Well today ended up being a decent day for me fly fishing a small creek by my house. I ended up catching my two best fly rod smallies. This stream holds some decent 15-18inch smallmouth that I have caught with my spinning gear, but I have never seemed to have any luck with smallies on the fly until tonight.

I was fishing s streamer pattern I tied with no luck, but I kept throwing it because it was my goal to catch a smallmouth on something that I tied. While I was out on the river it started to rain for a bit and I noticed a decrease in water temp, and the fish becoming more active on the surface after the rain passed. I tied on a popper and with my first three cast pulled in these two guys.





They put up such an awesome fight and aerial display. it reminded me why I love fishing for these guys so much. I moved up the stream and seemed to run into and endless supply of rock bass and sunfish, but still have fun pulling them in.



I ended the trip catching one more smallmouth. This is probably the smallest that I have ever pulled in, but it was great to see how healthy it was. I must have seen tons of these little guys swimming around the whole afternoon, but he was the only one willing to take a go at the popper.



The place I usually gives up the biggest fish has for some reason started growing moss all over the top and around the banks and seems to not be holding many smallmouth anymore, but largemouth. These fish were not there in the numbers that they are in now a few years ago.

Anyway....it was a fun night for me and you can check out a quick little video of the smallmouth release here...
Smallmouth Release

i love smallmouth fishing. my dad and i pulled out a couple 3-4 lbers out of the upper allegheny river, that was a blast! btw my biggest smallie on the fly is about that size too. They fight so good on a 5 wt!