Roadwarrior and I ventured off to the TN river yesterday for a full day of fishing. Got on the water around 7:45 and fished until around 5 and landed a boatload of fish, probably 30+ with a mixture of everything you could think of: skip jack, crappie, strippers, yellow bass, cats, drum, buffalo, largemouth and SMALLMOUTH!!!!

The day got started hot early with the unwanted fish. RW outfished me for the entire day(to be expected), but I had my BEST DAY EVER for smallmouth. Lost a monster when it jumped, but at least we got to see it(5-6lb) early while RW was boating fish left and right. We drifted minnows on the rocks on both sides if the river. About half way through the day is when the MAGIC started to happen.

Right around 1 pm I land my new PB smallie at 5.0 lbs. The the very next drift, and very next fish I up it again to 6.4 lbs. MY NEW PB!!! And to top it off I landed both my LM and SM PB in the same year!! Between 1pm and 4:45 is when we landed the majority of our large fish, while also loosing some before we got them netted!

My 3 best smallies weighed went 15.4 lbs!

GREAT day and a HUGE thanks to RW for putting me on them. My back of the boat guide!

Jeff

Sun was going down when RW finally let me take a pic of his fish! LOL

RW's HUGE buffalo!!

Sounds like you guys had a lot of fun.

Congrats on the new PB! For the smallies and not RW's whistle trout!

Nice job guys!

Some real nice fish!

RW had a good mixed bag of whistled trout, ugly fish, trash, an whatever else you wanna call em! EASILY over 40lbs in 5 fish! LOL! But he still outfished me probably 8:1.

Jeff

Sounds like a great day!!

_{Any day you can catch a stripper is awesome. Just kidding sounds like one heck of a day.}

Sounds like a great day. Thanks for sharing.

sounds like an awesome trip!

Good deal indeed - sounds great!

Great fish, and pics. Congrats guys!

WTG Jeff. I knew there was a smallie pb in your future.

WOW, sounds like a great TRIP for you two!!! What a terrific smorgasboard of catches as well, WTG... You and RW are quite the TEAM!

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Well done guys. Well done.

Nice fish! Congrats on the new PB!

What the hell is that on Kent's head, LOL.

Nice smallies!

On 12/20/2011 at 10:44 AM, J Francho said:

What the hell is that on Kent's head, LOL. Nice smallies!

I bought a dozen, but it's too pretty to fish and I can't

keep it out of the rocks!

Always good to hear somebody slayin em this time of year! WTG!

Sounds like a great day on the water for sure.. Also way to go on the PB hope your next trip has one a little biger.

Kent I see you found a Bufflo LOL Could you use the TVA ramp ? How much weight were you having to use to ge down in the current? In that one picture you were not far from where I grew up. And still own some land within site of there.

pete

Sounds like a great trip, I need to get down to the dam! Congratulations on the new PB!

Congratulations on the beautiful smallies and a great day of fishing! Kent is really styling with that feather sticking out the side of his head.

Congratulations on the beautiful smallies and a great day of fishing! Kent is really styling with that feather sticking out the side of his head.

Its got mojo now Better believe he'll be slaying the buffalo now