If I was a hammer
I'd hammer bass in the morning
I'd hammer bass in the evening
All over this land

I'd hammer out smallies
I'd hammer out largies
I'd hammer out love between
The basses and myself, 
All over this land.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvjgLToPfTQ

 

18 hours ago, Dwight Hottle said:

I don't consider myself a hammer by any means. I have made the observation that there are numerous hammers among the members on BR from north to south & east to west. 

Yep, and this guy is one of the biggest hammers here.

 😉

I think the term is kinda like a nickname. If you refer to yourself using it, you look like a dork. It's something that can only really be used by your peers to refer to you.

When I tell people about the fish I catch they often reply with, "ha, ha, ha!" I assumed they were laughing, but now I wonder if they all stutter and are really trying to say, "ha, ha, ha...hammer!" 🤣

@T-Billy I agree with that

1 hour ago, T-Billy said:

I think the term is kinda like a nickname. If you refer to yourself using it, you look like a dork. It's something that can only really be used by your peers to refer to you.

 

Look like a dork? Gosh, I hope so for I am a dork!

3 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

 

Look like a dork? Gosh, I hope so for I am a dork!

Ain't we all???!!!

@ol'crickety I just thought you were a bass geek 

No chance. Not even close. I've fished in tournaments with legit hammers (this guy named Nick Audi from just over the border in PA) and it made me realize that if they're the hammers, I'm the nail.

When I told my brother-in-law I was becoming a hammer he told me I hit the nail right on the thumb.

On 12/13/2023 at 7:30 AM, TnRiver46 said:

Lemme borrow one, mines on the roof and it’s frozen…….

Frozen???? In Knoxville??? I think I know why you forgot it there. Trippin' on the roof. Thank the Man upstairs you got down without slipping on the ice.

If I'm a hammer, it's a tack hammer. Dinks love me.

I’m a hammer in the essence of I’m heavy and useless on the water, and I sink. 

@VolFan I am right there with you 

7 hours ago, papajoe222 said:

Frozen???? In Knoxville??? I think I know why you forgot it there. Trippin' on the roof. Thank the Man upstairs you got down without slipping on the ice.

If I'm a hammer, it's a tack hammer. Dinks love me.

Haha they have frost on them in the morning but it’s always gone by lunch. I didnt get up there til after it melted, and as luck would have it, I left it where I could reach with my feet on the ladder 

55 minutes ago, Susky River Rat said:

@VolFan I am right there with you 

 

And yet, simply launching on the beautiful Susky means that you're immediately and forever a winner. 

@ol'crickety most the areas are fish on it are far from beautiful. There are many beautiful spots on it up north.

2 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

 

And yet, simply launching on the beautiful Susky means that you're immediately and forever a winner. 

I don’t know I’ve seen some crashed sunken jet boats on there . I also saw black and white video of it flooding into a mine shaft and drowning several miners . Appalachia is pretty but she will get ya 

@TnRiver46 when you see the susky at 10ft then realize that’s a little over  half way to flood stage you appreciate  how mighty it is quick. Average is 3-5 on the level I use. Flood stage is 17. 10ft is my limit of when I go out and I just use the river as a highway to get to other places. 

1 minute ago, Susky River Rat said:

@TnRiver46 when you see the susky at 10ft then realize that’s a little over  half way to flood stage you appreciate  how mighty it is quick. Average is 3-5 on the level I use. Flood stage is 17. 10ft is my limit of when I go out and I just use the river as a highway to get to other places. 

Floods were the major issue facing my region before TVA, they somehow do an excellent job of controlling the water. The TN river swallowed Chattanooga almost yearly before they started making dams 

1 hour ago, Susky River Rat said:

@ol'crickety most the areas are fish on it are far from beautiful. There are many beautiful spots on it up north.

 

I only know the Susky from Kristine and it sure looks gorgeous in her videos.

 

 

I've fished against some hammers, guys that just catch them every time, no matter what. I get lucky sometimes and catch a few. 

@ol'crickety she isn’t far from the populated areas in that video.  You can literally fish  at the base of a landing strip with a nuclear power plant in sight. 

@Susky River Rat, funny you’d say that, she has posted a bunch of videos lately of fishing concrete pillars in an urban setting, bet that was it 

I think the term "hammer or hammering or hammered" is more of a general adjective or action to describe someone who is either really good at something, or they're pi** drunk.

 

Can't say I ever recall someone referring to me as a hammer in specific relation to fishing.  I can definitely remember being called hammered back in college more than once though. 

 

Lately I've been hammering roosters when pheasant hunting with my Benelli.

^now that’s a fine scattergun