TnRiver46

Weightless worms sinking very slowly are your friend in clear water. As well as light line

Wow great day. I have never come close to an 18 lb limit

^^I'm not saying I catch them but people do

you guys need to make a trip down south for the winter, we will scout the fish for you.

That looks pretty fun!! Knowing me and my dogs they would get loose and run away

Hate to hear that man. If I lived up there I would have to get into ice fishing, although I have heard that some folks don't like it

Nice fish! Keep setting records, glad to see you are back into fishing going every chance you get

I don't know the reason but the free stone streams in late fall are tough fishing for smallmouth in my neck of the woods also. Tailwaters are still fish decent but reservoirs fish better and better the colder it gets. Some of the best smallmouth fishing we have around here is during the worst cold/wind/rain/snow weather

South Holston fishes much better in the winter, lot of 20+ lb bags of smallmouth are weighed in there when it's super cold

You could always take the fish that died home to eat. When slinging hooks into the water, eventually it will happen. Don't feel bad

Congrats

Too grainy on my phone when I zoom in to tell

Never fished eufala but a lot of the lakes I fish, the creeks will hold Shad all winter. When the afternoon sun hits the creeks they can warm up quicker. I would drive into several creeks and compare their water temps to main channel water temps. I net a lot of Shad for bait and can almost always get them in creeks. Sometimes when it's real cold the creeks are frozen or close to it and the main channel is warmer. Like posted above, some bass never Leave the main and some never leave the creeks. Also, on eufala you probably have gizzard and threadfin Shad. The threadfin die off when it's super cold but the bass will still eat them while they are dying and dead. The gizzards will tolerate much colder water and don't seem to die off nearly as often

Some days they just don't bite. Maybe downsize line and bait when the temp drops. Also a suspending jerkbait sitting still for long periods can work

Strike King bitsy tube is also your friend. Shove a 1/8 oz jig head up into it

I think The video was shot in New Mexico

Northern lakes are so cool, we don't have natural lakes in East Tennessee. At least we rarely have ice!!!

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Good water is everywhere, that's for sure. There are even big smallies that live in the river in pigeon forge

I sure have, we always went to them in high school

I'm very glad we don't have turnover where I live

Largemouth. My girlfriend has caught hundreds of each and still doesn't know the difference Hahahaha. Smallmouth brown largemouth green and black

Still a little too hot here in Tennessee for the best frogging but it is working.

Amen to that. And this year there is no current!!!

East Tennessee (no natural lakes) fishing on reservoirs is toughest for me in the summer. July August and some of sept (with the exception of a daylight top water bite). Winter time is excellent fishing on our reservoirs. The shallow fast rivers upstream of the reservoirs are the exact opposite, they are about useless in the dead of winter but fish awesome in the hottest conditions.