So I am currently in Algonquin Park. For some reason I have a cell signal. My buddy is out fishing and I am cold, so not fishing.
Yesterday I hooked into my best fish ever. Just threw out a Mepps at the bottom of some rapids and I felt a tug. Not a big tug mind you. I didn’t do a great job of setting the hook. I think that he took the lure and started swimming right at me.
Anyway it was barely fighting so my assumption was that I was a pike. Then it swam right by me but I didn’t get a good look at it. It looked long and thin so again I assumed a 3 lb pike. Then it decided to go for a run and nearly ripped the rod out of my hands (tension was way too high (I think my son was playing with it and I fogmrgot to check it)). Anyway he didn’t go far because of the tension.
At that point I was completely confused at to what it was. No way a 3lb pike nearly rips my rod out of my hands.
Then the fucker jumped. Now I have seen 4 lb smallies before but this behemoth dwarfed those guys.
Unfortunately he spat the hook out and I didn’t get him but I sure got a good look at this thing and I have never seen a small mouth so big.
Both of us were completely shocked at how large this fish was. And both are very pissed that I didn’t land it.
Anyway my guess is about a 6 lb smallmouth and that it about as big as they get around these parts.
How does Danny Hart sit down with balls that big?
Yesterday I hooked into my best fish ever. Just threw out a Mepps at the bottom of some rapids and I felt a tug. Not a big tug mind you. I didn’t do a great job of setting the hook. I think that he took the lure and started swimming right at me.
Anyway it was barely fighting so my assumption was that I was a pike. Then it swam right by me but I didn’t get a good look at it. It looked long and thin so again I assumed a 3 lb pike. Then it decided to go for a run and nearly ripped the rod out of my hands (tension was way too high (I think my son was playing with it and I fogmrgot to check it)). Anyway he didn’t go far because of the tension.
At that point I was completely confused at to what it was. No way a 3lb pike nearly rips my rod out of my hands.
Then the fucker jumped. Now I have seen 4 lb smallies before but this behemoth dwarfed those guys.
Unfortunately he spat the hook out and I didn’t get him but I sure got a good look at this thing and I have never seen a small mouth so big.
Both of us were completely shocked at how large this fish was. And both are very pissed that I didn’t land it.
Anyway my guess is about a 6 lb smallmouth and that it about as big as they get around these parts.
How does Danny Hart sit down with balls that big?
