TnRiver46

Congrats!!!

I rarely catch the limits of bass you are seeking but I love fishing away from the bank. Then again it sounds like the creek arms of our lakes are bigger than your entire bodies of water so you have limited options/choices. Also we have reservoirs with steep drops that are easy to find. One tournament angler that I watch on YouTube fishes natural lakes up north and he stays offshore most of the time. He mentions rock spines and weed edges in every single video so I assume those are key areas on natural lakes. I would try to find the steepest drop you can offshore and work it thoroughly with a feel bait like a Carolina rig. My best days offshore are when I can find a random log on a steep drop off

What are clouds??

Ha! Yes time will heal the bass populations but it has the opposite effect on you and me!

There’s not a whole lot of timber in my area so I fish all of it. Down in Alabama I fish cypress stumps

Weightless worm, watch the line as it sinks

If it’s not sold at a store near me, I don’t need it

Drought and flood are mother nature’s population control, time will heal it

Yeee haw!!

I fish the entirety of every bluff I go by, not just the ends. Fish like them!!

Oh gosh that’s two wrongs bahaha we are having a sunny event in East TN today.....

When I go to bite the tag end of my line off a strike king bitsy tube, I get a little salt in my mouth. Delicious! It makes me really want French fries though......

I get excited and call my friends when I kill fish! Who’s bringing taters???

Ornery as they may be, I can still win a hand to hand combat battle with one 100% of the time.......

If it ain’t a truck I don’t want it

That’s wild! But one of my pet peeves is when people use the word “event” when referring to weather!!! Hahaha. I just call it crazy weather....... we had a couple similar hail storms (or should I call them hail events??) recently

Can’t get it all into one picture That tackle store owner has you right where he wants you

Same here

I’ve never paid over $40 for a reel and they all work well. If they break I fix them, they really aren’t complicated

Mine is the ........ oh who the heck am i kidding I hate those stupid things

That’s what I do. And I use torn up worms instead of z man worms. This should not be surprising as there are hundreds of ned rig threads on this site alone. People can’t get enough of it. My friends have pretty much quit throwing everything except neds. Works out great for me since my baits are different than what everyone else throws haha

First world problems!!

I like twitching a fluke along the milfoil edges near my house. And of course frog, oh the frog!

Zoom fat Albert after the tail gets bitten off is a Great bait for ned head

I don’t care for their plastics either. Chatter bait is good tho!! Hand poured baits made from plastisol are buoyant and a lot cheaper than zman soft baits