Biggest Smallmouth

[jdmidwest]

I thought there were trout in Bryant Creek

[Al Agnew]

1 hour ago, jdmidwest said:

I thought there were trout in Bryant Creek

Nope, other than a few escapees from Rockbridge.  

I haven't fished Bryant in many years, but I've fished the North Fork in recent years and caught several smallmouth of 18-19 inches.  No reason there wouldn't be fish that size in Bryant as well.

[ColdWaterFshr]

There are some piggy smallmouth even in the trout water of NF, but also above.  

Bryant Creek, if I lived 2 hours closer . . . would warrant much closer inspection.  I've only fished it a couple times.  To call it a "Creek" is stretching the definition.  Its big.  43 miles of it too.

The size of that whole watershed (of both Bryant and the NFOW) could keep a motivated full-time fisherman busy for quite a while.

[Al Agnew]

On 4/27/2022 at 8:55 PM, ColdWaterFshr said:

There are some piggy smallmouth even in the trout water of NF, but also above.  

Bryant Creek, if I lived 2 hours closer . . . would warrant much closer inspection.  I've only fished it a couple times.  To call it a "Creek" is stretching the definition.  Its big.  43 miles of it too.

The size of that whole watershed (of both Bryant and the NFOW) could keep a motivated full-time fisherman busy for quite a while.

I floated the trout section of the North Fork a few summers ago, a couple years after the huge flood that went through.  I was with several other guys who were fly fishing for trout, but I wanted to see if I could catch any smallmouth.  They must not have been biting that day...I caught a few little largemouth, but that was it.  The other guys didn't catch much either, though.

[jdmidwest]

I still want to try it, no matter how everyone seems to put it down.  Looks like a good fishery.

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