David Jordan
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Ok, So I have my Last T of the year and I'm on big fish from the moment We start. Smallies in NH in the fall seem to alway be schooling and crashing baitfish on points til 45 min after sunrise the dissapear never to be found again.
I have 30 minutes to catch these fish before they take head who knows where. I'm using a Matzuo Spit and Spudder popper style bait w/ 10# test spinning, 6.5' med action IM^ rod. I hook the 1st fish on the second cast targeting and explosion. 17" in the boat. The next one is bigger and I fight to keep him down. He's peeling the drag and I loose him half way to the boat. I get 4 more hook ups after that and loose them all halfway to the boat. I'm not horsing these in but I've got the drag loose so they wont break me off. All good fish. The rest of the day is very slow and I mangage a good 17.5" largemouth in cabagge on a senko and a 13" on senko. Alot of dinks and pickrel.
Ho do I keep these smallmouths hooked up. I don't have nearly as much problem w/ largemouths on topwater or trebles or worm hooks. I would have placed second or 1st if I had caught any of the 5 Ilost
I have 30 minutes to catch these fish before they take head who knows where. I'm using a Matzuo Spit and Spudder popper style bait w/ 10# test spinning, 6.5' med action IM^ rod. I hook the 1st fish on the second cast targeting and explosion. 17" in the boat. The next one is bigger and I fight to keep him down. He's peeling the drag and I loose him half way to the boat. I get 4 more hook ups after that and loose them all halfway to the boat. I'm not horsing these in but I've got the drag loose so they wont break me off. All good fish. The rest of the day is very slow and I mangage a good 17.5" largemouth in cabagge on a senko and a 13" on senko. Alot of dinks and pickrel.
Ho do I keep these smallmouths hooked up. I don't have nearly as much problem w/ largemouths on topwater or trebles or worm hooks. I would have placed second or 1st if I had caught any of the 5 Ilost