If you guys smell anything funny in your neck of the woods it's because the travelling BS gang has brought the bus (and most importantly the beer trailer) into WV. Stop on by the thread.

 

I got one heck of a surprise this morning. I decided to go do a little smallmouth fishing at Cotton Hill, below Hawk's Nest. I had my 6.5 ft light action rod and reel loaded with 6 pound test. I stopped at WalMart to get a few things and grabbed a Joe's Flies spinner, which is basically a trout lure but smallies like them too.

Guess what else likes this thing.......

22 inches and 7.5 pounds of walleye! When it first hit, I thought I had a monster smallmouth on. After about 5 minutes I had got it in close enough to see what it was and when I saw it wasn't a bass, I knew I was going to lose it. Six pound line is no match for walleye teeth.

I opened up the drag a little more and decided not to lean on it too much. It took almost 15 minutes of back and forth battle, letting it run for a bit then bring it back in.

I couldn't believe the size of this thing. The picture doesn't do it justice since there's nothing to compare it to but since I was alone, I couldn't take a pic of myself holding it. I also got a pic on my phone of it next to my foot and it's twice as long as my size 13 boot. If I can find my micro sd adapter I'll upload it as well, but here's the shot from my camera.

Zoom in and you can see the lure in his mouth. As soon as I got my camera out the line broke off, but I had him in a pool of water on the bank.

 

Very nice Kevin!

I'd like to sneak in another fishing trip this fall.

Hope you're having a good week WV.

 

Good morning WV.

 

Good morning everyone!

I hope you all have a great Sunday.

 

good evening WV.

 

Good morning everyone!

Have a great Saturday.

 

Got snow?

We have about 4" here.

 

A covering here is south central PA.

 

Good morning and welcome to the weekend...what's on the schedule?

 

Good morning WV.

I hope you all have a good day.