Small Creek Smallmouth

[Adam Grace]

Thanks to high gas prices and time limitations I have been fishing some local streams and I've been having a blast. I fished for about 2 hours today and I crushed some smallmouth with my 4wt. I caught a much higher percentage of large smallmouth today, large being anywhere from 7-8" or larger.......... especially since there are a ton of small 3"-6" smallies out there. Thanks to Hogan Brown's advice and teachings I have honed down the techniques need to catch these spooky little fish.

Here's a few sample pics of average smallies:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v238/flyguyag/fishing/IMGP2420.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v238/flyguyag/fishing/IMGP0266.jpg

Now here's a few pics of some of the "big" smallies from today:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v238/flyguyag/fishing/IMGP5538.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v238/flyguyag/fishing/IMGP5549.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v238/flyguyag/fishing/IMGP5542.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v238/flyguyag/fishing/IMGP5543.jpg

The last one was around 12" and a few others were over 10"which made today very exciting for me.

I found myself enjoying the feisty-ness of smallies today and thinking about how IMHO trout pale in comparison as far as the fight is concerned, heck I even had 3 smallies shoot right out of the water today as soon as I hooked up. I also was enjoying the excitement that the initial excitement of hooking up with a fish, that rush or exhilaration is addictive!

If you guys have any smallies waters near by you should give them a try because they fight harder than trout and you don't have to drive far to fish them.

[Garrett S]

nice smallies :)

[Scott V]

That right there is my absolute favorite fishing to do, smallies in a creek. I have done it twice and can not wait to d oit some more.

[dtp916]

Nice Adam! I was out swimming yesterday and saw some nice ones! Makes me wish I brought my 3wt along :D