Monster Smallie

[Greg Armstrong]

A new Idaho record, and an interesting article…

Dworshak Reservoir tops state record bass once again

Travis Wendt shows off a 23.5-inch smallmouth bass from Dworshak Reservoir, clinching the latest catch-and-release record for this species. Congratulations to Travis Wendt of Lewiston, Idaho on landing Idaho's latest state record fish. Travis hooked the massive 23.5-inch smallmouth bass while...

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[wanderingrichard]

Nice fat fishy, but, I wonder if it might glow in the dark ?

 

[Coach Potter]

Nice fat fishy, but, I wonder if it might glow in the dark ?

If that fish had come from the Columbia you could be right but Dworshak is nowhere near any nuclear facility

 

[DerekWhipple]

How has the world record not been broken by a OR/WA/ID smallie yet? Was the 11lber from Dale Hollow just a freak of nature?

 

[Coach Potter]

How has the world record not been broken by a OR/WA/ID smallie yet? Was the 11lber from Dale Hollow just a freak of nature?

If the record get's broken my money would be that it comes from one of the Great Lakes.

 

[Yard Sale]

Thats cool its a CnR record.

 

[Coach Potter]

Thats cool its a CnR record.

Really cool! That fish was likely pretty damn old.

 

[wanderingrichard]

If that fish had come from the Columbia you could be right but Dworshak is nowhere near any nuclear facility

Wait, I thought the navys submarine power plant school was near there ?..

Hmmmm , now located outside Charleston on the old Goose Creek facility.

Anyway, dvorshak is 288 miles, might be a nice weekend trip.

 

[Snopro]

Wait, I thought the navys submarine power plant school was near there ?..

Are you thinking of Lake Pend Oreille? It's North of Dworshak about 100 miles and has some ok sized rainbows.

 

[clarkman]

Nice piggie of a smalljaw

 

[wanderingrichard]

Are you thinking of Lake Pend Oreille? It's North of Dworshak about 100 miles and has some ok sized rainbows.

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HA!! Ummmm yeah could be.
Honest, didn't know smallmouth got that big up here.

 

[Greg Armstrong]

Thats cool its a CnR record.

Agreed.

 

[Coach Potter]

The Navy submarine testing facility is on Pend Oreille...it’s 30 minutes from my house.

 

[wanderingrichard]

The Navy submarine testing facility is on Pend Oreille...it’s 30 minutes from my house.

Yeah, my friend from Sand Point just told me the same thing

 

[NukeLDO]

The Navy submarine testing facility is on Pend Oreille...it’s 30 minutes from my house.

And no nuclear stuff there, they just test hydrodynamics of hull designs.

 

[Jim F.]

Nice fat fishy, but, I wonder if it might glow in the dark ?

That may have been me glowing in the dark . . .

 

[wanderingrichard]

That may have been me glowing in the dark . . .

Hey, at least it didn't come out of the Susquehana near Three Mile Island