Well I got a call back from the hospital yesterday and found out that I don't have a stress fracture in my spine!!!!

So that gave me the OK to fish...

I was intending on fishing the upper James for smallmouth from a private ramp on the "rich section" that I got permission to use, but the guy was out of town so I couldn't go there. So I decided to just hit the Pamunkey, and it didn't turn out to bad.

Caught 9 in all, 6 keepers and 3 short fish. My 6 fish came on a green pumpkin ZOOM finesse worm on a dropshot rig and one of my homemade finesse jigs in watermelon/brown. My dad's 3 fish all came on a green pumpkin ZOOM trick worm on a shaky head. Here's a couple of the better fish...

First fish, hit the dropshot

My dad's nice one

Biggest of the day, hit my finesse jig

Last keeper, also on DS

They got a lot of spots in that river, don't they?

Very Nice fish, looks fun!

They got a lot of spots in that river, don't they?

Oh yeah, as soon as the water dips below 60 degs. it's like the flood gates open and the smallmouth and spots come down river.

They don't get very big though, most of the spots we catch are nonkeepers. On the other hand, I have seen smallmouth as big as 4lbs come from the Pamunk.

Nice. 8-)

Zoom worms are "ol' reliable" for me.

good fish man, wish i coulda gone :

Congrats on a good day out and the good news on the back.

Thanks guys, and I think I'm on to something with these finesse jigs I've been making. Since I made a small change in my design, I have caught the 2 biggest fish I've ever caught out of the Pamunkey on em.

Good job guys! 8-)