Hog Wally

Jennifer told me it's because the river below state park becomes less suitable for smallmouth especially big smallmouth. Like the stclair area(according to Jen) is not suitable smallmouth habitat. Yes, I have that in writing. I find her information hard to believe. Everything she has told me from walleye to smallmouth goes against everything I have seen

I'm certified color blind so these hybrids look different through my eyes but i clearly see the spot pattern on a Smallie backdrop. I've only caught s handful and I removed them all from the river. As I do nearly every spot I catch. A little spotted bass makes the best fish taco 🌮 I've ever ate

That's amazing! On a TackleHD hidef craw no less. I'm heading back out

That's amazing! On a TackleHD hidef craw no less. I'm heading back out

Dnr. But instead of multiple mom and pop operations we inherited monster operations that without a doubt change miles of corridor. My thoughts on the gravel are just from my experience from my youth and I fished a lot of these dredge holes while they were digging no less. It's merely my opinion from what I seen then. All I see now is mostly shallow gravel runs. Am I right? Probably not 100%. It's my opinion only. I'm diving in my foxhole now.

Good deal. Call me.

Every few miles there used to be a dredge pulling gravel out creating up to 30' deep holes After big floods they would do it all over again. Minimal disturbance to the river. Got rid of millions of tons of loose fill gravel. Created man made winter holes. Win win win.

You out today?

Phil, just lock it out now before it goes sideways. Lol. Just kidding with you jim. Here's my fantasy Smallie team Closed season January to June. No size or creel limit on spots and open year round (including meanmouths). 2 fish limit on smallmouth from the beginning to the Mississippi. Length of those two fish doesn't mean anything to me Gigging............. hmmmmmm. I don't know other than rotate 10 mile stretches to be open per year and close all other stretches. Easier to police the open stretches. Massive fine on any and all smallmouth infractions. Otters, keep trapping the heck out of them. allow landowners to pull gravel from their property on the river

Look at the shape of this freakazoid fish

Did u go?

Might I add that I threw the exact craw and jighead for 4 hours. That's amazing for any soft plastic.

This is a legit 4 lber. Look in his mouth folks. All caught on GoPro too.

Wonder how this will affect today's bite?

I can say this, Al misses no bites He might break a big one off though. He quickly fishes a hole then methodically picks every inch of it apart. If you figure a bite out before he does, you dang sure better believe he will be changing lures to even the odds. Unlike me. I keep fishing and watch him catching. To me Al is a legend on the river period. He has a photographic memory of very specific structure. He understands that it's not about where you've caught big fish in the past. It's about the specific circumstances when it was caught, time of year, water temp, weather, etc. Al is aggressive and wants to catch every fish It's like he's fishing for a million dollars every time he casts. If you've never fished with this maniac man you wouldn't know

That is so sweet of you ! You goof ball. Get up here the waters great ! I just would hope that anyone I help isn't into eating smallmouth

Have you been up here by my house lately Pete ?

Smoke another one dude

At least the clear water should keep the accidents down. But it'll help the poachers

You guys? Who are you guys ? I'm me. All by myself My cause ??? I'm a Christian. That's my only cause in the whole world. I follow every rule and law I humanly can

Another day at the office, Water is clear as gin. Cooling off to 49 Little bit of leaf litter from storm floating.

I can only imagine what this all would all look like to a newcomer to the forum. How embarrassing. I got sucked in. I'm out. Need to hit the river. Actually, just seen a giant buck. Think I'll climb in a tree.

Finally! Bye.

Wrong and wrong. As usual. This thread was started to honestly show that bass get wrongfully gigged by very experienced giggers. All the time. It went sideways when you got nasty and derailed it. That's okay though. You have a very obvious and detailed agenda

Passion? Hate? It's hard to tell the difference in some people. Either way when the nasty shows up to play, I'm gonna bow out every time. Life is short. All these 1st world problems aren't worth anyone getting sideways over.