My dad and I always make a couple trips to New River during March and today was our first trip of the year. What a beautiful day it was, finally some warm weather around here. The fishing wasn't too bad either. My dad beat me in numbers but I got him in size. He caught 8 smallmouth and one musky. I caught 5 smallmouth.

He caught his on a tube, I was throwing the same thing and couldn't get bit. I switched to a Sebile Koolie Minnow and caught one 22" on the second cast with it. After that I caught one 18" and a little later caught one 20". Of course I only had one jerkbait like that and of course I lost it. I put on a white X-Rap and caught a couple more, 14" and 15".

The 20" fish was fun. I had thrown the jerkbait in a good hole and jerked it all over it. I decided to just throw it out and reel it in to see if that would trigger a stike, I figured one had to be in there. The water was really clear and about five feet from me I saw it come up and engulf the bait, it was an awesome thing to see.

And you guys were fishing from the bank? Very nice! Your pops let you get the big one to keep your confidence up I'm sure.  

And you guys were fishing from the bank? Very nice! Your pops let you get the big one to keep your confidence up I'm sure.

Yep, we have a bass boat and I got a 14' john boat this winter but where we like to go, our boats wouldn't stand a chance. This is how the whole year went last year. He had the numbers but I had the size.

Then I retort my original comment, you're keeping your dads confidence up. It's what this great sport is about, family, fishing and fun, not necessarily in that order.  ;D

Nice fish and I believe that may be a tiger musky with those kinds of markings.  Either way nice fish!

Nice Catch, nothing like a father and son outing and top it off with a good catch.

Nice fish! That musky looks awesome too!

Congrats on the outing. I can't wait to take my 5yr old out.

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congrats! nice fish. smallies are a blast to catch.

Hey Thad what' the bait in your profile pic

That's a beauty!

8-)

Hey Thad what' the bait in your profile pic

That's a 4" BBZ that I painted.

Thad has a few works of art!

Looks like you had a good day with you old man.  As much fun as that big bass was, I would have loved to had a hold of that musky your dad caught.