I have a very optimistic gut, but messing with a pencil point, my ring finger, and your brothers, in the photo of coarse, I get about 19" to 20". I still prefer my gut feeling. Nice fish no matter what.
That sounds good Rob, though I do want to get that JudeBug down, Funny, I am also a simple man who ties simple flies,but I am always reminded how simple I am
I haven't used it alot for smallmouths, but when I have light blue on the back and a white belly worked fine. The same works well for crappie and white bass. Crappie seem to like yellow too.Eric or Jon would be good ones to get smallie info from. A bit of flash is good too.