Big Smallie from SE Ohio

[NinjaFishin]

Just wanted to share a fun experience today. Caught a pretty nice small mouth in SE Ohio.  First cast nothing...  Second cast, catch a little smouth... Third cast BAM!  I was using a Shad colored Super Fluke, weightless texas rig.  The fluke's action in the river current really set em off I guess  

This is the first lil guy.

Then this beast!

Holding him next to me for scale.  (didnt have anyone around to shoot a pic )

And my favorite shot. Thanks super fluke!

[Grey Wolf]

Nice !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What river were you fishing ?

[dgquail]

nice

[Copen1822]

Looks like fun. Gotta love those river smallies!! 8-)

[NinjaFishin]

I was fishing on the Hocking river bass-brat

[Grey Wolf]

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[roadwarrior]

I love me dem brown fish!

8-)

[farmpond1]

smallmouth are beautiful fish.  Nice catch!  Looks like the type of river I generally fish.

[SuskyDude]

Good fish.

Whats with the gloves? Inquiring minds want to know.

[NinjaFishin]

used the gloves for a better hold on the fish. I always feel like they are slipping outa my hand when i hold them w/o gloves I dunno why. One of my quirks i guess  

[thetr20one]

Those are nice river smallies. Keep an eye out in the next couple weeks I am gonna post some real deal Ohio smallmouth.

[roadwarrior]

Those are nice river smallies. Keep an eye out in the next couple weeks I am gonna post some real deal Ohio smallmouth.

I would like to see one, too. I know you guys catch

some numbers and I keep hearing about 5, 6 and 7s,

but I don't recall seeing one from up there. Post a

whopper! I'm already excited.

8-)

[mw]

Do you release or eat your catch?

[thetr20one]

I am not hijacking this thread by anymeans. I am gonna change my avatar for you road warrior. The one I put up will be the largest of a 29.71 pound limit. It's from last year and is a 6.4. I am going to Erie next week to catch a few for the fish across america.

[NinjaFishin]

zomg you hijacked my thread! lol   ;D

and mw I'm not sure if you were directing that question at me or not but I do not eat what I catch unless I'm camping somewhere far from any town and I'm hungry  

[yzcajunman]

the good thing about the gloves is that your boss cant see the teeth scars on your thumbs from all the fish you caught when you called in sick and went fishing!

[Muad Dib]

ya love those red eyes

[SuskyDude]

used the gloves for a better hold on the fish. I always feel like they are slipping outa my hand when i hold them w/o gloves I dunno why. One of my quirks i guess

I hear ya. Smallies can be pain to lip with all the thrashing around they do. Smallies just dont quit!

P.S. - Nice looking stream in the background! I love the look of that steep bank in the last picture.......

[roadwarrior]

Ridiculous... :

[SuskyDude]

Ridiculous... :

Not really. You got a thrashing smallie with a slippery lip, add a treble hook or two and suddenly a glove doesn't seem like such a bad idea.

I'll tell you a few years back I caught a pretty good size walleye on a rattletrap. Had him by the gill plate and was workin the hook out when he started thrashing and..well long story short, I wish I had a glove on!

Thats a riverside surgery I won't soon forget....

[NinjaFishin]

The gloves thing is just personal preference imo.  Some people wont ever hardly use em and some people use em whenever available.  After a couple catfish stings and sharing treble hooks with bass I now prefer gloves  ;D

The river in the background does have VERY steep banks. The banks constantly wash out from year to year.  It gives the bass tons of cover in the trees that fall into the river but it doesnt give fishermen very many spots to fish from  

[SuskyDude]

The river in the background does have VERY steep banks. The banks constantly wash out from year to year. It gives the bass tons of cover in the trees that fall into the river but it doesnt give fishermen very many spots to fish from

Do you wade at all? Even just getting in knee deep can get you away from the bank and out of the way of the branches, etc. Opens up bunch of options on a small, tight stream like that.

[NinjaFishin]

wading is definitely something that would work well in this particular spot.  The current isnt too strong and there are lots of small rocks to stand on.  That day however I just found the place so I didnt really think about walking into it.  In the future (when it gets abit warmer) wading would probably be a good way to go.