Jmilburn76

Always wanted to learn and after my father-in-law retired he joined a group and invited me to go several times. Sadly, I got hurt and had a stroke and with left hand issues Ill never get to.

I second guess myself with pretty much everything down to even going fishing.

Monkey got me good as I had placed an order over the weekend and at 45% off I just had to place another order just now.

For me it would be... 1-jig 2-ned 3-drop shot

Welcome to Bass Resource from a fellow Tennessean.

@HaydenS Congrats!

Awesome, she is healthy to say the least!

Why not a Native Falcon to go with your Ultimate?

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I was able to take the kayak out for a few hours yesterday and this is all I caught. It seemed like I threw everything I had and caught this one on a crappie jig of all things. I havent seen one that the lateral line marking only covered half the fish. I think the weather dipping back to freezing has kept the water a little too cold for the spawn just yet and I was banking on them being shallow.

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There is always the option of doing Nationwide tourneys and there is always plenty of them going on. I know KBF does a month long tournament for the state you live in. You can go as much as you want in a that month within your state as long as you go to public accessible water. Im also new to tournaments and just signed up for my first one, it is through KBF and is Catch22. The goal is to catch 22 fish in 2022,its to raise awareness of 22 veterans committing suicide daily. The cool thing you have all of 2022 to complete it, its $22 to enter, read more here. https://www.kayakbassfishing.com.

Im glad this storm is gone, I just knew we would have a tree come down but thankfully we didn't. We had gusting wind most of the day and not much rain, besides losing power for an hour all is good. Im still going to do a once over to make sure we don't have roof damage.

Reminds me of my uncle who was married to basically a traveling nurse.If he couldn't find something he would buy another even though he had it in one of the many storage buildings they had across a few different states.

Ughhh...I swear I think TN and KY have became the new tornado alley. I hate cold weather and snow but no worries of naders.

I snapped a brand new Shimano SLX rod after getting snagged and barely jerking it straight back towards me. I threw it away when I got home.

The best thing is to take it out a few times with only the basics before rigging it out, especially before drilling any holes. Stuff that looks good and you think will work may change after you get it on the water. I have changed stuff several times on mine the 3 years Ive had it. Most of the time I take 3 rods, two 3600 boxes that fit in organizer under my seat, and a small KVD speed bag that holds soft plastics. The saying less is more. If Im fishing a tournament and decide to go all out, 6 rods, eleven 3600 boxes with 9 of them in Blackpak and Ketch board. Id guess the Blackpak is 45lbs.

Out of the 3 I have it has to be the Curado K that I won on ebay for $46($66 shipped) that looks brand new.

As flyfisher stated try to demo as many as you can that you are interested in. Also if you have FB there is generally an owners group for most brands/models out there. You can see if someone is close to you that is willing to let you take theirs for a spin. If you have FB keep an eye on Marketplace for used, I see some crazy deals on there from time to time. Also you can also look into the yaks that give you options to add a pedal system later on that way you aren't out the whole amount at once. I got my Native Slayer Propel 10,in my pic, brand new for a little over $1000 from Cabelas so good deals can be had. The most important thing with kayaks is a PFD and wear it every time you are on the water!

Around 2002 my uncle had a house boat at Pates Ford Marina on Center Hill Lake in TN that he gave to my dad after retiring as he wanted to move back to Michigan. He lived on the houseboat for a few years before he retired and even though he fished a lot he never moved or started the boat. It took my dad and I about a month of tinkering before we got it started.We weren't boat people and knew very little about them, to get it started you had to choke it and just keep trying and she would eventually start. So my dad, myself and a girl I dated decided we were going to take it out all night and try to catch some catfish. We found a good spot with a muddy bottom at the end of a branch of the lake and tied the front of the boat and dropped a couple small anchors off the back. This area was pretty much straight up hills all around us and very steep. We were drinking, listening to the radio and having a good ole time, even managed to catch a few keepers. A few hours go by and the beer had been flowing, the gf decides to lay down and a few minutes later comes to the back where my dad and I were saying she heard something in the woods. We brushed her off saying it was nothing, and she went back inside. After 20 minutes or so she came back saying it sounded closer to the boat. This time I got up, got my dads 500000 candle power spotlight and battery to investigate.I got to the front of the 48' boat opened the door and started to shine the light and didn't see anything. I starting moving the light up the step hill and heard something move about a hundred feet higher and it was fast, for a split second I saw two bright eyes. It had to be a large cat either bob cat or mountain lion. Needless to say we stayed on high alert the rest of the night. The next morning we got ready to leave and couldn't get the boat to start and I ended up breaking the tiny L-shaped key off in the switch. We had no cell phones but probably wouldn't have had a signal anyways, no way to walk out as it was too steep and it seems a large cat was on the prowl.Also 3 of our 4 keeper catfish that was on a brand new stringer was gone to top it all off, we still don't know what got them. We were stranded. I finally found a flat head screwdriver after rummaging around and was able to ease it into the switch enough to get it to turn and she finally started! Not exactly scary but could have turned out much different if one of us would have gotten hurt.

Looks like the link is dead, if you are looking for rod stagers I know Yakgadget makes themhttps://yakgadget.com/collections/track-mounted-accessories as well as 3Dyak (Facebook only). https://www.facebook.com/3dyak/shop/?ref_code=mini_shop_page_card_cta&ref_surface=page

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That thing is a monster! I was thinking the one caught out Old Hickory was about the same size but apparently was only 70 lbs even though it was 6' long.

The pic is typical,I cover up pretty much from head to toe, and if I have any skin showing I get burnt every time. Im never concerned of people staring when its 100 in TN and Im covered like that. It looks like you would just melt but its not too bad, I sweat the most from the PFD covering me up more than anything. I also wear it 100% of the time when Im on the water.