Pre-Spawn Smallies

[Boatless in BTV]

The smallmouths are apparently already starting to stack up along the Colchester Causeway. I caught eight this evening in the cut, all between 15 and 19 inches, and missed four or five more. This one was the biggest:



There was also a school of salmon chasing bait around, and they came past me at least twice. The second time I managed to hook up twice, but both fish threw the hook on the first jump.

Still it was a fun night on the water.

[fishingmachine]

we fished the south end of the lake for crappies using 1/32 oz jigs and fathead minnows,we caught 20+ bass,4 or 5 of which were in the 5# class,(one really nice 5# smallie)all using these little jigs with fathead minnows and 4 or 6# test line,what a blast.It was easy to land these big fish on this ultralite tackle because of the lack of weeds and snags where we were finding these fish,they seemed to be on the warm rocks and rip rap.lotsa fun if you get the chance to go.frank

[muskytime]

Nice fish !!

Good to know they started biting, i was fishing salmon the last few weeks but switching for Bass soon !!!
Claude

[fishy1]

[fishy1]

i am targeting salmon and catching smallies early morning and late evening. most 17 to 20 inches.