Good Friends & Some Smallie Porn

[Dwight Hottle]

A-Jay headed over to help get me dialed in on the smallies. We faced cold temps & extremely dirty water from a very unfriendly windy April. A-Jay managed to get a new PB despite the conditions. Another friend who saw his PB largemouth & and his PB smallie pictures nicknamed him big fish Andy.

The smallies were tight to the bottom most days & negated the jerk bait bite effectiveness. As the water cleared & warmed the fish moved shallower & started to suspend. After A-Jay left another pair or buddies took over where A-Jay left off. We found a good bite going in a remote location without all the boat traffic and started to lick our chops. Then the dreaded east wind afternoon pattern started. It lasted for about five days . Off shore southenly winds changing to stiff east wind in the afternoon which shut the bite off liked someone hit a light switch. We still managed to have fun & catch some nice smallies.

 

 

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Part 2! -- With a little help there old man!

 

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Those are some UNBELIEVABLE smallies!  Save some for me, because I WILL be heading up there.  WOW!!!

 

Jeff

[bighed]

Bucket list fishery for sure!  Congrats on the BEAST smallies!!

[Lucky Craft Man]

Dwight, Great Looking Fish!! They should just give you the keys to the city and make the month of May, Dwight Hottle Month.

[KU_Bassmaster.]

Beautiful!!!!

[hookset on 3]

Those are truly Gargantuan Smallmouth! They're so broad from the side that their heads look tiny.

 

If I ever hooked one and it came up to the side of the boat....instant panic-attack!

 

 

The Scrounga's are having an Epic 2013, wouldn't ya say.

[A-Jay]

 That was quite a memorable trip to Lake Erie, especially when a new PB is recorded.

While waiting (and hoping) for friendly conditions, I stayed a bit longer than we had initially planned.

Thanks for putting up with me for an extra week . . . . . . . . . .

 

As Dwight mentioned, the conditions really challenged us to get on anything consistent.

But Dwight is a gamer and he fishes hard.  It was all I could do to keep up.  The man is a Jerkbaitin' Machine. 

In the end we did all we could do and were rewarded with some Fat Bronze.

 

A-Jay

 

 

 

 

 

[powerduster]

Sweet fish and they look like tough fighters.

[Big-O]

Dang... My knees are shakin   

[AK-Jax86]

Those are some monster steroid smallies nice pics

[Tuckahoe Joe]

Awesome fish!

[Will Wetline]

Whew! Those are big smallies. They make me tremble just lookin' at 'em.

[roadwarrior]

Woo-Hoo!

 

Great pics, too!

 

 

 

[MarkH024]

Just awesome! Thanks for sharing!

[Bankbeater]

Wow! Sounds like you had a great time catching those monsters.

[PABASS]

Thanks for sharing, those fish are FAT..  What # test and type line do you use?

[Dwight Hottle]

We use 10 lb braid usually suffix 832 or suffix performance braid but any braid will work. The 10 lb braid get the baits down deeper and is adequate strength.

[Hooked_On_Bass]

Beautiful Smallies!

Thanks for sharing.

[pbrussell]

I would say I'm green with ***, but that's the wrong color of fish, so count me brown. Amazing.