On 3 occasions fishing the Upper Potomac, I have boated 2 smallies on a single cast…once on topwater, and twice on shallow jerkbait.  I shared with a number of buddies a pic of the two I caught last year on topwater and like me, they were pretty amazed.  But it has happened twice this year.  I think I was more amazed the second time, mainly because it happened again.  But after the third time…I started wondering just how often this happens.  Has anyone else had the experience of catching 2 smallies on a single cast? 

 

 

They are schooling fish and they are aggressive and want to take the food other fish have, so when they try and the bait they have in their mouth has multiple hooks there's a good possibility of a double.

I've hooked SMB in ultra clear water and have watched as other SMB tried to steal the bait out of the hooked fishes mouth while I reel it in.

LM also.

I’ve done it twice in the same day before. When you are fortunate enough to find an active school of bass, in my case it’s always been smallmouth, it happens. 

Weirdest one for me was SMB with about a 20 " pike sharing the trebles.

Smallmouth and/or Rock Bass + Rapala Floating Minnow = double hook-ups.  ?

Done it a few times, even once with a smallmouth and a largemouth. Last week I had two smallmouth on a Zara Spook, of course the big guy came off at the boat ( about 4lbs), and the 2lber stayed hooked. 

I have seen it once with smallmouth. It was a pair of 13 inchers on a crank bait.

 

Although I have not personally seen it, I have heard of large pike or muskie t-boning a smaller fish like a bass, pike, or walleye and not letting go. So in that case you catch a smaller targeted species along with a larger one.

Had it happen twice last year with LMB, once on a jerkbait and once on a crankbait. I could easily see it happening more frequently with SMB though.

 

 

Never 2 smallmouth, but a smallmouth and a white bass, smallmouth and largemouth, smallmouth and spotted bass have all happened to me. Also had several white bass doubles, a green sunfish/largemouth double, and a bunch of largemouth doubles.