Hi Folks, Incredibly good day of river smallmouth bass fishing yesterday. I had a morning trip and and afternoon trip and between the two we landed 37 smallmouth bass. Warm day with the water temperatures well up into the high seventies by days end. Flows are at a seasonal low and now below the average for this time of the year. Tons of bait fish in the shallows along with crawfish and juvenile smallmouth. The afternoon fly fishing for smallmouth was as good as I have seen in sometime. We fished a stretch of river that is very big and the pools are spread out. Due to this factor and the low water, the fish were concentrated in each large primary pool. We found that a high percentage of smallmouth were holding on the up stream side of large rocks. We cast a #6 tungsten red cone head olive bunny bugger and as the light got low we worked #8 frog poppers. The takes on the popper were really aggressive. Big splashy boils on the fly! We hammered them on both flies. We caught 1 small bass and the rest of the 23 fish landed were all in the 1 3/4 lb range to almost 3 lbs. Healthy fat jumping smallmouth that looked like they had not see a hook all season. Off to do it all over again today. Remember to clean your gear and keep the non-native species at home. Have Fun, Willy
