Nailer Posted September 16, 2008 Posted September 16, 2008 (edited) I took the day off and went with my retired friend to the Muskegon River. We fish back to the basics (hook line and sinker). A couple of split shot a few feet in front of a single hook, tipped with a minnow and drifted or cast over the deep weeds. The smallies where loving it. We lost count how many but, I'm sure it was more than 20. We also picked up 6 or 7 pike. All the fish went back. Here's two from a double I had. Edited November 13, 2009 by Nailer re-add pic
salmonquest Posted September 17, 2008 Posted September 17, 2008 simple, fun I'd say easy but is it ever? and if the line breaks your out what abuck fifty. Looks like a great day.
GLF Posted September 17, 2008 Posted September 17, 2008 Nice looking smallmouth Ken! Have you ever ate smallmouth? They are very tasty!
Nailer Posted September 18, 2008 Author Posted September 18, 2008 Nice looking smallmouth Ken! Have you ever ate smallmouth? They are very tasty!Yes, back when I was single and food was in short supply. Unfortunately for me most of my family doesn't care for fish. %90 of the smallies we got where of keeper size.
Alessandro Posted May 16, 2009 Posted May 16, 2009 Can´t see the pics?My personal experience with black bass is very limited. I got my first ones last year in Portugal (they tried to introduce them here in Sweden but too cold), fished in the Santa Clara and Alqueva dams.
Alessandro Posted May 16, 2009 Posted May 16, 2009 Congrats, Nail, I couldn´t tell small or largemouth apart, different colors fromthe largemouths (much smaller) I caught, otherwise no way for me to tell the difference.
GLF Posted May 16, 2009 Posted May 16, 2009 You can not always tell the difference by color.A sure way to tell the difference between the bass species, is by looking at their bottom jaw. On a largemouth, the bottom jaw extends beyond the eye. On a smallmouth, the bottom jaw does not extend beyond eye.
Alessandro Posted May 16, 2009 Posted May 16, 2009 It´s like telling a brown trout and atlantic salmon apart, not always easy, obviously you don´t catch +40 lbs brown trout but otherwise it the head, jaw and tail that you can see the difference.BTW my "secret" basslure is the Yo-zuri Slavko oh bug, bought it in a Portugese shop and fished with it only the last day. It´s a plastic copy of an old wooden lure from the US during 1940ies, have a few that swear buy it as the best lure ever for smaller fish, but impossible to get hold on itseems (or at least for me) since the molds been destroyed by Yo-zuri. Good for rainbow trout as well, but I had no success so far, I won´t fishfor european perch in waters with northern pike with mine since it got affection value, but it could certainly appeal to EP as well....
awhitaker Posted November 13, 2009 Posted November 13, 2009 I love catching smallies. I usually catch a few on the inland lakes around me in central Indiana. I think they're much more beautiful than largemouth although I'm not one to complain catching either.
GLF Posted November 13, 2009 Posted November 13, 2009 I love catching smallies. I usually catch a few on the inland lakes around me in central Indiana. I think they're much more beautiful than largemouth although I'm not one to complain catching either.I use to fish bass tournaments on Wawasee Lake. Have you ever fished it?
Adam Bomb Posted November 13, 2009 Posted November 13, 2009 I love smallies. I always said id trade 10 largemouths for one stubborn smallie. Damn theyre fun to catch!
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