After dinner tonight I took the canoe out and caught 3 smallmouth bass (plus a perch). All of the bass were jumpers. It would have been 5 but two of them threw the hook in mid air. None of them big enough to keep. But still, that's my idea of a perfect way to watch a sunset :)
Fishing magazines, catalogs, and tournaments go all googly eyed for largemouth bass, but for my money there's no better fighting fish in fresh water than a smallmouth that jumps more than twice its length out of the water.
Fishing magazines, catalogs, and tournaments go all googly eyed for largemouth bass, but for my money there's no better fighting fish in fresh water than a smallmouth that jumps more than twice its length out of the water.