59 minutes ago, scaleface said:

McKinney from 50th place almost made the top 10 again. Hes a phenom.

He wakes up with 5 good ones in the box 😂

Fujita nearly made champ Sunday too

Hackney and welcher near the bottom puzzles me on this one

I've been watching this for an hour this morning and a spinnerbait seems to be catching some fish.

Take notes, @TnRiver46

Tucker Smith is just a scoper I guess.

"hey guys I just discovered this new bait, a 6 inch Zoom Lizard on something called a Texas Rig!"

On 3/28/2026 at 12:00 PM, scaleface said:

Only places I catch them are on the Ozark lakes. I thought deep clear lakes was where they thrived.

On 3/28/2026 at 12:18 PM, bowhunter63 said:

Spots are doing good in Southwest Missouri rivers

Different species of fish fellas. The spots native to the Tombigbee are Alabama bass. You guys are catching spotted bass. The Alabama bass are native to the Coosa system and have been moved all over the southeast from their native range to places like the Tennesse River system, New, Potomac and James drainages in Virginia/WV, Broad in NC/SC, Catawba in NC/SC, Flint and Chattahoochee in Georgia and anywhere else some numbskull decided to drop them in. They are a detriment to anywhere they are not native as they do not just exist. They hybridize native species out of existence in some places. We fish the Broad River system in SC and for every pure smallie we catch, we catch nearly as many Smallie/bama hybrids. The smallies are not native here either, but they were thriving before Alabama bass got into the system and still do. It is just an issue in this region, but think about it. How long before they wind up in the Susky? If they were stocked in the Ozarks officially or unofficially, the smallies would be on the chopping block.

Not sure about the susky but there are spots all through the Ohio river drainage in western PA. Used to be quite a few 30 years ago but not nearly as many now as the smallies and largemouth have pushed them out.

We have both kinds, the Alabama variety is meaner when hooked

Congrats to Christie !!!

On 3/26/2026 at 8:15 AM, TnRiver46 said:

This water looks pretty awesome, lot of cypress lot of weeds etc. People are driving 1-2 hours to get to their spots and having to go thru locks. I saw Brock Mosely catch a jammer of a white bass way back in some backwaters

That would cause me a lot of "anxiety" worrying about locks. I never cared for boat tournaments and rarely did them and actually sold my boat. Fell in love with kayak tournaments and that anxiety even kicks in for those.

For example we had our season opener this past weekend and I'll do one of two things every time. We can launch lakewide and lines out at 2:30 but there's always a place we have to be and sign in by 3:30 or we get DQ'd and/or lose AOY points. It's not like I fish for a living so I have no idea why this gets me so anxious - but I'll either fish a ramp I don't necessarily care for so I can fish all the way up to 2:30 and make it to "weigh-in" by 3:30. OR, I'll fish where I want way out and pack it in WAY too early to insure I make it by 3:30.

This past weekend's tourney was on a lake that is in at least 5 counties. I live in one of those five and feel good about 4 ramps within 10 miles of my driveway. Weigh-in was in another county and I WAY overestimated traffic, distance, unfamiliar location, etc of the meeting spot. I caught all of my scoreable bass in my last 30 minutes of fishing but packed it in early to get there on time. I got there at 2:06. I could've fished another hour probably and culled more.

The actual winner of the tournament left his original ramp and showed up at mine about an hour before I left and stayed and hour after I left and won it on that exact spot.

Obviously if I want to win one of these things I'll have to get that anxiety under control and quit being a pansy about it.