Show me your bass

[Stonedfish]

This one took a craw pattern, although he was apparently already so stuffed they were crawling back out his throat!
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Minnesota by chance?
SF

 

[SeaRunner]

Here's the one in my avatar. This is the look he gave me after snapping the tip of my 5wt with a last second dive under the kayak.
Not sure I won that battle
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Looks angry.

 

[Northern]

Minnesota by chance?
SF

Nope - the big lake in the basin.
This one was MN, though

 

[Slimy Deck]

 

[Scudley Do Right]

 

[Smith]

Not a small or largemouth but first of the spring.

 

[Evan B]

 

[longputt]

 

[Billy]

I liked this one so much I caught her 2 years in a row...fly rod popper both times

 

[troutpocket]

@Billy do you still have your Grant County tourism promo picture from Park before the rotenone?

 

[Billy]

@Billy do you still have your Grant County tourism promo picture from Park before the rotenone?

6 pounds on a yellow bucktail popper with Matt P.

 

[troutpocket]

View attachment 34226 pounds on a yellow bucktail popper with Matt P.

I think you missed your chance to use that exposure to propel a campaign for mayor of Soap Lake

 

[longputt]

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We caught a female largemouth 4 years in a row...it had very distinctive scar on the gill plate...but not last year, hope it's still alive. The last time it was caught it weighed 6lb 14oz! Never on a fly rod though it was caught on a frog or POP-R every time.

 

[jeffj]

some more from the wayback machine

 

[MarshRat]

 

[rattlesnake]

Some beautiful fish in here. Nice to see some real good smallies!

 

[Evan B]

Just dug this one out of the archives

 

[Ryan Smart]

This isn't from the PNW, but a trip back home to Northern MN last summer. It was the best couple days of smallmouth fishing that I've ever experienced. This one missed the magical 20" mark by about 1/8'.

 

[Stonedfish]

This isn't from the PNW, but a trip back home to Northern MN last summer. It was the best couple days of smallmouth fishing that I've ever experienced. This one missed the magical 20" mark by about 1/8'.

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Nice!
I stopped into a fly shop in Duluth and chatted with the owner who at one time lived in Seattle.
He showed me some pics of the smallies they caught out if the upper Mississippi. I plan to do that float sometime when I’m back there.
SF

 

[rattlesnake]

This isn't from the PNW, but a trip back home to Northern MN last summer. It was the best couple days of smallmouth fishing that I've ever experienced. This one missed the magical 20" mark by about 1/8'.

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I like it. Seems like everybody (in general, not saying on here) rounds up on fish length and lots of talk about 20” smallmouth when in reality that’s not an easy number to hit on many waterways. Beautiful fish