I caught this 4.6 pound river smallie today

[curtisce]

Nice

[snagged in outlet 3]

6 minutes ago, curtisce said:

Nice

Nothing compared to your trip to SD...

[Johnsfolly]

4 hours ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

Like trout only good😂

The fat content of those 4+lb river smallies makes the flesh very sweet 😉. No point in eating any of 5 yr old and smaller smallies.

Seriously, a great story. Congrats again!

[MoCarp]

In my younger years, I came across a fellow beat up, his tackle busted up and a big stick protruding from a hole in his glass canoe…I helped him get sorted, jammed a rag in the hole in his canoe..I waded him to the take out point as he was in no shape to do anything but ride to the ER…guy was real quiet, so I asked him did he get ran over by a jet boat?..I kid you not, he looked at me and spit out a mouth full of fish scales…the told me two big ol boys in a John boat asked him if he did any good..he said all he did was lift his stringer of brown bass 2-5# just one short of his limit….they paddled over grabbed him, snatched away that stringer and started releasing the bass, reading him the riot act about keeping smallmouths, the last fish on the stringer was already dead…so they proceeded to force feed him that fish while thumping the hell out of him, trashing his gear, tossing him on the bank…..told him they would be watching for him…he kept spitting scales out and said good thing they didn’t see him gigging…. those winter fish were lots bigger😳😳😳

[fishinwrench]

1 hour ago, MoCarp said:

In my younger years, I came across a fellow beat up, his tackle busted up and a big stick protruding from a hole in his glass canoe…I helped him get sorted, jammed a rag in the hole in his canoe..I waded him to the take out point as he was in no shape to do anything but ride to the ER…guy was real quiet, so I asked him did he get ran over by a jet boat?..I kid you not, he looked at me and spit out a mouth full of fish scales…the told me two big ol boys in a John boat asked him if he did any good..he said all he did was lift his stringer of brown bass 2-5# just one short of his limit….they paddled over grabbed him, snatched away that stringer and started releasing the bass, reading him the riot act about keeping smallmouths, the last fish on the stringer was already dead…so they proceeded to force feed him that fish while thumping the hell out of him, trashing his gear, tossing him on the bank…..told him they would be watching for him…he kept spitting scales out and said good thing they didn’t see him gigging…. those winter fish were lots bigger😳😳😳

Karma 👍 

I hope for the same treatment to anyone that gigs smallies.    

[Gavin]

That’s a tall tale if I ever heard one.

[fishinwrench]

1 hour ago, Gavin said:

That’s a tall tale if I ever heard one.

So is the tale of Hunters laptop, and the tale of the man in the sky with the list of 10 things he does not want you to do..........But hey, if it keeps one idiot from picking up a pitchfork, it's worth letting it spread worldwide.   

[MoCarp]

6 hours ago, Gavin said:

That’s a tall tale if I ever heard one.

It’s gospel…..funny thing is I though he had a mouth full of chew…his face was just swollen and his mouth full of fish scales….I never saw that guy fishing after that

[Gavin]

Son! You might just have a future in politics! The suckers will eat it up!

 

 

[jdmidwest]

6 hours ago, Gavin said:

Son! You might just have a future in politics! The suckers will eat it up!

 

 

And all of the other rough fishes.