2025 Smallie Thread

[skiltonian]

First day of Spring, Lock 60 P-ville

 

[sixfootfenwick]

That's a good one!

 

[BruceC2C]

A FINE looking pig there, Sir.
What did he eat, for u?

 

[BruceC2C]

First day of Spring, Lock 60 P-villeView attachment 1641240751View attachment 1641240752

What did he eat for?

 

[Dave_W]

Very nice.

Only been out once for pre-spawn this year and was not dialed in.

 

[leonidjbjv]

Omg, that's amazing!

 

[JimKennedy]

Football!

 

[Ewanflyfish]

Delaware River, Lambertville

 

[3wt7X]

Delaware River, Lambertville
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Beautiful bronze back.

 

[td566]

Nice fish for that part of the river. The patterns on the upper part are gorgeous. Is that common in the Lambertville area? I don’t remember the smallies I used to catch in the Yardley area looking that unique.

 

[Ewanflyfish]

Nice fish for that part of the river. The patterns on the upper part are gorgeous. Is that common in the Lambertville area? I don’t remember the smallies I used to catch in the Yardley area looking that unique.

I’ve only been fishing this area for about a year, but this is definitely the prettiest one I’ve gotten.

 

[JimKennedy]

April 17, mouth of Penns Creek at the mighty Susquehanna.

 

[JeremyW]

- Day on the Rappahannock, nothing massive, but lots o' fun.

 

[3wt7X]

Took a quick trip to Antietam. Smallies were eating well. A lot of dinks and this chunky 15 incher.

 

[Terry Murphy]

Starting to get active in North Dakota . Reeky Leeches and Clouser Minnows have been the ticket.

 

[bdhoover77]

Has anyone done any wade fishing on the Susquehanna or Juniata this spring for smallmouth?

 

[skiltonian]

Just a couple cast in the Perk after trout fishing the Skippack.

 

[Andrwhite610]

Has anyone done any wade fishing on the Susquehanna or Juniata this spring for smallmouth?

From the flooding of my social media from local fisherman and Facebook groups I think it’s safe to say they are in the creeks spawning. I’m not sure what the ethics is here, with trout there is conversation about not fishing over spawning trout but with smallies it’s like it’s open season on the Susky.

 

[bdhoover77]

From the flooding of my social media from local fisherman and Facebook groups I think it’s safe to say they are in the creeks spawning. I’m not sure what the ethics is here, with trout there is conversation about not fishing over spawning trout but with smallies it’s like it’s open season on the Susky.

I don’t target smallmouth that are on spawning beds. If I see them, I won’t cast at them.

 

[Andrwhite610]

I don’t target smallmouth that are on spawning beds. If I see them, I won’t cast at them.

Didn’t mean that you were. Was just bringing up that it seems there is an abundance of anglers taking advantage of the opportunity of obvious spawning locations on the Susky system. I genuinely don’t understand why it’s more accepted to fish on spawning bass than spawning trout.