smallmouth on the fly

Hi folks, Chased river and lake smallmouth with guests today.  Fished big water in the morning with heavy boulder and rock cover.  Giant pools laden with rocks and big back eddies.  Water temperature was 71 degrees at 5:30am.  Pretty comfortable out until sun go full over head.  Muggy day.  We fished the surface with a #8 chartruse foam slider fly.  Most our takes came in the slower water out of the main current after popping the fly and letting it sit.  Good surface takes.  We landed 6 river smallmouth and missed and lost a few more.  The largest fish was about 2lbs and put up a good tussle on the 6wt.  We also dead drifted a large stonefly nymph under an indicator in the heavier riffles and hooked fish with that method.  Nice morning.  This evening I took another client canoe fishing for smallmouth on an extremely clear body of water.  Water temperature was 73 degrees on the surface.  Dead calm water and still muggy outside.  We worked the shady shorelines. Saw a Hex flies around 8pm and a few smallmouth eating the big mayfly.  Not a major hatch.  Also saw some large #12 drowned ants in the surface film struggling.  Easy pickings for the smaller fish.  We cast a #8 frog cork popper off rocky points, shoreline drops. and any fallen timber.  The larger bass were holding  in the deeper sides of the drop offs.  We landed 7 smallmouth between 6" and 14".  Nice evening.  Going to do it all over again tomorrow.  Remember to clean your gear and keep the non-native species at home.  Have Fun, Willy