6.3 Smallmouth today

[Mitch f]

Caught in the Meramec by Jeff Shultz. This is the fish of a lifetime. Weighed in on tourney scales. They won with over 19 pounds.

[fishinwrench]

When it comes to big river smallies.....the Meramec gets the prize.   

Why is that, do you suppose?

I'd expect the Gasconade.  

[Mitch f]

4 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

When it comes to big river smallies.....the Meramec gets the prize.   

Why is that, do you suppose?

I'd expect the Gasconade.  

Gasconade has the longer skinnier fish, similar to the Current. I still think the Gasconade has the potential for a bigger fish.

[snagged in outlet 3]

I don’t know how to say it but the Meramec is more like LOZ and the gasconade more like table rock.  I think the meramec will produce bigger fish. JMO.  

[Seth]

The Meramec has been really showing out the past few years. It has been producing a lot better quslity largemouth than the gasconade as well during the summer tournaments.

Today must have just been a perfect storm because I think Corey said there were at least 5 smallies over 4# weighed in today. One weighed 5.25#. Could you imagine weighing a 5.25# smallie and still losing out on big fish by over a pound!

That 6.40  surely has to be one of the biggest smallmouth ever landed on an Ozark stream. No surprise who it was caught by either. I’m not sure if this is the heaviest limit caught by him either. Schuktz and McMillen weighed in around 20# in a summer evening tourney at Sand Ford years ago too.

[Mitch f]

4 minutes ago, Seth said:

No surprise who it was caught by either.

He’s the real deal

[Mitch f]

Another angle pic

[snagged in outlet 3]

That’s puttin the wood to em!!

[rps]

1 hour ago, Mitch f said:

Another angle pic

I would be proud of the smaller one he is holding.

[Seth]

48 minutes ago, rps said:

I would be proud of the smaller one he is holding.

That one was over 4 too.