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Title: Late season smallmouth
Post by: nbourque on Mar 24, 2009, 04:58 PM
I decided i'd hit up my favorite new smallie honey hole one last time this year. I ended up with 9 bass total. One hole I caught 7 fish out of, including one that was marked with my flasher and I managed to jig it up. That was a good fight.

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Title: Re: Late season smallmouth
Post by: Jim_C. on Mar 24, 2009, 05:05 PM
That darn, useless Lake X again ;D
Title: Re: Late season smallmouth
Post by: TinyTim on Mar 24, 2009, 05:07 PM
Nice fishy's! Only a week left, think I'm starting to get depressed...lol
Title: Re: Late season smallmouth
Post by: nbourque on Mar 24, 2009, 05:08 PM
That darn, useless Lake X again ;D

Yup, just green fish.  ;D
Title: Re: Late season smallmouth
Post by: PIKE FISHERMAN on Mar 24, 2009, 05:30 PM
nice fish ;D ;D like the fin illusion in the first picture
Title: Re: Late season smallmouth
Post by: icewoman on Mar 24, 2009, 05:33 PM
Good job, this are nice!
Title: Re: Late season smallmouth
Post by: speedyrower17 on Mar 24, 2009, 06:40 PM
NICE FISH!!
Title: Re: Late season smallmouth
Post by: jp on Mar 24, 2009, 06:47 PM
nice fish!

with action like that you should ditch the traps and jig, jig, jig. you have a flasher so you have all the tools you need. I bet you could have caught twice as many.  8)
Title: Re: Late season smallmouth
Post by: havejigwilltravel on Mar 24, 2009, 06:52 PM
Real nice fish.
Title: Re: Late season smallmouth
Post by: nbourque on Mar 24, 2009, 06:55 PM
nice fish!

with action like that you should ditch the traps and jig, jig, jig. you have a flasher so you have all the tools you need. I bet you could have caught twice as many.  8)

I actually did quite a bit of jigging but only managed to hook up twice, landing one fish. I drilled about 5 different holes other than my traps and I didnt mark any fish.
Title: Re: Late season smallmouth
Post by: jp on Mar 24, 2009, 07:11 PM
when jigging for smallies i drill like 20 extra holes and jig every one for a short period then drill 20 more in the area of the best ones from the first set.I  keep doing this untill i find a hot hole.
Title: Re: Late season smallmouth
Post by: MG39 on Mar 24, 2009, 07:13 PM
when jigging for smallies i drill like 20 extra holes and jig every one for a short period then drill 20 more in the area of the best ones from the first set.I  keep doing this untill i find a hot hole.

Know I know why you never get any weight on......... ;)
Title: Re: Late season smallmouth
Post by: jp on Mar 24, 2009, 07:18 PM
mg39 will vouch for the amount of effort i put into drilling holes.

I don't like to wait for the fish to find me so i go look for them.  ;D

check out the holes in the back ground. there were just as many in the other 3 directions. we fine tuned our location until we found a hot hole and got close to 20 bass from 1 hole.

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Title: Re: Late season smallmouth
Post by: nbourque on Mar 24, 2009, 07:39 PM
Makes sense as smallies are home bodies in the winter. I got 7 of 9 fish today from one hole and at one point the flasher was lit up like a christmas tree! It was pretty cool to see.
Title: Re: Late season smallmouth
Post by: guppy1980 on Mar 24, 2009, 08:00 PM
nice smallies i got some nice ones a few weeks a go in rockhaven pond
Title: Re: Late season smallmouth
Post by: No Time To_Fish on Mar 24, 2009, 08:12 PM
Guess I should have gone!
Title: Re: Late season smallmouth
Post by: ICEMAINEiac on Mar 24, 2009, 10:27 PM
nice looking fish wont be long till we get to get in the boat and hit the bass
Title: Re: Late season smallmouth
Post by: nbourque on Mar 25, 2009, 07:09 AM
Guess I should have gone!

Shoulda called out sick and came with me!  :D Oh well we'll get into some later today....
Title: Re: Late season smallmouth
Post by: nbourque on Mar 25, 2009, 07:10 AM
nice looking fish wont be long till we get to get in the boat and hit the bass

You got that right. In 3-4 weeks i'll be slaying them from shore at night. I cannot wait.
Title: Re: Late season smallmouth
Post by: Jim_C. on Mar 25, 2009, 09:20 AM
We'll see.....I seem to have misplaced my waypoints ;D

Shoulda called out sick and came with me!  :D Oh well we'll get into some later today....
Title: Re: Late season smallmouth
Post by: nbourque on Mar 25, 2009, 09:30 AM
We'll see.....I seem to have misplaced my waypoints ;D


haha, I doubt that, Jim.
Title: Re: Late season smallmouth
Post by: miket. on Mar 25, 2009, 09:32 AM
nice fish there.