Twenty Inch Smallmouth.... Edit: Finally Did It!
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ryguyfi
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I saw the thread updated in the WW forum and literally said out loud "He did it!". Awesome Dave. Only after that thread did I realize that my smallie I caught a few years back was about a 1 in a million chance for me to get. I rarely fish for smallies, and to catch that one was just amazing.
Nice fish you got there. Looks like you'll have to do another replica mount now ;-)
Congrats once again.
Nice fish you got there. Looks like you'll have to do another replica mount now ;-)
Congrats once again.
Congrats Dave. Well deserved. Bennie should get an extra biscuit for finding that one for you. ;-) :lol: 😛int:
goodfortune
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Congratulations on catching that beautiful fish...I know that it's a goal you have had for quite awhile.
Be careful Bennie - she's almost as big as you are :-D
Be careful Bennie - she's almost as big as you are :-D
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Dang man that fish is as big as the dog looking at it! I have only caught a couple close to that size and one I bet would be 20.
Hope ya get a few like that next summer!
Hope ya get a few like that next summer!
albatross
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Congratulations Dave. Great accomplishment!
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I have been avidly fly fishing for smallmouth for close to ten years. I am in a good area for it though. The allegheny river, the clarion river, and redbank creek are all close to home for me. I have caught a handfull of 20 inchers but they don't come easy. My biggest to date is 22 inches i caught last june out of the allegheny. Most fly fisherman look at me like i'm crazy when i say i fly fish for smallmouth. I love my trout fishing and always will but there is something about smallmouth that just can't be matched.
The_Sasquatch
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Congrats Dave! This summer was the first time I really pursued the SMB on the fly. Nothing that big though!
I can't wait til summer. Long evening, trout in the spring creeks and cooler waters, and the SMB move up into my locally stocked "trout" stream. Being 5 minutes from a great SMB stream is awesome. I've missed so much by not chasing SMB.
I can't wait til summer. Long evening, trout in the spring creeks and cooler waters, and the SMB move up into my locally stocked "trout" stream. Being 5 minutes from a great SMB stream is awesome. I've missed so much by not chasing SMB.
Thanks for the kind words and encouragement fellas.
SMBs are indeed great fly rod game. As I've often said: "think outside the trout box."
Looking back on this particular catch, I'm not surprised that it came from the river it did and the time of year. Many of the largest bass I've caught in the last couple decades have come from this stretch of the J...and usually in the late fall or pre-spawn. I also probably sound like a broken record in pointing out the rarity of a fish this size and the many years it takes a fish to get this big (well over a decade). Take a look at the PFBC electrofishing surveys of our state's big rivers: 20+" SMBs are very rare.
SMBs are indeed great fly rod game. As I've often said: "think outside the trout box."
Looking back on this particular catch, I'm not surprised that it came from the river it did and the time of year. Many of the largest bass I've caught in the last couple decades have come from this stretch of the J...and usually in the late fall or pre-spawn. I also probably sound like a broken record in pointing out the rarity of a fish this size and the many years it takes a fish to get this big (well over a decade). Take a look at the PFBC electrofishing surveys of our state's big rivers: 20+" SMBs are very rare.
