Well the smallmouth were biting today! Got to the lake around 0905 and at the landing it was a balmy 38 degrees not counting the 10-15 mph winds . Didn't think we would do that well especially when there is still chunks of ice floating around the lake .

We didn't catch anything for the first hour an a half until my friend caught a nice 3lbs 05oz. smallmouth on a Texas rigged rage craw. He kept throwing that with no more bites. I started out with a 6-9ft crankbait with no luck at all. Then I switched over to a Rapala gold suspending husky jerk-bait. About a dozen cast into the bait I was about to switch to something else when all of a sudden I notice a very nice looking bronze back following behind it. It never committed. I had a few more of these so I decided that they want that bait just not the presentation that I was using,(a little too fast).

So I said to my friend "I think I'm going to try a longer pause between pulls" and on the next cast I hooked into a nice smallmouth at 3lbs 09oz.

That was all she wrote, we started catching after that. We caught somewhere in the high teens as fare as numbers. Not one of them were under 3lbs in fact I do believe the smallest one was 3lbs 03oz. The largest ones were at 3lbs 13ozs. We didn't break four pounds today but our five fish smallmouth bag was a little over 18lbs.

The bonus was that we also caught four brown trout on the same lures that all measured 15 1/2", Guess what I'm having for dinner?

It was a great day! Here is the proof: Tight lines to all! 2011 is looking good! No duplicates all seperate catches.

sorry pic heavy

And now the bonus brown trout:

WOW! Im jealous!

Jeff

WOW! Im jealous!

Jeff

You shouldn't be! You live a great fishing state.

Thinks I'm going to eat one trout for breakfast today and one for dinner!

Nice fish. Great smallies. Would have been out also, but still waiting for trolling motor parts.

Two of my favorite fish in the world to catch. Wish I could catch both at the same spot like you.

Jeff

Great report and nicelooking fish!!!

Thanks for sharing.

Would have gone back out today but it is raining hard once again and I am fighting off a cold. i think that i will man up though and try a new lake tomorrow it is suppose to have big smallies.

Excellent man! Nice pics, and some sweet smallies (and brownies) there.

Thanks for all the nice comments.