Personal Best Smallie

Went out today for my first bass outing of the year in between work. I fished from 10 till about 1. I only ended up catching four fish, but those four fish sure made it a worth while trip. Without catching anything for the first hour or so I finally tied into a nice 14″. Next spot up the river produced a dandy 16″. And the spot up from that one yielded a 16″ too. I was throwing everything I had, but I could only get the fish to look at a spinner. I decided to fish one more spot before I called it a day and I’m sure glad I fished it. I had a topwater on and I casted it out. Twitched it once, twitched it twice and WHAM! A big one engulfed it. When all was said and done I had tied my personal best with an 18.5″. What a beaufiul fish! All fish were released to be caught again another day.

The water still felt a bit on the cold side as I decided to wet wade. Another week of hot weather should get the temps up to normal. I still saw a few beds around too.

F.S.

Nice fish!!—Which river were ya fishin.
Zumbro??

good going on the smallies, quess asking if you had any pics would be out of the question if you were wading??
Jack..

Usually I do carry a disposable camera with me while wet wading, but go figure…it got left in the garage.

F.S.

Did you get that big girl on the zum or the Miss. Inquireing minds want to know?

Not too many fishermen are going to tell where they catch their big fish, especially if it is caught in a location that could get fished out by 1 or 2 fishermen. It’s nice that people share the types of lures, colors, presentation, locations (wood, sand, rock), depth, etc. but as a general rule I don’t think it’s good to name the body of water.

Considering the fact that F.S. didn’t give the location the first time someone asked, I’m betting he won’t be sharing that information with us. There can be a lot of hard work involved with finding good rivers and lakes to fish and then to give that away on a public forum and possibly have all that hard work be ruined by a few people just isn’t a good idea. I have personally seen this happen because someone shared their location on a public bulletin board. There are plenty of people who just lurk around these fishing sites looking for this kind of information without ever sharing. It may feel you are talking to just the people who post here but that’s not the case.

Great fish F.S. I’m sure you earned that fish with years of work practicing your craft and lots of fruitless hours of exploration to find a few good spots like the one where you caught that beauty. The best chance of more people having the pleasure of catching that fish and others like it is to keep the location to yourself.