Back in Missouri, first smallmouth fishing in more than 4 months...

[Johnsfolly]

2 hours ago, Jerry Rapp said:

a 10 hour day equals 600 minutes.  To catch 100 fish in a day that means you caught(cast, hook, reel in, un-hook, release) a fish on the average of every 6 minutes.  Factor in pee breaks, getting hung up, retying lures, food/drink breaks, and that is almost an impossible task.  If two guys are in the boat, then it is 12 minutes per fish(assuming each angler caught 50 each), which is still an incredible feat.  Kudos to anyone that can accomplish it.

That's not even accounting for hooking and landing fish smaller than 12 inches in length.

[Jerry Rapp]

4 minutes ago, Johnsfolly said:

That's not even accounting for hooking and landing fish smaller than 12 inches in length.

good point John.  I was thinking of just 100 fish.  Some of those smaller turds are much harder and time consuming to unhook than a larger ones.

[Devan S.]

46 minutes ago, Johnsfolly said:

As inconceivable @thewhitesnoop claims of catching 80+ and 100+ smallmouth over 12 or 15 inches in a day between him and his buddies, he offers @Seth a trip to show him their next level fishing techniques. The two meet early at the boat access of river X. @Seth has brought a couple of his rods and a full tackle bag for the trip. @thewhitesnoop says he won't  need any of that gear. They head upstream to a nondescript pool of the river and begin a slight drift. @thewhitesnoop reaches into a bag at his feet pulls out a stick of dynamite, lights it and tosses it into the water.. about 25 fish float to the surface and @thewhitesnoop nets those that appear to be 12 inches or larger. He measures those around 12 inch mark and all that appear to be greater than 18 inches. The largest fish was 18 12/16". @Seth is stunned and before he can react to their first catch @thewhitesnoop hands him a lit stick of dynamite and asks @Seth if he going to just hold it or fish!

He measured but he didn't take pictures for proof. 

We're right back to the same situation. Nobody believes him without photographic evidence but he doesn't want to be that guy that takes a picture of every fish he catches like he complains about on here. 

Heckuva situation.

[Johnsfolly]

4 hours ago, Jerry Rapp said:

a 10 hour day equals 600 minutes.  To catch 100 fish in a day that means you caught(cast, hook, reel in, un-hook, release) a fish on the average of every 6 minutes. 

I have only one documented day where I caught 104 fish. Now I catch and count about everything on my line and was not specifically targeting bass. I caught 24 bass that day (7 LMB and 17 SMB) and only 6 of those were >12 " in length or 25%. so to catch 80 keepers you might have to cull >100 to 150 smaller fish. Again I was not targeting bass only. Also I have no claims to being an expert bass fisherman. So it's possible, but you have a be in great water and have a great pattern(s) to routinely expect that kind of success.

[Seth]

3 hours ago, Johnsfolly said:

As inconceivable @thewhitesnoop claims of catching 80+ and 100+ smallmouth over 12 or 15 inches in a day between him and his buddies, he offers @Seth a trip to show him their next level fishing techniques. The two meet early at the boat access of river X. @Seth has brought a couple of his rods and a full tackle bag for the trip. @thewhitesnoop says he won't  need any of that gear. They head upstream to a nondescript pool of the river and begin a slight drift. @thewhitesnoop reaches into a bag at his feet pulls out a stick of dynamite, lights it and tosses it into the water.. about 25 fish float to the surface and @thewhitesnoop nets those that appear to be 12 inches or larger. He measures those around 12 inch mark and all that appear to be greater than 18 inches. The largest fish was 18 12/16". @Seth is stunned and before he can react to their first catch @thewhitesnoop hands him a lit stick of dynamite and asks @Seth if he going to just hold it or fish! 

"fixed this thread referring this to be satire"

The rods and tackle bag are just for looks. The tackle bag is just there to hide my trusty ol crank telephone!

I've fished some unpressured stretches of river on the upper Gasconade where catching smallies is easier than falling off of a log. Could two guys catch 100 fish in a float on that stretch? I think so, but you'd better make it a long float and be wacking on them pretty good the entire time. You'd have to boat a fish every 6 minutes for 10 hours straight. Counting breaks to eat, pee and crap and you'd have to catch them even faster . The quality of fishing is relative to the area you are fishing. Try fishing some of the waters that I regularly fish that get pressure and see how close you get to that 100 fish day. Aint happenin! I've seen several guys who fish those dumb unpressured bass show up in my areas and leave with their tail tucked between their legs after a day of fishing.

I've got documented proof that I boated 61 fish during the last CAM tournament that Lilley held and I was beating on them pretty good for most of the day. There was heavy generation so I did have to spend quite a bit of time running the boat up to restart my drift so deduct time for that. The tournament is 7 hours long so say 6 hours after you take away the time I spent driving the boat. I averaged about 6 fish an hour (360 / 61 = 5.9). Anybody that fishes for trout and smallies knows it's easier to catch a bunch of trout than it is to catch a bunch of bass.

[Johnsfolly]

16 minutes ago, Seth said:

Anybody that fishing for trout and smallies knows it's easier to catch a bunch of trout than it is to catch a bunch of bass.

Very true. I have been in the boat a couple of times during Jigfest when we boated over a 100. Also trout are typically stocked at a larger size. So most fish are likely to be over 12" on the White and in Taney.

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58 minutes ago, Seth said:

Anybody that fishing for trout and smallies knows it's easier to catch a bunch of trout than it is to catch a bunch of bass.

Exactly!!

[Seth]

1 hour ago, Johnsfolly said:

Very true. I have been in the boat a couple of times during Jigfest when we boated over a 100. Also trout are typically stocked at a larger size. So most fish are likely to be over 12" on the White and in Taney.

My overall average length during that CAM tourney was only 11.8" (720/61). We started out the day in the trophy area and caught several fish between 14-18", but not at the rate that I was happy with so I came back down river and focused on eddies that were chock full of 10" dinks. Would have been interesting to figure out the average size before I left the trophy area versus when I came below it.

I'd never purposely do that in anything besides the CAM tournament. I"m not sure I'd even do it again to be honest since it's just a fun charity tournament. That dinking them to death style of fishing gets old to me pretty quick.

[Mitch f]

I really don’t believe I ever documented how many fish I catch in a day. I’m really not interested at all about knowing.

[Gavin]

I thought that Todd (White Snoop) fished with minnows. Minnow guys can gut hook a 100 in a day really easy.