I want to start by giving a shout out to @Junk Fisherman. He was generous enough to narrow down Grand Traverse Bay to a manageable area as I was heading up to fish it for the first time. This morning was simply the best day I've had fishing for smallies.

 

I launched at 5:45 am and by 9:00 I had my PB and a 25 pound bag.

 

My 2nd cast produced a smallie just over 5 and 20 minutes later the PB went 6.52# and measured 22 1/4". The top 5 totalled 25.02 which is easily the best single day I've had. Not to mention, the craziest 3 hours of fishing I've experienced. 

 

The tube produced the biggest fish, but I caught some with the dropshot. 

 

That's a really memorable day, thanks for sharing.

Wow! What an awesome day!

Well done! 

Congrats @260Bass365!!  Well done!  That sounds like a perfect day.  And heck of an assist to @Junk Fisherman

 

scott

 Congrats on that sweet PB

and such a Great Bag of Brown bass.

Welcome to the 6 lb Club

A-Jay

Nice work and beautiful fish! What kind of depths were you fishing?

A-Jay beat me to it. Congrats on the new PB & welcome to the 6lb club. I fished with a very well known guide & experienced fisherman on Erie out of Buffalo & he echoed your comment that the bigger fish always come on dragging a tube but more frequent bites on the drop shot based on his experience. 

Wow congratulations on a heck of a day and a monster fish. 
 

Everything is pointing me to GTB lately and I haven’t had a chance to get there! Soon…

Holy brownie, Batman, you pow-bammed them! 

Awesome day!!! Congrats!!!

Nice work!

6 lb smallmouth makes me wanna pack up and head up north for the summer!  Congratulations!  That's a pig!

Very nice! Congratulations. Sounds like a very awesome day.

Great job!  Helluva day and congrats on the PB.

On 7/2/2025 at 9:24 AM, raydomz said:

Nice work and beautiful fish! What kind of depths were you fishing?

I was fishing 6' to 10'.