I went out to a local smallmouth fishery with my girlfriend a few Sunday's ago. We only managed 3 fish on the day, but they were good ones. She got a solid 3lb'er (her first fish caught EVER!) and I bagged two 2lb'ers. One of the 2's and the 3 came off of beds, but there weren't many beds to begin with so I figured they'd be moving up soon. With that in mind I decided to make another trip this week and planned on Tuesday as the day. What an amazing decision that was!

I took my sister Amy and my friend Brian out (Brian had never caught a smallie...) and we hit the water for 6:30am. By 9:30am we already had a dozen fish in the boat, with the first fish coming on the first cast of the day. Lucky for us the smallies had moved up onto a crap load of new beds, and we had them AAAAALL to ourselves on this day. We lost count of fish caught, but a good estimate, and with no exaggeration, would be that we boated 60+ fish on the day between the 3 of us. All but one was caught on a Spot Remover 1/8 Pro Model paired with a Zoom Shakey Head worm in Green Pumpkin. The one rogue fish was caught on a Rapala X-Rap.

Size ranged anywhere from 1/2lb up to 3 1/2lbs, with a majority of them in the 2 - 3 1/2lb range. Would have been nice to bag a few huge ones but I'm not going to complain about losing count of 3 1/2lb smallies!

I also bagged a 5 1/2lb largemouth on a Yum Buzzfrog about a week ago. What a year it's been so far!

Leah's first smallie (gotta teach her how to hold em now!)

One of my 2's from my trip with Leah

My trip with Brian and Amy

3 1/2 (just one of many!)

Amy with a 3 1/2

3lb'er

Brian with a red-eye smallie

Brian showing off a good 3+ smallie and Amy in the background with one to match! So many doubles caught, and even almost a triple!

Last but not least, my big fish this year, 5 1/2lbs even

Hope everyone else has been tearin em up lately!

PS. Don't know why those two show up sideways, my photobucket shows them being right-side up. Oh well...

Great post!

Excellant !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Great Fishing, I am so jealous of those smallies.

WTG Mike. Sounds like your tearing them up.

Holy shart!!  He lives!!!

What up man.  Glad to see you didn't get out of fishing...

Dang Mike, good to see you on here again.  Way to catch em and be sure to get on here and talk a bit more often

Great post man!!

I fell out of fishing for a little bit Wayne, just got busy with other stuff. But this past winter we spent a lot of time on the ice, freezing our scrawny MAsses off but catching loads of fish and it got me pumped on fishing again. Plus my girl got her first rod (a Fenwick, of course...) so we've been going out a lot together too. This year's been awesome so far though, between the 5+ chunker I caught on a random "I've got nothin better to do so why not go fishing for an hour?" kinda day to the smallie slayin' we put on yesterday, I'm sure glad I've gotten back into it! I'm even debating going back to that spot this weekend with the woman to see if I can put her on some more bronzebacks.

Hope things have been good with you my man!

PS. Dwight Hottle, that fish is absolutely monstrous. Thing looks like a tank!

Welcome back dude!!!

Nice fish, more photos of your sister please.

Great post and nice fish!

Nice fish Mike!