12-07-2004, 03:29 AM
hey neal-
i have fished smith mountain many many times when i used to live in VA while in the USAF. a good buddy of mine had a house (his folks) on the lake. we used to fish in his pops platform boat with a 200 hp on it. we'd cast net shad, then free line shad for monster stripers. got into many smallies as well. that sure is a beautiful lake. have not been there since 1990. too bad for me.
i used to float the james a lot for smallies as well. howardsville to bremo bluff. awesome river smallies.
my mom lives in NC, down in north topsail beach. i sure love NC and the fishing on the coast.
CO is nice, but it sure would be awesome to be wealthy and do nothing but go fish where the weather was good and the bite was on.
hope you can make it out. the fall was always the best for us.
tomcat
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i have fished smith mountain many many times when i used to live in VA while in the USAF. a good buddy of mine had a house (his folks) on the lake. we used to fish in his pops platform boat with a 200 hp on it. we'd cast net shad, then free line shad for monster stripers. got into many smallies as well. that sure is a beautiful lake. have not been there since 1990. too bad for me.
i used to float the james a lot for smallies as well. howardsville to bremo bluff. awesome river smallies.
my mom lives in NC, down in north topsail beach. i sure love NC and the fishing on the coast.
CO is nice, but it sure would be awesome to be wealthy and do nothing but go fish where the weather was good and the bite was on.
hope you can make it out. the fall was always the best for us.
tomcat
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