Nice smallie

[JUNGLE JIM 1]

I haven't  fished Big River since February because the bass have been biting pretty good in the little lakes around my house. I decided to give it a shot at a couple public accesses this morning before it got hot. I started throwing a whopper plopper before the sun got above the trees. First fish turned out to be a carp between 15-20 lbs. that hit the plopper, my first carp ever caught on topwater.A carp that size in current is too much, it wore me out but the knot held. Didn't get a picture because phone was in bag and had to follow it some distance downstream before I got it to the bank. Caught a few small bass, nothing picture worthy so I drove to the next access. Started off with the plopper and caught a small bass right off the bat. After about 5 minutes I made the perfect cast about a foot from the rock wall on the other side and on the first rip this smallie crushed it. Got two fantastic jumps out of it and then it stayed deep the rest of the way.Was really lucky because it was only hooked by one hook on the rear treble.It was somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 inches. Handle length on the rod is 15 inches long so it was close to 20, maybe a tad over or under. My biggest out of there in the last 10 years.  It swam off strong and maybe I or someone else will catch it. Fish this size deserve another chance. It keeps reading upload failed. I'll keep trying. I 've been trying but uploads keep failing. Sorry, try again later.

[MOPanfisher]

Jim, sounds like a nice smallie for sure. I have to resize my pics to 50% and save as medium quality in order to post them.

[Mitch f]

Nice fish Jim!

[Seth]

If you are still having troubles getting the image to upload, you can email it to seth_turner_04@hotmail.com and I will post it for you. I've had issues uploading images on my IOS devices since the last forum upgrade.

[Mitch f]

1 hour ago, Seth said:

If you are still having troubles getting the image to upload, you can email it to seth_turner_04@hotmail.com and I will post it for you. I've had issues uploading images on my IOS devices since the last forum upgrade.

And you forgot to mention to be sure to leave the location tag on the photo!😁

[JUNGLE JIM 1]

I just got a new phone so I probably don't have everything set up right. I will text pictures to Seth.

[Seth]

Congrats again on a great fish!

[JUNGLE JIM 1]

Bad thing about fishing by yourself is it's harder to take good pics. Thanks for posting these Seth.

[Mitch f]

7 hours ago, JUNGLE JIM 1 said:

Bad thing about fishing by yourself is it's harder to take good pics. Thanks for posting these Seth.

20" for sure...very nice fish Jim!

[Old plug]

I have that problem woth photos. The few pictures I do take I take whioe the fish is layling on a measuring board on the gunnel of my boat because fhey are going right back in the water. Only do it rarely. Then only oartvof a sort of report to a friend that fishes the same arm of the lake that I do.