TnRiver46

Hey - oh!!!!

They aren’t going to snap your rod, just play them out. You can always let them pull line easily off a fly reel. I feel like spinning gear is more “finesse” because you can cast without all the line flinging around in the air

Usually 2 spinning and one bait casing is enough. And I usually have one or two more unless I’m in a canoe/kayak or walking the banks

Dear god help us all.

Haha! Me neither. My fiancé’s dad LOVES chicken feet but he grew up dirt poor and they ate most anything. I believe he eats them for shock factor nowadays

Well you better be looking at nature instead of the domestic fowl feet about to go down the hatch!!!

One of my favorite lyrics from ray wylie Hubbard, “you know I’m funky and strip bar dirty and I like a les Paul through a vox AC30”

Can’t go wrong with purple 20 feet down . All year

Somewhat flemsy rod and 6,8, or 10 lb line depending on clarity, cover, and size of lure . Always cast With the wind if possible

Do you give out apples and toothbrushes at Halloween too??

Surface temp 36, ive never approached that! I would use a little ice fishing tungsten jig with a wax worm I guess! But if that water was more like 46, I would jig a spoon in that life zone you are referring to.

I got them direct from their website

Or bite some people?? Ha

Ha!! I actually should have it for work but it’s like 20 grand for humans and 20 dollars for dogs

Jumped up and bit me!!!

I go to postimages.org and click direct link once it’s uploaded. Then paste into the text box here. It looks like this, I don’t have a computer just iPhone

That’s the way I do it!!! Sometimes people catch skinny fish and just assume they are spawned out, you never truly know unless you cut it open. I’ve cut open plenty of fish I was told were “big females” only to find out it was a male that just ate a bluegill. An 8.9 up in the NE might not even still be spawning, they give up when they are old just like some humans haha

Nah man, you didn’t screw up! Life happens when it happens, you’ll get after those fish!!!

Since @Glenn provides an awesome website that I check like 700 times a day at no cost to me, I figured why not support a site sponsor (and catch bass in the process)

And you make fish-catching jigheads and lures !

Fishing has been my one and only hobby/pastime, mental therapy, and main source of food since I could form memories “REALLY enjoy” is an gross understatement

Lunch?? On the water?? I can’t ever find any. Once my friend cast a lure up in the top of a tree. Not the part near the water, the top of the tree. He’s trying to stand up as tall as possible and get the plug back, taking forever. We finally asked him what the heck he was doing in that tree and he said “I thought there was a snack bar in here somewhere”

Gotcha. I’m not brave enough to paddle open waters unless the water is up close to 60 degrees or higher. someone drowned flipping a canoe on chickamauga Saturday. Granted 3 people in it and zero life jackets, but I still just stay near the bank.

Safety first! Also if you put a downrigger on a kayak, you weren’t thinking “safety first” I don’t have any cold water immersion clothing, I just don’t paddle very far from the bank and wear PFD