TnRiver46

Congrats!!!

I think I’ve fished it 3 times and my biggest was about 2 lb on frog in the slop. It is cool to see a lake with scum on it , they kill all that on most lakes upstream

Wow glad you’re back at it! Nice fish, I haven’t caught a largemouth anywhere near that big this year

Looks like supper

I saw a customer shoot a snake with rat shot and it was just bouncing off the snake. Then he put a regular LR round in there and killed it first shot

That's the hardest place I've ever tried to catch a bass, at the hardest time of year to boot. Too many people. My only advice is don't get too focused on thinking about "the spawn" and just go fishing. It's all anyone ever talks about and Ive seen plenty of people worry themselves to death about prespawn post spawan blah blah blah. Sometime its nice to just drag a plastic worm around near the boat launch, results can be surprising. Lots of people have won a tournament down there in Chester frost when their engine wouldn't start . Those two fish you have in the picture would be the best trip ever to chickamauga for me

Because it is 100 percent beyond the shadow of any doubt a LMB. You know more about catching them than I ever will but this isn't the first time on here you've misidentified spotted bass. We had to distinguish between species all throughout college that had been in jars of formalin since the sixties. No color or markings on these fish so you had to use the more reliable identifying characters. I guarantee that if you show the picture of the OPs bass to any knowledgeable fisheries expert they will tell you is pure micropterus salmoides as it has NOT A SINGLE identifying characteristic of a micropterus punctatus

It all depends on how far south. I'll Wade anything anywhere near me but I don't want to suck into quicksand muck in a Louisiana Marsh . Here's what happened to my buddy wading in Edisto trying to net some bait hahaha! Boy did he smell rotten for a few hours

I’ve never fished it but the dam is leaking so they have it waaaaaaay down. This will work to your advantage as a bank fisherman, you could be able to walk around most of where the lake used to be and cast. There are a lot of largemouth, smallmouth, hybrid, and stripers in Boone, also some monstrous brown trout

Lakes with no shad??? So sad.......

It was very easy for me and several others. There are members that routinely catch spots that will agree, @Bluebasser86, @NorcalBassin And @lo n slo are a few that come to mind. Once you have held several spotted bass you can pick one out from any photo

Hey hey hey whoa whoa whoa. Are you suggesting the husky jerk is an “x rap knockoff?” The husky jerk was around before the x rap was ever thought of. And they are both made by the same company. Just ribbing you a little bit, good river info

I always go weightless Texas rigged worm when I’m catching too much goop

There’s smallmouth in downtown Nashville in the Cumberland. And some 60 lb stripers!! Yes you could use that boat all the way upstream until you Start getting into trout water where they run jets. I’ve never driven directly from Nashville to Chattanooga but I’m guessing 2-2.5 hours on I-24. Its a treacherous stretch of road according to Johnny cash coming down monteagle mountain. “It’s a loooong steeeep grade!” (You should check out that song) The two main bass lakes near Nashville are Percy priest and old hickory. Lots of LM in both, good SM population in priest. Center hill dale hollow and Cordell Hull are also in the area

Well that all depends on which part of Tennessee you live in

There is one thing you can do............ “Lieutenant Dan!!!! Ice cream!!!”

Largemouth 100%. Come on guys that looks nothing like any other species

Rooster tail

If they worried about wind direction in Florida they would starve to death haha. The reason the saying exists is because for a good portion of the county, maybe besides the Atlantic coast, the wind comes from the east about .001% of the time. It’s a convenient excuse but could easily be accurate. The one day out of 500 that the wind blows backwards, the fish may take the day off

Nice bass. Looks like that bait works pretty well with the split ring

I don't fish tournaments but I enjoy watching bass and flw. I can't believe that no one ever mentions or pushes for a combination of the two, catch weigh and release best 5 fish. Professionals being rewarded for catching one lb bass makes me change the channel every single time. Might as well watch pro ball players do layup drills

The big uns can bust anything. At least she bit it! Haha

These are the only “shoals” we have . But there’s hundreds of miles of them, all far out of bass boat range

@Bluebasser86, I like to bite those back!

Cut skipjack herring