Oregon Native

Well with so much information you must have your hand in a cooler and just enjoying what the good Lord created!? Good Luck

Learned from fishing tourneys that someone always catches fish no matter what the conditions. I remember my first cold rainy early spring tourney on the Oregon coast. It was a coastal open and me and a friend thought we could make some easy money. Wow.....it was handed to us. We had one small trout for two days and I was hooked due to the challenge of this sport. Good Luck

Dropshot with an EWG hook.....awesome

Fished the big rains in east Tenn this weekend.....awesome....awesome. Topwater, worms, cranks, it all worked and then got into the white bass too and fished for ten hours in the rain and plain got soaked. Will be drying out boat for a few days!!

Ohhhhhhh....here's another. Quit chewing tobacco about eight years ago when daughter got mouth cancer and asked me to quit. First seven years I think I thought about it almost every day. NOW.....it's cool...it's gone...I'm done. Tight Lines

Just had to share a fishing report. Invited a friend to fish a local lake here in Knoxville area and was kind of hoping the weather was going to hold....well not so much. We had three rain showers come through Saturday with the third one not quitting and dumping a ton of water and wind. But it was an awesome day. Started calm and beautiful with fishing kind of slow and then made a run and found some nice LMB's up to four pounds. But while running down lake noticed several bays with schooling fish...even in the wet weather. Thought we would chase some whites and it was an oh my gosh day with us getting soaked and catching and missing fish for hours. Small largemouth and smallies along with white bass and one small gar made up the day. A zara puppy was awesome along with an ol PoP-R was tons of fun...even in the small waves. I just love love love living here out east and chasing schools of bait and bass. Tight Lines

Just moved here to Tenn a couple years ago and have found Norris amazing in the winter. Will not intentionally go back there in summer ever again. At least during the day. Well maybe if I didn't mind the wait at the ramps, and feeling like a target for all the pontoon boats and skiers!! Tight Lines

Just celebrated out 40th. We do have different hobbies though. She loves to chase that lil white ball and I fish. Tight Lines

SR5 shad rap (silver) 8# line Try different retrieves It will work

Probably fifty plus years ago was fishing Siltcos lake in Oregon with my dad and I cast a live salamander in the tules. It was hanging about a foot out of the water wiggling when about a two and a half pound bass jumped out of water and grabbed it. (I was hooked then too) My dad used to have an expression.....It's just good to be out here. Think he said this as we sometimes didn't catch much. I always thought this was a good expression for golfers not fishermen. I like to catch fish. (saved best for last) Now I get to fish with grandkids......everyday awesome.

Met Hank many years ago at a BASS Nationals....had my wife's pic taken with him. A class act in my book.

Have had gas...but like charcoal the best with a chimney for starting coals. Will probably never go back. Weber....hands down.

Thankyou

Lake Shasta back in my early days. Fishing a spook and was playing a small spot across surface and had a bald eagle swoop on fish and plug. Gave bird the fish!!!

Nice....but with the little time I do get to fish (more than most maybe) I still want something that tow's a bass boat!!! Tight Lines

Having only moved here just over two years ago I'm still believing this move was a gift from above. Fathers day I got to take my son out who has two sons (2 and 5). With his work and life schedule he doesn't get on the water much and this is the first year that things seem to be coming together for me to get out more too. The grand kids are mainly the reason for our move and Sunday was proof positive to be sure. A couple weeks ago we made plans for the day and by the His grace it was an AWESOME day. The day started with my son and I hitting the water around six and fishing till noon before we were to pick up the grandkids. The bass bite was on with shakey heads and as we were going down the bank I mentioned that looks like a good jig tree. (well my son loves a jig rod and setting the hook HARD!!) I gave him the heavy duty lami with 20# and a homemade poisen jig with a Drycreek 5"bluegill grub trailer and it was game on and I never got my rod back!! Nothing huge but still his fish were bigger than mine which was just fine. Get a phone call and its now time for the grandkids...(desert) Picked them up along with my daughter who wanted to take pics and we headed down lake to a little cove for some bluegill action. (have I mentioned I love this state) Anyway bluegills were obliging and we had the young ones busy and it looks like will have some future fishermen here. Daughter had to get back as she can't take much sun due to previous cancer !@#$ but she had fun. Also got word the young un needed a nap. Headed back out for an hour to let the young un sleep and it was off to dinner......an amazingly blessed day for me. Tight lines

Ya dud good. Take a pic and release and get a replica done. Believe memories will be a touch sweeter if ya know she's still swimming. (save the lure too with pic) More tight lines

When I lived out west and fished the Columbia the wind was your friend. Would idle down the river over the waves and then point the boat back up with the wind and burn lots of bank. Many times rollers came over back but all was good while cranking or fishing a heavy football jig

Have used a good quality duo lock for years. Have not had a weed problem but then haven't lived in the south long either. Strength wise...no problems and use for top water too. I like to change lures quite a bit and also feel that the duo gives the bait free'er movement. Tight Lines

Yum is good...very good. Some days ya need it...some ya don't. Tight Lines

I go fishin to enjoy what our good Lord has created and to listen to the various sounds and like when I fished Lake Powell the absolute silence. To each their own and tight lines

I just use dish washing soap and a scotch brit and be gentle....cheap and has worked for years. (I'm probably outdated on methods)

Brads is out of Washington and does gear mostly to salmon and steelhead.

Make your "yes's" be yes and your "no's" be no. The first time works the best. (just my two cents)

Two choices for me....full size spook is awesome all around bait period. I also like the puppy for tough days....it to gets all kinds of bites and fish. Tight Lines