10-31-2005, 02:25 PM
Well, with the onset of the cold weather and the first ice ups being 4 weeks off, I assume the best of the best smallmouth fishing is over for the year on jordanelle.
The funny thing is, in 2003 there were some real huge smallmouth being caught pretty regularly. In 2004 the big smallmouth went off like a rocket. You couldnt go a single weekend without hearing about someone getting a 5 or 6 lber.
Working at the tackle shop this year, and being on the web and in the bass federation I thought for sure I would hear about a ton of those 5 and 6 lbers now bigger. But this year seemed to have very little in the way of real big fish reports going around.
No doubt they are in there, and maybee they did get caught as much or even at a higher rate than last year and we just didnt hear about it. Maybee folks just kept it quiet.
Or, maybee this year was a real tough year up there.
What do you guys think? Did you hear about a ton of big ones and I just missed it or was there really a lack of the big ones being brought to the boat?
And by big ones I mean fish in a minimum of five pounds, but the real nice ones being the 6 & 7 lbers.
Sure there was a zillion 4 lbs caught this year, no doubt about it.
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The funny thing is, in 2003 there were some real huge smallmouth being caught pretty regularly. In 2004 the big smallmouth went off like a rocket. You couldnt go a single weekend without hearing about someone getting a 5 or 6 lber.
Working at the tackle shop this year, and being on the web and in the bass federation I thought for sure I would hear about a ton of those 5 and 6 lbers now bigger. But this year seemed to have very little in the way of real big fish reports going around.
No doubt they are in there, and maybee they did get caught as much or even at a higher rate than last year and we just didnt hear about it. Maybee folks just kept it quiet.
Or, maybee this year was a real tough year up there.
What do you guys think? Did you hear about a ton of big ones and I just missed it or was there really a lack of the big ones being brought to the boat?
And by big ones I mean fish in a minimum of five pounds, but the real nice ones being the 6 & 7 lbers.
Sure there was a zillion 4 lbs caught this year, no doubt about it.
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