Our fall fishing



Great catfish hole on Tn. River lots of fish have been caught right here

Although I haven't been able to go fishing this fall because of many different reasons the fishing has been very good some of the one's we know that are fishing are having very good luck I have seen great catches in crappie ,bass and catfish one couple I know caught a 43# white cat which if I heard it right one of them fell out the boat over which turned out to be pretty funny although he said he slipped  but if your in a small flat bottom boat and you pull in something that size it is going to flop around and it is like having  another person in the boat and if you stand up it can just pitch you right over the side . Always remember in smaller boats especially to be very careful and always were live vests , they make some very nice ones to fish in that are not big and bulky or orange these vest cost a little more but are worth it. When on the water one never knows what may happen accidents happen in seconds not in minutes and you always need to be ready and be safe,and then have fun the fish are just waiting for your hook so go get them.www.fishingpoleracks.com

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fishing is all that matters

You know some times we make terrible choices  while we are fishing ,we go to this sweet little hole to crappie and bass fish it is all shallow and there is an enormous amount of cover so the fish do very well there . It has several small lakes tied together by these little shoot I mean they are connected but its less than 50 yards between them the front lake wasn't doing to well this day so we went to the back and fished there for a couple of hours and was catching a few nice crappie it was a nice early summer day and mostly cloudy and had sprinkled on us a couple of time we decided not to leave but to go to the truck and get the rain gear out and keep on fishing.When we got to the boat ramp there was another fellow there fishing at the ramp and he was getting ready to leave he ask us if we were staying and we told him that we were and he decided if we were so was he ,we told him that we figured it would just sprinkle of and on and the fish was biting and we intended to make the most of this.We got our gear out and took our small boat back to the back were we had been ,in this lake you are down in a hole so to speak there are hills around you that block your view of any weather that is coming then out of the west a very dark cloud started over the hill and we decided it would probably just sprinkle and slide around us we couldn't"t see the hole picture a couple of minutes later it started raining and i mean raining you couldn't"t see the banks you could just barely see the front of the boat and it was less than 12' away we cranked the boat and went straights across the lake to the bank and it was still raining like crazy it did this for about 20 minutes and quit  we had to bail the boat out this is a very small boat 12' with a 4.5 horse mercury motor no pumps this is a boat we used to fish here and other sloughs in the area that you need just a small boat and this on was 3/4 full of rain water we finally made it back to the ramp and there sat that man that was fishing there in his truck he waited to see if we made it in he said he was about ready to find someone that he was about convinced we had been sunk,and it got close.  If he happens to read this post i would like to thank him for waiting to see that we were OK, the great thing about your fellow fisherman is that they care and are always willing to help one another if in trouble and we never know when that will happen .But just don't ask about our secret hole you won't get a straight answer.Of coarse after we got home we had a mess all of our gear was full of water and grit and it all had to be cleaned and put up so that next time we would be ready to try again.

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Jug Fish'n

Jug fish'n can be some of the best fun you have ever had there probably a lot of different ways to do this but we will talk about the way I have done this I like to use one gallon milk jugs the plastic ones with the screw on lids not the snap on ,if you use the snap on's when you get a fish on and he takes the jug under it can pop the lid off and there you go the jug can fill up and you lose that fish and jug,these jugs need to be bright in color and is good to number them this is why we like white milk jugs you can see them from a little distance the numbers insure you get them all back ,fish like to take them in to the bushes at times so you have to watch them. The number of jugs varies from state to state so check your fish'n regulations in your area. Tie 120lb test nylon trout- line line on to the handle of the jug check your depth finder to see where the fish are holding at fish don't just  sit on the bottom all the time so you need your hook to be at their level or just above.We bait up with what ever they have been biting on if it has been worms ,hot dogs,skip jack,or even rooster livers it doesn't matter just what ever they are biting on.We like to use about 20 jugs for 2 people that's all you can keep up with any way.Now its time for the fun you are rigged with a jug line bait and a good hook of the size you prefer don't get to big but needs to be a good one I think we use about a 2/0 hook ,we forgot to talk about the sinker this depends on the water you are fishing if it has current it takes a little more I like to use enough to keep the bait down but leave the jug laying down so it works like a bobber when it stands up your getting a bite, now turn them loose let them start floating off don't put them all in one place scatter them in a reachable area and wait you can be fishing with a pole while you wait but when the action starts you may not have time you will chase jugs all day and it may not sound like fun but wait until you get the first one in you will be hooked your self .
Primarily we use this method for catfish'n some use dough balls for carp but we never bait with a bait to catch bass or crappie, this is not permitted in some areas and we consider it a unsportsman like method for catching true game fish, although you can not control what may bite a hook please if you catch something that is not right practice catch and release one needs to do this as much as possible any way although we all need a mess of fish every now and then,after all that's part of why we fish.