Snake River Smallmouth Report

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The dog days of August don't seem to slow down the smallies in the Snake River. I had two friends come visit and we fished the Snake between Homedale and Swan Falls for 5 days this past week. We caught 403 smallmouth and SAW hundreds of nice channel cats. The majority of the smallies were caught on Zoom Flukes. The channel cats were thick in 2-3' of water, mainly in the riffles along the grass beds. This 19.25" smallmouth was the best one landed. It was caught in 12' of water using a drop shot rig with a leach type plastic bait. My Boykin Spaniel doesn't seem impressed with the fish.

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