Father's Day Smallmouths on the Fly

[NCHillbilly]

I made the long journey of several hundred yards down to the river behind the house and flung a fly for an hour or two this morning. The river is still some high and a little off-color, but the fish were hitting some.






Didn't catch any whoppers, but I landed about 20 fun-sized smallies. Any size smallmouth is a hoot on a fly rod. usually the first thing they do when you set the hook is burrow to the bottom, then launch straight out of the water like a Polaris missle. The river fish are strong, and put up a great fight in the current.









This one looks like he barely escaped from something with a lot of big, sharp teeth-maybe an otter:



Also caught a few bonus redbreast and rock bass:






All in all, a pretty relaxing way to spend a couple hours.

 

[Paymaster]

Had to be fun!!!!!

 

[Cmp1]

Nice catches NCH,,,, beautiful pics also as usual,,,,

 

[gunnurse]

After gettin over hating you a little for this post, I realized that this trip had to be a load of fun. Happy Fathers’ Day.

 

[whitetailfreak]

Nice pics Hillbilly, thanks for sharing.

 

[Deer Fanatic]

Dang that looks awesome. Never fished where small mouth live. Get's me wantin to ease off to the pond and chunk the fly for some bluegill tho

 

[NCHillbilly]

After gettin over hating you a little for this post, I realized that this trip had to be a load of fun. Happy Fathers’ Day.

"Trip" is a stretch. I can about throw a rock into the river from the end of my driveway.

 

[gunnurse]

That’s what’s so sad about this for me. I need to move northeast.

 

[Para Bellum]

Great pics and beautiful fish as always!

 

[Buckman18]

Looks like a lot of fun! I live a couple hundred yards from the upper Chattahoochee between Helen and Lake Lanier. We have a very similar bass to a smallie called a shoal bass. They are a ton of fun and fight the same as a smallmouth, and are phenomenal table fare. We get some token trout, but mainly shoal bass, spots, and some stripers where I live.

 

[Bream Pole]

you live in paradise beautiful fish

 

[Caddisfly01]

Great report..Thanks for sharing the story, and pic's!!