I live in Northern Minnesota and around my town there are old mining pits that are filled in and have fish in them.  There is one that had very little fishing access but a LOT of monster sized fish.  It was raining today but I caught a break in between rain and caught this here football!  This is the fattest fish I'd ever seen, most likely pre spawn since its so cold.


I threw rapalas, senkos, spinnerbaits....notta.  I put on some daredevle spoons and they were chasing it like mad.   Im usually a walleye and northern fisherman but how big this was and the fight has me really wanting to catch more!

Oh, and its full of rocks, sand and iron ore because I landed it on shore without a net and as you can see behind me its all rocks and such.  This thing seemed to have lock jaw because it refused to open its mouth so I was like meh, pick 'er up!

Great smallie.

Nice fish for sure!

Nice!!! Thanks for the photo.

Great fish!

thanks all!  More to come from this basically untapped location for monsters!  Just gotta wait till it stops snowing...

A beauty!

Bet that was an amazing fight! Sometimes those bigger smallies have gripper pads that can cut the crap out of your thumb when you lip em'.

Nice fish!!

Great smallie, nice sweatshirt!

Congrats, Fat SOB!

That's a dandy!

Congrats on a real dandy of a smallmouth.

Great fish!