I headed to the river tonight for a few hours of fishing. I got a little smallie on a lipless crank bait. Then I switched to a white spook jr. One the first cast I hooked in to this.

it was 19x12.5 and just under 4.50.

Nice looking fish y'got there.   I love smallies.

P.S.  you might wanna resize those pics

 NICE! Wish there were smallies closer to me ...

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Fixed the size. By the way for some reason in the same spot I has been giving me 3-4 4 lbers. When I hooked in to that one I thought it might have been a pike or a muskie the way it was striping line. I would rather chase small mouth over large mouths. I was shaking so bad after this one. It was close to being my pb. The pb was just a tad under 5 lbs. Skillet I want to head down to the Tenn river for some Smallie's some day over going after a 10 lb + large mouth.

That's a real dark fish. Congrats!

Congrats.

Nice fish Congrats! ;D

glen it wasn't that dark. It was lighter then that. I had to beach it because it had one trebble hook in it mouth and the rear one 3 inches away. I have come close to getting hooks in my hands liping bass. so due to it being dirty, bad lighting, and a camera phone it looks darker. but it was a typical colored small mouth. Heres a dark one. My buddy caught this in the same river system about 10 miles down stream.

So I hit the same spot last night and hooked in to a 2.5 and a 3.6. Sorry no pictures it was almost dark. They had more girth then this one did. They looked like footballs compared to the other nights one.

nice fish bud