Went out on the Penobscot River to try to find some smallmouths and ended up with a new smallie PB! Not crazy huge but a PB for me and above average for the Penobscot from what I hear. And the river smallies are just fun. I just caught my first smallie this year and am just happy to be finally figuring the bronzebacks out a little.

This one measured 19” and weighed 3.9 lbs.

I was floating downstream and noticed a small inlet that I hadn’t seen on the way upstream. Motored over to it and this beauty hit a jig n craw just outside the inlet on my first cast! Made a great ending to my day of catching around 20 or so on the river. Got a few pics of some of the smaller ones on my thread if anyone’s interested.

Tight lines!

Very nice smallmouth! That's a big one around here! It's crazy to see guys on here catching 5 and 6 pound and bigger smallmouth and acting like it's nothing. Our state record isn't even 7 so a 3+lb fish is half the state record so I'm always excited when I get one like that!

Congrats on your new PB !!!!!!!!!!!!

Congrats, nice fish!

Hey thanks guys! Yeah that's pretty big for the penobscot I was pretty surprised. Can't wait to get back out and try to hook in to one even bigger!

Thanks again for the comments!