For today’s mission I decided to do some wet wading for smallmouth bass.

I started the day throwing bigger articulated streamers to try and reach fish in deeper holes.

I mainly focused my cast on areas you see here, swift current with slack water next to it. One of my bites came right before this picture!

I also focused my cast on areas with very little moving water to try and catch some smallmouth on beds getting ready to spawn.

Don’t be the person who leaves old line and lures in the water, and if you see it pick it up.

After little success on the streamers, I decided to tie on this red and yellow wooly bugger to try and imitation crawdads I saw scurrying on the bottom.

This picture should be an awesome shot of my hat acting as a net for the smallmouth I caught, but the fish got out of the makeshift net, so here’s my wet hat instead.

Here is a great example of an eddy, a place where the current swings around and creates an almost whirlpool of bait for fish.

All the hard work from today paid off with this amazing smallmouth. This fish was caught out of an eddy on the red and yellow wooly bugger.

Even the little rock bass love this fly!

At the end of the day I finished with three fish; the highlight of the day was catching that pig (the big fish). This sunset is also really nice.