Had a good time today up on Erie. My brother Jason, my buddy Chuck and I landed 40+ smallmouth for the day. Some nice ones as well. The first fish of the day. Here my buddy Chuck lands his first fish of the day. A few nice smallie. My best fish of the day. A tick under 5 pounds. A nice double with my brother. My brothers best fish of the day, 4.5 pounds.
I caught most of them on Super Tubes (A huge tube) in Mellon Pepper from Ohio Pro Lure. I also got some on Super Flukes (the 7 inch version) in White from Zoom.
Nice fishin! I have got to get a line in the water soon. Hopefully when we get back from vacation I can take the boy on a camping/fishing trip.
now thats a good day fishing those smallies are pound for pound tough!! Id rather get into them over the large mouth any day. great photos Scott!! Dude your so so close to becomming a Daddy!! now flip that hat over damit!!
Looks like a great time Scott! We caught about a dozen last week when we were pike fishing in the river. Big females. Right after the spawn in mid/late June we'll catch a ton of them on topwater. I love to twitch a jointed Rapala.
Dude, a visor? Are you serious Scott? The BowTech emblem helps but geez dude, I think you may loose your man card after that one! Nice fish, I love smallmouth fishing, I am more of a stream guy though, nothing tops using a 5'6" UL rod with 4lb test and casting a Manns Hardnose frog across a nice pool in a stream and having a 20" smallie smack it! On a sidenote, I havn't been to Erie in awhile, I am planning on hitting up the area for some steelhead this late fall.
Spend 8-10 hours on the lake with when it's hot with a hat on and then do the same with a visor on... You would pick the visor every time too :d I do a bit of stream / river fishing for smallies as well. Not near as much as when I was younger though. Although I use a 1 piece 6'-6" ultralight with 6 pound test for river / stream duty.
If you hit up any streams for smallies this year, trying picking up a pack of Manns Hardnose frogs (white). I found those things last year and landed so many bass of them, they are also good for northern pike.
Nice fish. I gotta try out Erie some time, even though I too am more of a stream/river smallie chaser.
Looks like a boatload of fun, and some monster smallies too. They don't get that big in the little streams around here. Hey, when am I invited?
Great pics, looks like some good action. Man card violation for the visor though (thats the first thing i noticed, after Buck Magnets avatar :d )
