TnRiver46

I was thinking the same thing reading all this . There’s a reason you see does everyday all the time and rarely see mr. big out walking around in the daylight. It’s because most people don’t bother with a small doe and they know what/where is safe. Wildlife basically just respond to the pressure that is put on them. They may not know it in their little brains but their survival strategies are very “smart” in my opinion. And older animals are smarter than younger ones

I had a fun experience this evening, we ran into a school of smallmouth under a floating dock in extreme current. Just to give an idea of the current, I have a friend who grew up in this neighborhood and she says her parents used to tie an inner tube to their dock and the kids would sit in it and pretend they were getting towed by a boat. There’s also a lot of wooden docks that are piles of splinters now , a couple pretty much brand new. The black and blue rage tail menace accounted for all 6 fish, seemed a heavy bullet weight was the key. I saw the entire school of fish (or the entire amount of fish we caught) when I reeled in the first one, they were mobbing it trying to steal the lure. We Kept motoring back up to make another drift if you could get the menace under the dock you could get bit . It wasn’t easy though, you had to throw about 40 feet upriver of the school to get in the target zone. Not bad for launching at 6 pm and wasting 30+ minutes on a dead spot near the ramp, then making a long run

Wow congrats! Nice hat

Never tried them but I would guess yes!

Some might say the yearly learning of how to survive is "smart"

Cool deal. Where ya headed?

Thanks for the heads up, I will try to check that out somehow

I saw a guy in Alaska hook a red salmon that jumped out of the water and up in the woods. While hooked!

Rattle trap time

1/4 of the way between Memphis and Johnson city...... there are vacation homes all over all the lakes in east TN, chickamauga has the biggest bass

A lot of fly fishermen I know target Smallies. They seem to do pretty well especially when it gets really hot outside, almost like a finesse topwater bite I’ve only caught one salmon but I’ve heard they fight like crazy

I don’t know man, you’re the one that called out my state’s public education haha. All @813basstard was saying was 25% is the same percentage in each case and I echoed that

Still one fourth of the whole in each case. 1/4 of 1 million is 250,000. Still 1/4 (quarter). That’s why they call it a quarter million dollars

1/4 is 1/4

Agreed. My girlfriend’s family even eats a dairy cow after it has given out. There’s no sense in wasting

I've heard of several cases in fresh water as well and the guy that died in Texas was perfectly healthy with a good immune system and no wounds

Indeed it is

Nice one man!

Negative, except maybe a mile or so up once from Anderson county Park. It had an algae bloom or something so we turned around. I fit in well at a madhouse...... The smallmouth jump like crazy there

Haha, had to go back in the archives to find a picture of the long A. I think that was early October 2016 or 17 on the french broad River. At daylight it sounds like largemouth sucking in frogs but it's smallmouth busting shad. A similar sound that I hear at daybreak when I camp on your lake at PT. 19 in June and July

Always remember what we think looks good underwater might not be what a fish thinks looks good

Just keep practicing and you can be a ambidextrous dog walker! Haha. I have some RH baitcasters and some LH baitcasters, I like both

Baitcaster with 12 -15 lb mono. Sometimes 20 lb

Absolutely! It’s almost that time of year for me when they start chasing threadfin on the surface every morning and will chew the paint off of those plugs. The predictable crazy action usually ends by 8:30 or 9 but they will continue to hit it all day if you are willing to wait a lot longer between strikes. I also like waking a bone colored bomber long A in addition to the big walking baits. I see a lot of shad cutting a v when fleeing so it makes sense in My mind anyway. Sometimes the fish also agree

I have a dock on a similar sounding lake. In summer I have best luck setting a minnow trap and catching shiners or using a fly rod to obtain small bluegill. Circle hook, throw it out and set the rod in a holder. Then I cast a swimbait and worm around while watching the set line. In winter I can catch all kinds of stuff. Summer seems to be largemouth and smallmouth with an occasional white bass or yellow perch . I have been working and swimming more than fishing last few trips down there and still caught these