t got leaves……..

Sure they do, and the trees are also deciduous. When they loose their leaves the branches become bare, hence their name. Bald Cypress. I have found that not all leaves are shed and some keep them year round. The leaves resemble pine needles so to assume that they don't have true leaves is certainly understandable. 

2 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

 

That's Jurassic fishing!

 

...and Catt will back me up on this, if you want a gator, just toss a buzzbait. They'll chase it back to the boat so you better have a high speed reel ?

5 minutes ago, Blue Raider Bob said:

Sure they do, and the trees are also deciduous. When they loose their leaves the branches become bare, hence their name. Bald Cypress. I have found that not all leaves are shed and some keep them year round. The leaves resemble pine needles so to assume that they don't have true leaves is certainly understandable. 

Yea I figured they were needles like pine 

3 minutes ago, BayouSlide said:

 

...and Catt will back me up on this, if you want a gator, just toss a buzzbait. They'll chase it back to the boat so you better have a high speed reel ?

 

Or a Stanley Rabbit ?

 

Them little suckers about 2' long can right in front of ya! 

Way up some cut on the Cumberland. @Blue Raider Bob

17 minutes ago, Blue Raider Bob said:

Sure they do, and the trees are also deciduous. When they loose their leaves the branches become bare, hence their name. Bald Cypress

 

Although many conifers are evergreen, bald cypress trees are deciduous conifers that shed their needlelike leaves in the fall.

2 hours ago, Catt said:

 

Although many conifers are evergreen, bald cypress trees are deciduous conifers that shed their needlelike leaves in the fall.

 

And if anyone has any doubts they're welcome to come down here and help sweep cypress leaves and cypress balls (the seeds, maybe half the size of golf balls) off my roof and patio. ?

26 minutes ago, BayouSlide said:

 

And if anyone has any doubts they're welcome to come down here and help sweep cypress leaves and cypress balls (the seeds, maybe half the size of golf balls) off my roof and patio. ?

I have to clean those balls out of my boat every time we go down south. Those needles/leaves are about the stickiest things in the world, they grab a weedless weightless plastic worm like nothing I’ve ever encountered 

No one has posted any Susque pics yet? Here is Susquehanna at Harrisburg, and its tributaries.

 

First 2 are parts of my home lake. The 3rd is Georges lake.

Here's how I feel about this thread:

 

Show your fishing holes!

 

Two during low water ?

 

Duck River near Henry Horton State Park, middle Tennessee.

1 hour ago, Catt said:

Show your fishing holes!

 

Two during low water ?

 

I’ve fished a lot of places like that, can’t count how many times I got the boat stuck on one dead center and had to dance all around to free it 

Last weekend got the whole lake by ourselves. My wife and I took the boat out for a quick run and to be part in a production of Gotham Garage (by a friend requested). This is my only fishing hole and don’t plan to move or fish anywhere soon.

 

 

This is my salty fishing hole. We flew over my neighborhood OTW to Aruba in August.  

 

 

I'm lucky because I can wheel my kayak half a block down and go striper fishing.

 

This is my 'home' fishing hole.  20 minutes from home and not pressured.  It holds good LMB & Chain Pickerel

 

 

I have a favorite SMB hole, but I keep that one quiet.  

 

On 11/14/2022 at 11:32 AM, TnRiver46 said:

I see a few Salem witches in the forest 

I was thinking Sleepy Hollow

This lake is by far our favorite lake. I’ve talked about it a few times before. It’s a bit of work to launch the boat and more work to get to fishable water. Well worth it since leprechauns and unicorns live at this lake. ?

 

 

^I know this lake! Well, not this exact like, but lakes that look just like it. And I love them all.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cfzd9S1OGXJ/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Not any smallmouth, but a good fishing whole for largemouth.  Presa Trigomil, in Jalisco Mexico.  Best thing, is the solitude, plus big bass is good too.