Abhhh,
I just realized you in TN.
Do you catch stripe bass out there? Maybe in a lake?
We get river runs when the spawn.
Pacific Ocean. I catch hogs and release them.
I will keep the 18"- 24" for food.
Amazing food. Tacos. Battered with tarter sauce.
Pan fried with just sea salt and course pepper.
our stripes in the shallow creeks hole up in clumps of 50-100 around a 4-5ft deep hole in our swift running streams.
This far upstream seldom get 10". More like pan friers. So eager, they'll bite a bare gold plated hook. Lol
Usually just bait a hook with a white blackberry blossom.
My dad has both sides of the stream for about a 1/4 mile reach, can sit in the cold water knee deep in a lawn chair, beer in lap and catch fish at the end of your rod.
Good times
