smallmouth

[YoungBuckTX]

First ever smallmouth. A nice SCDUCKer told me where to try for one, in SC. Out of courtesy I cleaned up the picture before posting. I really didn't know what to fish with, and started out with a few clousers on my fly rod. Gave up that after 3 hours. Put a small crank bait on my ultra light (5lb) and caught this guy on the second cast. He put on a show, maybe four jumps. After a few minutes he got hung up on the bottom in some trash. I reached down under the water searching, and finally was able to lip him. Caught a few more after that, but smaller. This fish are damn fun to catch