I took my girlfriend up to NH last weekend for her birthday in order to do some hiking/fishing/relaxing, and I showed her my favorite little smallie lake. I've been getting her into fishing over the past few months, and she's definitely becoming addicted, which is nice

She had never caught a smallmouth before, and I assured her that she'd be 100% hooked once she caught a few.

We were just fishing from shore, wading around in some spots, throwing a variety of baits.

Her new PB largemouth (I showed her how to make the fish look bigger in the pic), below, was caught on a bone-white LC Pointer, and her biggest smallmouth of the weekend was caught on a t-rigged 3 inch brown senko.

One time, she set the hook into what she thought was a bigger fish, but it was a baby pickerel, and it flew out of the water, behind her, and almost hit me ;D

Enjoy the pics. I know I wouldn't mind being at that pond right about now...

Congrats to your GF.  It is much easier if the woman in your life is into fishing.

Kelley

Congrats, that LM looks like a giant

Nice fish...but what's going on with that first photo?

I see a fish, a jerkbait, AND a grub sticking out of it's mouth...and how is she possibly holding that bass?

She's using a gripper/scale, so it's not a grub, but part of the gripper (see second pic for a full view of the gripper/scale). I need to get her over her distaste of feeling the "sandpaper teeth". But for now, the gripper works fine :-)

That is AWESOME! Congrats to your girlfriend!  ;D

Any chance you'll reveal the general location? I haven't been to N.H. in about 30 years, but I used to visit the N. Conway area. My grandfather had property there and I used to love spending time with him canoeing in the rivers.

She's using a gripper/scale, so it's not a grub, but part of the gripper (see second pic for a full view of the gripper/scale). I need to get her over her distaste of feeling the "sandpaper teeth". But for now, the gripper works fine :-)

You're lucky to have a girl who wants to fish with you...gripper or not!