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Thermacell is one of my better investments for sure......around the water and in a treestand.

Have fun fishing. My wife travels several times a month for her Job, gone weeks at a time on occasion. I pass the time on the water ?

It's been sloooow here in VA, been dry and hot. Got on the water at day break, fished for 6 hrs , missed a good one early on a buzz, caught a 2lb LM on white spinnerbait and another 3lb on a skirted jig.....that is it. Threw 5"-7" flukes for the most part. My local lake is heavily mossed over.

My fondest memories are fishing and camping along the river with my brother, we did it every year for many years when the Smallmouth were spawning. He's a logger and roofer, always working.....what an idiot. Lol He gave up fishing but I still make the 20 mile float every spring and still find it very enjoyable. I fish 90% alone, occasionally the wife goes but she turns it into a picnic atmosphere and talks to much.

I've always found that hard plastic top water baits have lower percentages hook rates like spooks, jitterbugs and torpedoes.....why I prefer buzz baits.

Yeah, cichlids are very popular in the aquarium world but the problem is they can get quite large for the average aquarium and very aggressive so the owners simply dump them in a nearby water way after they're tanks get terrorized. Good news, Mayan's don't get that big in the wild in comparison to LM bass but has a big attitude.

Nice, Big northern on a Ned.

I don't like getting worm guts on my reels. Lol Nightcrawlers do work but attract to much attention from pesky little fish. Now if I'm taking a youngster fishing then nightcrawlers are perfect.

Wow that is thick. I definitely throw a frog with heavy braid.....slow twitch.

I have 2 Feelfree boats. They build good stuff and stand behind them. Good fishing.

Here's another one to consider, a great fishing platform with several options. Jonny boats Bass 100. Won't allow me to post any pics for ya' ?

River Smallmouth are a particularly easy fish to catch but as mentioned, get in the river and float and enjoy some nice action with about anything in your tackle box. Find drop offs and eddies.....eddies are turbulence behind big rocks that may or may not be exposed but you'll notice that the current is actually flowing in a circle and sometimes back up river.....they'll be one hiding there.

My wife's 2017 Santa Fe has the 3.3 with 290 hp and 5000lb towing capacity.....should yank a bass boat with relative ease.

If I'm floating and need to cover water for active fish then I throw nothing but white spinnerbaits or pearl flukes. Stationary or wading I prefer bucktail jigs with pork or fat cow trailers. Creature baits work also.

I'm likely a minority as I carry a very small tackle box with only proven baits, time tested. I even have certain colors I won't stray from. BUT I fish with a guy who keeps on his bass boat.....11 rods-reels and 7 tackle boxes the size of a microwave. We both have fun and catch fish ?

Because it's not much else to do around here.....fish until hunting season then start fishing again.

PowerPro for everything, no leader.

I've had both for many years and this is my unbiased opinion. Kayaks have come a LONG way to accommodate the fisherman and are very convenient......just throw it on the truck and hit the river or lake. The wife and I are very much into RVing and spend every weekend on a lake somewhere but I can't pull a bass boat and trailer so a fishing kayak it is, with trolling motor of course. But I can never compare a kayak to a bass boat. My Skeeter was more comfortable, MUCH MUCH easier to cast more accurately standing on solid platform and sight fishing during the spawn is no comparison.....give me the bass boat. If I lived closer to the bigger lakes I'd definitely have a bass boat again but for now, convenience wins.

Close.....Front Royal is south fork, I live on the North fork , little town of Edinburg

My favorite fall bait is MAGNUM flukes with 5.0 hook. If I'm fishing deep clear lakes I put a finishing nail in the nose of fluke. Lol Big fish bait

Army 1980-1986 72E

Been an avid bass fisherman for many years now, ok I'm 58. Lol Thought it was time to join a forum and this looks like a good one. Thanks for having me.