First smallmouth of the year!
 

I do a lot of fishing. Haven’t posted about it much here but my avatar kinda shows it.

I’m off to a good start! My normal smaller lakes are frozen so my buddy and I hit the upper James river to try to track down some winter time bass.

3.5lb smallmouth is pretty good fish for this area! Also caught a couple good 2-3lb largemouth and a 4.1lb large all out of the same spot!
Not bad for the first bass on a brand new reel! :mrgreen:

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Nice fish!

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Very Nice!!! released or lunch?

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Nice! Looks like some cold fun!

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Send a filet this way.... :thumbup:

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Great looking specimens !
Micropterus dolomieu.

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Nice fish!

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Thanks guys! They were released, so no filets! But they might end up as snacks for one of the 50+” Musky that someone caught up there a few weeks ago!

I’ve seen a few musky in the 40” range sitting in the shallows on the James and it’s quite intense seeing an almost 4 foot long brown shark swim past the boat a feet below the surface. 0.o

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Are those Musky good for anything? I didn't even know we had those around here.