braved the summer heat to try for deep water SM. Ned rig in 25ft of water did OK. Nothing big but a lot of fun.

Here's one of them

Nice. I loooove setting the hook on a fish 25 ft down, always makes me think it’s a monster when they bite down there 

12 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

Nice. I loooove setting the hook on a fish 25 ft down, always makes me think it’s a monster when they bite down there 

They seem to fight above their weight class when hooked at depth. And when they barrel out of the water and tail dance it's so cool.

Here’s one I set the hook on drop-shotting in 22 feet of water.  Not sayin’ it’s not a nice fish, but when I set the hook I thought it was twice this size.  Deep water hook sets are fun!