11-17-2010, 10:00 AM
Todd Berman is my kind of Dad. He bought his son, Jacob, a fishing trip for his 12th Birthday. Jacob brought his friend, Ethan, along. They picked a good day (Saturday) to celebrate.<br /><br />The fish weren&#39;t on fire.... but they were consistent, and they were QUALITY.<br /><br />It was really odd... a week ago Saturday we tagged lots of stripers. Today the stripers were no where to be seen. No matter however because the smallmouth took their place. Everybody got a piece of the action today, although most of the time when Todd hooked a fish he would hand it off to one of the boys.<br /><br />We had two smallmouth well over the 4 lb. mark today ... and two or three more that were pushing it. Of course we had another assortment of fish ... just about everything is always ready to eat a big shiner. And we drifted for some cats that were pretty cooperative today.<br /><br />BTW, there are two pixtures with Ethan holding a big smallmouth with Jacob holding a channel cat. It is two different smallmouth... both times Jacob &quot;doubled&quot; with a catfish. All in all it was a beautiful morning... and some beautiful fish!<br />