Fishing' with Fish

I took my ole buddy Fish fishing today for smallmouth. We launched out of Center farm and got bait pretty quickly. Once again the bait this year has been the absolute best threadfin's I have ever seen. They are perfect size, easy to catch, and good and spunky. Ran down to the transition flat at Marney Bluff to start our day action. After a good little bit of work I caught one decent smallmouth that was about a pound and a half and the fish man caught his first ever freshwater drum.

Early Wood Duck & Canada's

Ethan, Ian, Dylan, and I went duck hunting this morning hoping to cash in on Tennessee's early Wood Duck and Teal five day window. It also happens to be early Canada goose season as well. Before the sun came up we headed out to Long Island and beached the boat at the TWRA access point. We trekked across the island to the opposite side where we could access some of the pothole ponds. We dumped out six Wood duck decoys and took our positions, right at shooting time; half an hour before sunrise. The anticipation was thick, we just knew we were going to have the birds flying in any minute. We waited anxiously for the next hour or so but didn't see any birds. We did get to watch about six whitetail deer browse the shoreline on the island just in front of us about 100 yards away. It was really cool. What heard a lot of chatter from geese around us but didn't see many and then just as if they were wanting to commit suicide 12 Canada's flew over the top of me and Ethan. For some unknown reason neither one of us shot and then just as quick as they came they were gone. In just a bit 28 Canada's swam into our little pothole and sat out in front of us at about 50 to 75 yards. Just out of shooting range. It was killing us, we were hoping so bad that they would swim over just a little bit towards our decoys. We had visions of each of us limiting out in a matter of seconds. But instead they flew off in the opposite direction. All in all it was a fantastic morning even though we never pulled the trigger. Before we could even get the boat loaded up on the trailer we were are you talking about tomorrow morning's trip. That's how it goes when you're addicted!