Masshole Mike Posted May 26, 2010 Posted May 26, 2010 I went out to a local smallmouth fishery with my girlfriend a few Sunday's ago. We only managed 3 fish on the day, but they were good ones. She got a solid 3lb'er (her first fish caught EVER!) and I bagged two 2lb'ers. One of the 2's and the 3 came off of beds, but there weren't many beds to begin with so I figured they'd be moving up soon. With that in mind I decided to make another trip this week and planned on Tuesday as the day. What an amazing decision that was! I took my sister Amy and my friend Brian out (Brian had never caught a smallie...) and we hit the water for 6:30am. By 9:30am we already had a dozen fish in the boat, with the first fish coming on the first cast of the day. Lucky for us the smallies had moved up onto a crap load of new beds, and we had them AAAAALL to ourselves on this day. We lost count of fish caught, but a good estimate, and with no exaggeration, would be that we boated 60+ fish on the day between the 3 of us. All but one was caught on a Spot Remover 1/8 Pro Model paired with a Zoom Shakey Head worm in Green Pumpkin. The one rogue fish was caught on a Rapala X-Rap. Size ranged anywhere from 1/2lb up to 3 1/2lbs, with a majority of them in the 2 - 3 1/2lb range. Would have been nice to bag a few huge ones but I'm not going to complain about losing count of 3 1/2lb smallies! I also bagged a 5 1/2lb largemouth on a Yum Buzzfrog about a week ago. What a year it's been so far! Leah's first smallie (gotta teach her how to hold em now!) One of my 2's from my trip with Leah My trip with Brian and Amy 3 1/2 (just one of many!) Amy with a 3 1/2 3lb'er Brian with a red-eye smallie Brian showing off a good 3+ smallie and Amy in the background with one to match! So many doubles caught, and even almost a triple! Last but not least, my big fish this year, 5 1/2lbs even Hope everyone else has been tearin em up lately! PS. Don't know why those two show up sideways, my photobucket shows them being right-side up. Oh well... Quote
Super User Grey Wolf Posted May 26, 2010 Super User Posted May 26, 2010 Excellant !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Quote
steezy Posted May 26, 2010 Posted May 26, 2010 Great Fishing, I am so jealous of those smallies. Quote
Super User Dwight Hottle Posted May 26, 2010 Super User Posted May 26, 2010 WTG Mike. Sounds like your tearing them up. Quote
Super User SPEEDBEAD. Posted May 27, 2010 Super User Posted May 27, 2010 Holy shart!! He lives!!! What up man. Glad to see you didn't get out of fishing... Quote
senko_77 Posted May 27, 2010 Posted May 27, 2010 Dang Mike, good to see you on here again. Way to catch em and be sure to get on here and talk a bit more often Quote
Masshole Mike Posted May 27, 2010 Author Posted May 27, 2010 I fell out of fishing for a little bit Wayne, just got busy with other stuff. But this past winter we spent a lot of time on the ice, freezing our scrawny MAsses off but catching loads of fish and it got me pumped on fishing again. Plus my girl got her first rod (a Fenwick, of course...) so we've been going out a lot together too. This year's been awesome so far though, between the 5+ chunker I caught on a random "I've got nothin better to do so why not go fishing for an hour?" kinda day to the smallie slayin' we put on yesterday, I'm sure glad I've gotten back into it! I'm even debating going back to that spot this weekend with the woman to see if I can put her on some more bronzebacks. Hope things have been good with you my man! Quote
Masshole Mike Posted May 27, 2010 Author Posted May 27, 2010 PS. Dwight Hottle, that fish is absolutely monstrous. Thing looks like a tank! Quote
Super User burleytog Posted May 27, 2010 Super User Posted May 27, 2010 Nice fish, more photos of your sister please. Quote
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