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My ex loved your work. lol

I started a subscription with Harry's. I got no complaints, even though I'm not supposed to be shaving my head with these blades. I can't grow enough on my head to make it worth letting them grow. Let the beard to crazy instead.

I dunno where in east tn you're at, @kingmotorboat, but you need a better class of friend. Cause that one you got right now's bitchmade.

What warning light are you talking about?

Same first choice options as everywhere else, a jig worm, a soft plastic swim bait, a jig, or a squarebill.

Excellent work. Jig bites are dope.

I usually just wear sneakers. During winter I'll wear boots with thermal socks because cold feet are the worst.

Today fishing (but not catching) at Fort Loudoun Dam.

I'm off tomorrow, so I intend to have a fishing event at some point. We'll see how it goes.

Wheel hub manufacturers hate this one weird trick.

I gotcha. That's much more reasonable. lol

That's fascinating. My dogs are useless but they're sweet. lol Five baby malligators is a whole handful. Good luck with that, sir.

That'd be nice. Most of my fishing, I'm at a disadvantage because I'm on the bank, and I've got maybe an hour to fish before I've gotta be somewhere. So I live or die in the water I'm sitting in front of, which, often, is about 50 yards of shoreline on a 14 or 15,000 acre lake that's basically just a wide spot in a 652 mile long river system.

So, most of my fishing, I'm (very slow, but) foot-mobile. I take a little backpack with me. In that ruck I have some extra line, my leatherman, bug juice, vape juice, daystar repellant, a gallon ziploc with bagged soft plastics, and a utility box that contains: - hooks/weights/jigheads - skirted jigs (finesse, swim, and arky-style) - a small selection of crankbaits If I've guessed correctly, I'm having a good day. I'll never open the bag unless I need to replace something I've tore up or broken off, or I need the pliers. If I've guessed wrong, I'll have the entire contents of that bag – and the containers inside of it – spread out in front of me, frantically trying to figure out what the daggum fish want. Or you reel in half a hook because it rusted through. lol

New dog day! @casts_by_fly, in that last photo, is that a pudelpointer she's chilling beside?

Atta boy.

There ain't nothing I like better'n spending somebody else's money.

@ol'crickety if I could see that far down I'd go into vapor lock. My PB largemouth came on a jerkbait (a 6th sense provoke, for anybody wondering), and the water was clear enough I could see her follow, think about it, then come back for it. I about lost my mind. It was so cool.

There is never a bad time to bring up weightless flukes.

I just remembered: It also minimizes the colors I second-guess myself tying on. The colors I throw get increasingly limited toward the extremes of the color spectrum as visibility drops. You want to cut a nice silhouette in chocolate milk.

I think @GetFishorDieTryin is talking generally about increasing the weight of the lure. Different hardware can absolutely accomplish that that, but you can also use suspend dots or strips to tune the lure.

I think dirty water takes a lot of guesswork regarding fish positioning out of my thinking. The worse the visibility, the closer to cover the fish seem to want to stay. ETA: And, to @JohnFromLisbon's point, I think dirty water gives them less time to inspect the lure and think about it. Hits on a swim jig in dirty water feel like they're trying to yank the rod out of your hands.

They're really rude, tbh.

I think a lot of people underestimate how fast fish can move – in almost any water temperature – when they're properly motivated. Once you find the fish, you have to listen to what they're telling you.

That's a whopper bullhead.