How did you get into small mouth fishing?

[fishingkidPA]

for me, river and creek smallies is how smallie fishing came about to me, and really the only way i could imagine fishin for them, in cool water streams. i leave the lakes for the LM. But if there were lakes w/ smallies around me i'd be there

oh yea one of my friends friend's wife got a 6 lb smallie out of here , its so unheard here of i didnt believe it untill i got proof.

[joshholmes]

well the reason you probably dont have good smallie lakes is because although streams are always cold lakes are affected by the weather. northern new york (where i live) is somewhat cooler than PA. if the lakes arent cold enough the fish can deal with the water if its deeper. if you use some maps you could easily find nice deep smallie lakes

[fishingkidPA]

well the reason you probably dont have good smallie lakes is because although streams are always cold lakes are affected by the weather. northern new york (where i live) is somewhat cooler than PA. if the lakes arent cold enough the fish can deal with the water if its deeper. if you use some maps you could easily find nice deep smallie lakes

yes i mean like erie and pymatuning, also moraine has them. but those are big lakes and i just couldnt see myself fishing lakes for smallies

[joshholmes]

why? you can fish from the shore its not hard

[fishingkidPA]

why? you can fish from the shore its not hard

id rather fish rivers/streams, its what i like to do.

[bucky]

I started catching them a few years back while fishing for LM on Ky lake. I don't just target them all the time but still fish areas that have produced good sm. I do go on sm trips to Dale Hollow and some river fishing. Once you catch one of those "ol brown fish", you are hooked. My largest is 5 lbs but still looking for something bigger.

[fishingkidPA]

I started catching them a few years back while fishing for LM on Ky lake. I don't just target them all the time but still fish areas that have produced good sm. I do go on sm trips to Dale Hollow and some river fishing. Once you catch one of those "ol brown fish", you are hooked. My largest is 5 lbs but still looking for something bigger.

wow 5 lbs, that must have fought like none other!

[flipnpitch 1]

Started tournament fishing on the Ohio River years ago and have been chasin em ever since.

[laus]

Was fishing for bucketmouths here in Maine when I was 14.....one day I hooked something on Thompson Lake and I thought I had a hawg!! Turned out it was a 2 1/2 lb smallie. I never looked back. Am headed out there tomorrow in my kayak, will freeze I disagree off, but the thought of one more smallie.....he!

[MrBadGuy]

I caught my first smallie in the Central Park in the turtel pond Last year and since this time i was infectedt and so i fly this Year back to the USA to catch some bass.

Lg Oliver

[wapsi smallmouth]

my first came this year while fishng a black buzzbait on a local river. this ill be my first year coming after them so we'll see

[lazeebum]

Reading an old book by jerry mckinnis where he told me how to fish a jig'n'pig for smallies and how he explained the huge fight they gave. went out the next day only 10 years old casting a storm swimbait and hooked a 20" smallie. ive been hooked ever since. ( by the way its nice to see another kid here, im 13)

Hmmmm, reading and fishing. That's pretty dang cool! It is nice to know there are youngsters that actually take the time to read or fish. Usually its video games.

[MALTESE FALCON]

I've been fishing Lake St. Clair since I was five years old...........nuff said.

Falcon

[J Francho]

I grew up on Port Bay, NY, which is a protected bay off Lake Ontario. If conditions permitted, we fished for small mouth in the "big lake." Otherwise, we fished for blue gill, sunnies, and bass in the bay.

Dad and me before one of our legendary 100+ fish days, in the 90s.

[Daniel My Brother]

The only smallmouth fishing I've done is wading rivers. Not that many years agos a buddy from work took me to a little creek nearby that I didn't even know existed and we had a blast. Since then my daughters and I have been exploring rivers and streams all over Southeast Missouri, especially in the heat of summer.

[senco lover]

Reading an old book by jerry mckinnis where he told me how to fish a jig'n'pig for smallies and how he explained the huge fight they gave. went out the next day only 10 years old casting a storm swimbait and hooked a 20" smallie. ive been hooked ever since. ( by the way its nice to see another kid here, im 13)

I am also 13 where are you from.

[retiredbosn]

the only bass available to me when I started fishing. I grew up on the Greenbrier and New Rivers in WV and largemouth are not native. When I discovered farm ponds and largemouth I started targeting them for a while, but I enjoy smallies the best. Now that I've moved to SC back to the green fish.

[dag623]

I moved to Michigan.

Hooked my first smallmouth roughly 7 years ago...been addicted ever since.

Similar story here... Moved to New Hampshire lol

[NBR]

We lived in southern Illinois with no smallies around. As a teenager we went to Ely, MN on vacation to a lake with northerns and walleyes. My dad had friends at nearby Eagle Nest lake and we went there for a day of fishing. I still remember a smallie that took a surface bait and threw it on the first jump. As the bait hit the water the same or another smallie grabbed the bait. I've been a fan ever since.

We did find a small local river that as best as I can remember had a small population of smallies. We waded for smallies with our fly rods and caught a few.

Where I live now we have both smallies and largemouth but there are more smallies and since I don't fish T's I don't target the LM. I might have caught one a year or so ago. I like the LM's but I love the brown fish.

[Wildbillb]

Grew up fishing the river a 1/4 mile from the house with my dad. Caught some mostly on live worms. Started doing some lawn work for one my dad's friends who fished tournaments. I went and bang I was hooked. GAME OVER!!!! All I did after that was fish for them. I even saved up my lunch money to buy more lures and magazines to educate myself.

[ww2farmer]

Catching one.

I don't pretend to favor them over LM, because often on my home lake fishing for one or the other is totaly different, and I am more comfortable LM fishing, I catch enough of them while targeting LM to satisfy me most of the time. But when I do decide to chase them, I usually dedicate a few days in the spring to them and some years big chunks of the fall, and have good days doing so, it's often the highlight of my season.

[aclark609]

Fishing Crooked Creek here in Northwest Arkansas. Seventeen inch smallmouth can be caught all day from this glorious creek.

[CrankinCarlos]

Caught my first one fishing for LMB. I did not even know what it was when i got it in, had to research it online. It felt bigger than it was and that is what i like about them.

[ROCbass]

My grandparents live on a lake that is primarily a smallmouth/walleye/northern pike lake. The first bass i ever caught was a smallmouth out of this lake when i was 7 years old and I've been hooked ever since.

[alyswim]

I live by Lake Winnipasaukee... 'Nuff said!