River action

[TnRiver46]

I finally gave the white bass a rest and headed out for some river smallmouth. These fish, unlike the deep water smallmouth, don't mind a good dose of sunshine. We fished probably 8 hrs, action was a little slow but we finally started getting some nice fish around 2-2.5 lbs and 15-17 inches. some buddies fishing the same area got a few a little bigger. Dragging craws on skakeys worked best for us. Mountains were pretty on a low humidity day, tried to capture that with the last picture

[New River Addiction]

Looks like you're in a good spot... Some nice looking fish!

[InFishingWeTrust]

Nice smallies man

 

[Turkey sandwich]

Great fish and I'm jealous of the weather! What kinds of water temps were you seeing down there?  Moving in to spawn yet?

 

[TnRiver46]

Thanks for the comments guys. I didn’t get a temp yesterday but That was an extremely shallow freestone steam that wArms up several degrees everyday (provided the sun comes out) and drops a few at night so I would guess we had low 50s in the morning and pushing 56-58 by afternoon. I think they were spawning some, definitely were spawning there earlier this spring. The water was 60 degrees for a week in February, it’s been a weird year 

[Turkey sandwich]

Oh, wow. That's definitely a bit wonky.  I haven't had a chance to get on the river for smallmouth yet - hopefully next weekend.  We certainly haven't seen 60 degree water temps here in PA yet - at  least on any streams or gauges I've seen. I've been in trout mode, tying flies, or working on rebuilding my kayak trailer so far this spring.  I'm chomping at the bit for a few really good weekends soon.