River Smallmouth Revenge! 12-20 & 12-23

[David Goddard]

Well if you guys read my last post, you would know that I fished a stream for smallmouth with high, cold, muddy water and could only manage to snatch about a dozen largeheads. So on this last Thursday I headed to another body of high, moving cold, muddy, water in search of that elusive 20 inch brown bass. I had done some homework on google maps and gotten a tip from a local bait shot, so I started looking for clearer tributaries and finally found one after about a 12-15 mile run. I threw a 3.3 inch keitech in sexy shad color all day and justin threw a brown stick (i.e. ned rig). We put an absolute smack down on them. Justin caught 63 or 64 bass and I caught 41 I think. However, his average size was like 11 or 12 inches and mine was like 14 or 15. Also, I caught quite a few more fish 16"+ than he did. We had 5 that were 17 inches and over for out biggest 5 and the biggest one I caught was about 3 lbs. We doubled up 6 times with many more missed opportunities. By far one if the funnest days of fishing in my life.

Well knowing that this bite wouldn't last forever we got out again as soon as we could which happened to be the 23rd. Justin, myself, and his little brother Josh ended up catching around 60 on the exact same pattern with little swimbaits. The only difference was this time we used 2.8 keitechs because I had burned through all of my 3.3s the last day. Another amazing day of fishing. I caught one that was almost 3.5 lbs and almost 19 inches. Josh caught a nice 2 lb meanmouth and justin again won the numbers game with his brown stick. Big thank you to everyone who has supported the Mizzou bass team and given me advice on here. It is much appreciated. Merry Christmas!

[MOsmallies]

Absolutely awesome! You guys are some dam good fisherman!

Merry Christmas!

[patfish]

Well done gentlemen, well done.  

[Tom Ryan]

Great job!  Winter time can be awesome for fishing.  

[David Goddard]

47 minutes ago, MOsmallies said:

Absolutely awesome! You guys are some dam good fisherman!

Merry Christmas!

Thank you! That means a lot coming from an angler like yourself!

[evilcatfish]

Looks like a great time! December has been crazy for me, hopefully I'll be able to get out more in January

[dan hufferd]

Where was this ?

Awesome, thanks for sharing.

 

[dan hufferd]

I can't believe you weren't out Christmas shopping, like me, that's just wrong. 

[thewhitesnoop]

David- From what I see here, you don't really need any advice from this board. Just keep doing your thing and learn from every trip. And FOR GOODNESS SAKE DO NOT TELL ANYONE WHERE YOU ARE CATCHING FISH!!!

You will regret it if you do

[Hog Wally]

Love it !!!   Nice !!!