The countdown!

[Swamp Girl]

10, 9, 8, 7....

 

Don't you just love the countdown to a fishing trip? I've been in Sarasota and D.C. the last four days, so I've been in a world of cars, cars, and more cars. Now I'm counting down to traffic/strip malls/fast food franchises detoxification, which happens on a lonesome pond or bog with my paddle and my rods. I'm going bog fishing tonight and then gully fishing tomorrow morning. I can hear the countdown in my head, as exciting as any at Cape Kennedy. I'll let you know how I do tonight and again tomorrow. I spent part of the morning changing line, retying, and rigging some flukes, which I plan to use tonight and tomorrow morning, as well as my green frog, a loon-colored Whopper Plopper, a red spinnerbait, and wacky Senkos.

 

Gosh, I hope I catch a 19-incher or bigger. They make my heart race! 

 

6, 5, 4, 3....

[AlabamaSpothunter]

Haha, I remember as a little boy having a friend spend the night so we could get up really early to catfish......we were so excited we stayed up until like 2-3am, and woke up at like 9 or 10am.   Needless to say we didn't catch any cats that morning.

 

I loathe Urban areas and do everything possible to avoid them.   Suburbs aren't much better.  

 

You said it perfectly in regards to detoxification.    I think this is a big reason why I like to fish by myself as well, moreover why I like to fish at night the best.    To be on a lake at night by yourself is truly my happy place.    

 

Good luck, be safe, and have a blast!    I'll be looking for the hawg pics in the latest catch thread

 

 

[Swamp Girl]

Thanks, Alex. You get it. You truly do. 

[AlabamaSpothunter]

44 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

Thanks, Alex. You get it. You truly do. 

Right back at ya Katie, nice to have a community of such likeminded folks.   Makes a crazy world seem a little less crazy.    

 

It's hard for non fisherman to understand why we fish, kind of sucks not being able to share such awesome moments of your life with family and friends.

[TnRiver46]

I like urban fishing. I thought this thread was about the rapala countdown minnow haha

[Swamp Girl]

8 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

I like urban fishing. I thought this thread was about the rapala countdown minnow haha

What do you like about urban fishing?

[TnRiver46]

57 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

What do you like about urban fishing?

Prepare for thread hijack………..

 

 

Well, everything. Sunrise, sunset, smallmouth, largemouth, fun paddling with the wife and friends, and of course fresh white bass for dinner. Also the part where people think fish don’t live downtown always makes it a little more fun 

 

I feel as though this question is better answered photographically……..

 

All these photos are taken within 1-2 miles of my front door, everybody loves the home field advantage (edit: except the one where I’m standing in the water, that’s in downtown Sevierville about 20 minutes south)

 

AND!!!!!!  I can drive my boat by my favorite bldg on earth, neyland stadium 

[Chris Catignani]

28 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Prepare for thread hijack………..

 

 

Well, everything. Sunrise, sunset, smallmouth, largemouth, fun paddling with the wife and friends, and of course fresh white bass for dinner. Also the part where people think fish don’t live downtown always makes it a little more fun 

 

I feel as though this question is better answered photographically……..

 

All these photos are taken within 1-2 miles of my front door, everybody loves the home field advantage (edit: except the one where I’m standing in the water, that’s in downtown Sevierville about 20 minutes south)

 

AND!!!!!!  I can drive my boat by my favorite bldg on earth, neyland stadium 

Woo ha...Young warrior.

[GreenPig]

45 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Prepare for thread hijack………..

 

 

Well, everything. Sunrise, sunset, smallmouth, largemouth, fun paddling with the wife and friends, and of course fresh white bass for dinner. Also the part where people think fish don’t live downtown always makes it a little more fun 

 

I feel as though this question is better answered photographically……..

 

All these photos are taken within 1-2 miles of my front door, everybody loves the home field advantage (edit: except the one where I’m standing in the water, that’s in downtown Sevierville about 20 minutes south)

 

AND!!!!!!  I can drive my boat by my favorite bldg on earth, neyland stadium 

That Striper is morbidly obese. 

[TnRiver46]

1 minute ago, GreenPig said:

That Striper is morbidly obese. 

It was a male too.

[GreenPig]

Good luck. Only crazy people night fish.

[AlabamaSpothunter]

12 minutes ago, GreenPig said:

Good luck. Only crazy people night fish.

Out of reactions for the day.....dang you internetz.

 

You have night fishing, and then everything else in my book.    I'll never stop believing as well that the big fish bite the most after the sun goes down.    I love everything about night fishing!!!!

[T-Billy]

No way I could live in a city. My wife and I were joking the other day about us being caught in a Dellroy traffic jam. We had to wait for eight cars to pass before we could pull out. We musta sat there at least 20 seconds. ?

 Some nice fish there @TnRiver46.

[Swamp Girl]

4 hours ago, Chris Catignani said:

Woo ha...Young warrior.

I know where Mr. 46 lives! Hawg City, USA.

[T-Billy]

1 hour ago, ol'crickety said:

I know where Mr. 46 lives! Hawg City, USA.

You gotta watch him. He claims to only catch dinks then posts pictures of hawgs. Claims to fish with $6 Walmart rods, then posts pictures with a St Croix... I bet a spinnerbait is his #1 lure.? He probably caught that big catfish on a Nichols Pulsator with a skunk meat trailer!!! ?

[TnRiver46]

1 hour ago, T-Billy said:

You gotta watch him. He claims to only catch dinks then posts pictures of hawgs. Claims to fish with $6 Walmart rods, then posts pictures with a St Croix... I bet a spinnerbait is his #1 lure.? He probably caught that big catfish on a Nichols Pulsator with a skunk meat trailer!!! ?

Hahahahaha

 

3 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

I know where Mr. 46 lives! Hawg City, USA.

It’s the part of the TN river, the headwaters,  with the smallest fish. When you get down around Chattanooga the fish get about twice as big as what I catch 

[PhishLI]

7 hours ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

You have night fishing, and then everything else in my book. 

No doubt.

7 hours ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

I'll never stop believing as well that the big fish bite the most after the sun goes down.  

X2

7 hours ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

I love everything about night fishing!!!!

Absolutely!

[T-Billy]

15 hours ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

I'll never stop believing as well that the big fish bite the most after the sun goes down.

The vast majority of my big fish have come from either dark or cold water. The night bite has slowed in my neck of the woods, but the cool water season is just around the corner.