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Here's another one to consider, a great fishing platform with several options. Jonny boats Bass 100. Won't allow me to post any pics for ya' ?

River Smallmouth are a particularly easy fish to catch but as mentioned, get in the river and float and enjoy some nice action with about anything in your tackle box. Find drop offs and eddies.....eddies are turbulence behind big rocks that may or may not be exposed but you'll notice that the current is actually flowing in a circle and sometimes back up river.....they'll be one hiding there.

My wife's 2017 Santa Fe has the 3.3 with 290 hp and 5000lb towing capacity.....should yank a bass boat with relative ease.

If I'm floating and need to cover water for active fish then I throw nothing but white spinnerbaits or pearl flukes. Stationary or wading I prefer bucktail jigs with pork or fat cow trailers. Creature baits work also.

I'm likely a minority as I carry a very small tackle box with only proven baits, time tested. I even have certain colors I won't stray from. BUT I fish with a guy who keeps on his bass boat.....11 rods-reels and 7 tackle boxes the size of a microwave. We both have fun and catch fish ?

Because it's not much else to do around here.....fish until hunting season then start fishing again.

PowerPro for everything, no leader.

I've had both for many years and this is my unbiased opinion. Kayaks have come a LONG way to accommodate the fisherman and are very convenient......just throw it on the truck and hit the river or lake. The wife and I are very much into RVing and spend every weekend on a lake somewhere but I can't pull a bass boat and trailer so a fishing kayak it is, with trolling motor of course. But I can never compare a kayak to a bass boat. My Skeeter was more comfortable, MUCH MUCH easier to cast more accurately standing on solid platform and sight fishing during the spawn is no comparison.....give me the bass boat. If I lived closer to the bigger lakes I'd definitely have a bass boat again but for now, convenience wins.

Close.....Front Royal is south fork, I live on the North fork , little town of Edinburg

My favorite fall bait is MAGNUM flukes with 5.0 hook. If I'm fishing deep clear lakes I put a finishing nail in the nose of fluke. Lol Big fish bait

Army 1980-1986 72E

Been an avid bass fisherman for many years now, ok I'm 58. Lol Thought it was time to join a forum and this looks like a good one. Thanks for having me.