YAYHOO!!!!!

the smallies are finally in pre-spawn on good ole lake washington. caught 3, missed 2 hits, and lost one in the fight. the fish went 12", 15", and 17.5". the conditions wern't the best out there today. the water temp dropped a couple degrees since yesturday, there was a tourny going on, and the wind was BAD (and i have a smallish boat). so i was very limited on what i could do, only fished 3 hours till the wind kicked me off. caught them in 15'-25' next to bridge pillars on a dropshot. all released.

nice job

Cool. That gets the year started off on a good note.

Congrats!

Great looking smallie! I love fishing around bridges.

Awesome color on that baby!  Nice work

Goodlookin fish! Congrats. Keep pluggin'! Got to be more where that one came from 8-)

Veeery nice smallie!

That is a great looking fish, I love the color it has. Nice job

Nice job. That's a beautiful fish!

that is a beatiful smallie, good job  

Great bass!  I love the markings on that fish.

Nice looking fish.  Whats the water temp over there? Its still high forties.. almost 50 here... Eastern Wa.

Nice Bass! KeepGettin em man!

Nice looking fish. Whats the water temp over there? Its still high forties.. almost 50 here... Eastern Wa.

it was 49-50. i went out on friday evening and it was 53, but the fishing was a lot worse. i only got 2 hits and one fish around 2lbs.

Good start for sure. I love fishing bridge piers for smallies. They seem to almost always hold some fish. Good job, you must have been holding your mouth right, lol.

this isn't a smallmouth but it came from the same lake.....and i didn't think it was worth starting a whole new thread. caught her on a spinnerbait in a shallow slough. water temp. was 55*. should be making beds pretty soon...

nice smallie and a very nice nice large too!

its crazy how different the colors on smallies get - even on neighboring/same lakes!  Cant get enough of that LM pic btw!