Spent the day at the river again today - we tend to fish there a lot. Switched it up a bit; we always see big carp swimming around, and lots of them. My son always asks if we can catch them, so today we brought along some worms and corn and set up in a popular carp hangout. Within just a few minutes, rod goes down, I grab it and the fish starts just scraming off line. Ends up way down the river so I tightened the drab a bit and fought the fish - until the line snapped. Tried again for quite a while but mostly just ended up feeding them worms and corn.
Anyway, despite being side-tracked for 2 or 3 hours with the carp we ended the day at 38 smallmouth, 15 rock bass, 1 sucker and a clam.
Smallies ranged in size from this whopper of a fish:
to this beautiful specimen:
Another great day! Gotta figure out a better way of catching those carp though. Sure was fun fighting that one before the line broke, but was incredibly boring waiting... especially knowing there were more smallmouth further down river!
Anyway, despite being side-tracked for 2 or 3 hours with the carp we ended the day at 38 smallmouth, 15 rock bass, 1 sucker and a clam.
Smallies ranged in size from this whopper of a fish:
to this beautiful specimen:
Another great day! Gotta figure out a better way of catching those carp though. Sure was fun fighting that one before the line broke, but was incredibly boring waiting... especially knowing there were more smallmouth further down river!
