The water is warm (wearing shorts in the river), so I am hunting smallmouth. I pulled this nice (for my water) smallie this morning with one of Todd's Grinch.
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As some may recall, I avoid taking the fish out of water, rarely do hero shots and if possible release by holding the hook. Sometimes I have to "lip" the fish.
I had one this morning, I had to use the foreceps.
The water was warm, there were some huge bull-frogs, the common loons were in the software below, the small young smallmouth (5" at best) were hitting the small mayflies on the surface, as the purple martins where eating as much as they can.
As I need to work on my double-haul, I was using a SH.