here is a pic from the other week. had one of my buddies up from texas and forgot my camera. 22 in long and who knows how big around lol. 6.4 on scales biggest smallie of my life...... still swimming
Modified by flippindrew at 10:30 AM 1/1/2008
here is a pic from the other week. had one of my buddies up from texas and forgot my camera. 22 in long and who knows how big around lol. 6.4 on scales biggest smallie of my life...... still swimming
Modified by flippindrew at 10:30 AM 1/1/2008
NICE fish Drew, I haven't had a 6 plus in almost 2 years now. Great catch!!
JEFF SCHMIDT - NORTH PORT, FL
'13 RANGER Z518 COMANCHE / '13 MERCURY PRO XS 200
Nice fish man! it makes me wonder how big the one I caught really is? They look about the same in the pics
2005 RANGER 185DVX 175 OPTIMAX
i know what ya mean jeff. its weird how many 5's you see caught at dale and c-land and the very few over 5's. but, to tell you the truth, im begginning to think that once smallies reach that size, they totally leave the banks and spend the remainder of the time chasing shad with stripers etc. i guess maybe thats why you see the striper fisherman catch the real monster smallies often times. then again most of the smallies ive seen over 21 are really skinny and maybe thats when their life cycle starts going downwards? either way, its weird to see so many 5's and so few 6's. anyone know how old a 21 or 22in smallie would be?
A smallmouth that length would be somewhere around 7-8 years old.
Nice fish anyhow.
"There is nothing more free, than one who has nothing to lose"
That is a nice one, if this fish does not get taken out of the lake, just by the build of the fish it will be a trophie smallmouth someday.
Greg Paschal - Louisville, KY
Boatless
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good fish young Jedi... I think your right about the big ones going rogue or joining bigger class of fish to feed. My question is since there are no stripers in the Hollow do they get together and feed or do they work with the birds or something esle?
Seen something on Sunday that really made me curious about that. There was a single ld oon frantically diving shallow chasing something arounfor about 2-5 minutes in the middle/mouth of a small main lake creek. Finally the loon stops and has a huge 6-10" shad in its mouth. We thougth it was a bass at first until we motored close enought to look. More than likely there were fish underneath those shad and that loon was on top and the smallies or whatever other fish big enough to eat bait that size were on the bottom working together. I know it happens but I think there is more to it than we know.
Kudos to you...that's a fish of a lifetime!!!!!
Just can't leave well enough alone!!
98 Stratos 273 w/ 150 Faststrike
Nice fish Drew. Remind me to get your autograph next time i see you.
Now those are some big ol' football fish!
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That one heck of a fish. 
