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We have them in places, guy named bassquest on YouTube has a video of them in Chickamauga

And you can whitewater raft below the dam! Nantahala river also forms part of Fontana lake

It’s milfoil for miles right now!

“Find the bait” is a great strategy but not always best. Largemouth bass sometimes behave like a grouper buried in cover. And you can catch a resting bass if he just so happens to see your worm

Arkansas....... I’m very familiar with the weather there, I get it 1.5 days later....... weeeettttt. Half of that state is underwater !

Here’s hoping! Sounds like an interesting climate to say the least

You mean to tell me there are low pressure systems in SoCal? Once or twice a year, maybe? Haha

14 lb mono is hard to break unless you are in slop or pads. It does look like you were near some pads but mono is very abrasion resistant

His old show was called city limits, this sounds exactly the same . Maybe he is going to bring back Steve urkel and family matters too!

I know, for a fact, without a shadow of a doubt ........ that I have a pretty cool barometer that was my grandparents . That is all.

Well the govt doesn’t let my home lake come up like that (thank god) but they do let the flood storage lakes come up several feet when it rains. Common opinion is that the fish push up with it, but that’s typically the green ones. Just remembered to click on the link, and realized it was where @everythingthatswims Fished that bracket. In which case I would say throw a football jig! Haha ! I would think that the smallmouth are going to suspend during that flood and deadsticking a fluke or senko is all I would know to start with. Maybe even something more buoyant than a senko that will sink even slower, like a zoom trick worm or finesse worm weightless

Ah turnover. Something I never have to worry about! Our water moves pretty quick

Well they do get stunted all the time in small ponds. Too many mouths not enough food. If a small pond around here has no harvest you will have lots of 11-13 inch skinny bass. If the bass are dink’s with a full belly, they are still dink’s. A healthy ecosystem will have a decent amount of big bass, not just short fat ones . Just because we think bass population “shouldn’t get out of hand,” they still do. It doesn’t really matter what we think about it, it’s kill or be killed in the world of bass. When fish have ample food, they get big. Simple

35 day quarantine??? Good gracious

Awesome job, persistence pays. Those weight estimates look dead on to me

Pretty awesome to see y’all getting some nice fish!!! I know the two of you worked hard at it there for a while. Double congrats on two pbs

They are eating up plastic worms lately! We actually got a real cold front and water temp dropped to .......... 73... but it was chilly

Caught a nice one right near volunteer landing today , which is where they check in I suppose

It was a photo finish when I got home! Bout 5.5 hours

I’ll be dreaming of that thing eating a frog all night........

Just keep driving up 26 into Asheville........ then get on 40 into Knoxville........ I’ll pick you up at the ramp and we will catch some smallmouth . I drove from Knoxville to Charleston this weekend and didn’t even have to stop the truck

Awesome!!!

Good to hear! May we could dig a tunnel and send you some rain, don’t think we have ever been short

I learned that I am still, after hundreds of casts, unable to effectively use a chatterbait

Man that’s rough. There’s usually at least 4-5 reservoirs here that almost never get muddy, at least on the downstream portions. Some are 30,000 acre flood storage deep lakes that move very very slowly and the others are smaller lakes just downstream of the deep ones. They have constant clear water flowing from the bottom of the big deep lakes