08-23-2014, 06:49 PM
[#0000FF]Congrats on finding a couple of "above average" smallies. Sad though. In the days when Jordanelle was still a young and fertile reservoir...with lots of chubs and perch for forage...those fish would have been small. In those days we could only keep fish under 12 inches...and there were days when I did not catch any small enough to keep.
Used to have many days of 20 - 30 smallmouth with the smallest being about 12 inches...the average about 15 - 16...and several 18 -20 inchers. And that was catching them mostly by accident, while fishing for the abundant perch up to 13 inches.
Note the small jigs in the mouths of some of the bass pics below.
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Used to have many days of 20 - 30 smallmouth with the smallest being about 12 inches...the average about 15 - 16...and several 18 -20 inchers. And that was catching them mostly by accident, while fishing for the abundant perch up to 13 inches.
Note the small jigs in the mouths of some of the bass pics below.
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