Mike Clifford Posted January 8, 2007 Report Share Posted January 8, 2007 For those that have photos of their BEST Smallies of the previous season- please share them here! If you remember what you were using to land them, feel free to add that to your post as well... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest rich mc Posted January 9, 2007 Report Share Posted January 9, 2007 i dont have any photos of my smallies and they wer'nt that big. but the story was that i had some time to kill near the Dupage river and it was high and moving. i fishedwith a few lures i happened to have in the car. most were a bust in the fast water until it put on the chatterbait. it was producing big time at shabbona and i didnt know how it would work with current. it didnt do anything retrieving from a downstream cast. i had to really crank it casting upstream as it was coming into shallow rocks. but thats where it worked best. a buzz bait didnt work but the chatterbait did as it nicked the rocks and pulled out smallies and lm bass. the high water now made me think of it. rich m Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Flyrodder Miller Posted January 9, 2007 Report Share Posted January 9, 2007 I didn't get as much flyfishing in as I'd have liked this year, but I did manage a nice 18" smallie on Rock Creek on 06/06/06 (hmmmm 666 ... I wonder if that's an omen of some kind?) using either a chartreuse and white clouser or a madonna. I can't remember which one because both of them were producing a lot of fish that day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Don R Posted January 9, 2007 Report Share Posted January 9, 2007 I was lucky enough to land at least a decent smallie each month from April to December of '06. (April) (May) (June) (July) (August) (Sept) (Oct) (Nov) (Dec) If memory serves me correctly April through August were on the Yum Crawbug, Sept was a Panther Martin in-line spinner, Oct and Nov hit the Torpedo top water and Dec was a live minnow. Don R Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve S. Posted January 9, 2007 Report Share Posted January 9, 2007 Don One interesting pattern to note is that it appears you catch bigger bass when you shave. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonn Graham Posted January 9, 2007 Report Share Posted January 9, 2007 Here is a 20 incher I caught on the 1st of September. 3 inch tube Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve S. Posted January 9, 2007 Report Share Posted January 9, 2007 Nice fish everyone. Here is a nice smallie I caught locally several times throughout the season: Successful presentations were a Skitterprop and Skitterpop topwater, Booyah 3/8 oz. white tandem spinnerbait, and Rapala Husky Jerk. I cannot recall if I ever caught her on a plastic, but maybe so. I tried not to target this fish too much. Here is a nice smallie from one of my favorite rivers, the Upper Wisconsin: This bass was taken on a Skitterprop as well. Topwaters are my presentation of choice, and will be again this season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Ferguson Posted January 10, 2007 Report Share Posted January 10, 2007 I caught 3 more the same size as this one (19 inches) over 2 days while fishing with Mike Mladenik in early October. I don't remember exactly what bait I was using for this particular fish, but odds are it was a big red-tail chub. I did get a few fish on a hula-grub and some more on a sinking soft plastic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamie Posted January 10, 2007 Report Share Posted January 10, 2007 A few ties this year. Just gup a couple. I'll post Mike's too because he's too busy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Buric Posted January 10, 2007 Report Share Posted January 10, 2007 This isn't my best but it's the best I have a picture of. June 2006 at Rowley's Bay in Wisconsin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WILLIAM C. Posted January 11, 2007 Report Share Posted January 11, 2007 Here's a few of my favorites caught from the Kankakee this year. Hulabug-spinnerbait-Gulp sinking minnow-Crawbug,pretty much all I used this year. Although I didn't have many days that I caught great numbers of smallies the overall size was better than past years. According to my log 40 bass of 16 inches or more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonn Graham Posted January 11, 2007 Report Share Posted January 11, 2007 William: Nice fish and better pics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim J Posted January 11, 2007 Report Share Posted January 11, 2007 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Don R Posted January 11, 2007 Report Share Posted January 11, 2007 Jim, that fish speaks for itself! Awesome colors on that bruiser! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick D. Posted January 15, 2007 Report Share Posted January 15, 2007 Here is an 18.25" smallie I bagged in June. I landed it on a Caroline rigged with a Kanami 5" Gold Shad skirted grub. It was taken on my home water, the Hocking River, while fishing from one of my outfitted WS Pungo 12 Classic kayaks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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