Got out saterday night after a few hours of whining that it was "perfict" day to fish. I only made it out for 2 hours but its better then nothing. Started off slow and I thought maybe I was wrong about it being "perfict" so I said one more cast but I'm gonna let it sit a little longer. Bombed my jig out past the current let it soak for about 20 sec started to drag and BAM! fish on I caught 10 fish in 10 casts out of the same pocket I was working the whole time just to fast. Nothing to big but here's some pics from spot A. Ok maybe not tinypic is being dumb and won't let me upload anything.

After catching 10 outa that hole I went ontop of the bridge and caught a few more but dinks and I mean dinks like 6inchers I have no clue how they got the jig in there mouth. It was still cool they were going nuts having a feeding frenzy u could look down and the waters gin clear and see bronze gold tiger flashes as they were feeding on what ever was down there. The only problem was I couldent get em to bite the current was very strong and I was having a hard time timing my jig to wash into areas because if I pitched to where they were feeding it just got swept over top of them and behind them.

From that spot I went up to the mouth of the river wich is a power plant with 3 outlet pipes and same thing looking at the pipes there must of been a 100 crappie and smallmouth swiming in the pipe just frenzing over food washing down it was nuts. So I pitched my jig into the dead space between pipes and befor it hit bottom I felt a hard thump and fish on biggest of the day. That was the only one I landed there I lost a few and ran out of trailers because they kept biting the claws of my rage I'm not happy bout that lol.

Then on the walk out the sun was gone just enough light to see my way out and see stuff on the bank of the lake and I see what looks like a ferret. Its all black and just sneaking along till it seen me sneaking close to him. It was a all black mink 2nd one I've seen this year he was a cute little bugger stoped and stared at me for like a minute as I stared back then he scurried off and I did to because the skeeters were having a all u can eat buffet on my ankles.

All in all it was a blast I love smallies even if they are dinks and that mink made my night almost more then the smallies.

Got tiny pic to work here's some pics like I said no biggens but still a bass

Congrats!

Good stuff Clayton! I've not had the opportunity to fish those types of waters for Smallmouth... smaller rivers with the current rolling over rocks etc. It looks both challenging and FUN! WTG and glad you had a great time

Big O

www.ragetail.com

Good stuff Clayton! I've not had the opportunity to fish those types of waters for Smallmouth... smaller rivers with the current rolling over rocks etc. It looks both challenging and FUN! WTG and glad you had a great time

Big O

www.ragetail.com

That's all we have here it seems. All the guys at work fish the niagara river I'm dieing to iv never fished erie or the niagara I was always intimidated by the current but now I want to try now that iv been fishing the dams close to home. Iv lived within walking distance of the oak my whole life and never fished it till this summer because of the current. Iv been missing out big time I got a walleye out of there last week as well.

Yeah man that seems like a real nice environment to fish for smallies in! Just caught my first river smallies this past week myself, I enjoyed the difference in setting and presentation - the current makes it fun for sure. Thanks for sharing!