webertime

Tiny Torpedos, Zara Puppies, Road Runners with Marabou or 2" & 3" curly tails. 3" Yo-Zuri Pin's Minnows (my all time favorite) I've been using a 5' and 5.5" UL rod with a Shimano 500 sized reel for more than a decade to catch Smallmouths up to 5.25lbs and Largemouths to 6lbs. I prefer to use my UL gear when the Smallmouths run out of Lake Champlain up the smaller rivers to spawn. (Lewis Creek, LaPlatte river)

I was about 13 years old and was fishing a Jig with a curly tail. Snagged... Well I started to pull it and snap it released from the weeds out of the water and comes sailing straight at me. I had long enough to think "huh, would you look at that." before the it smacked me right between the eyes and dropped me on my butt.