Plattsburgh, New York

Just a few of the many tanks caught this weekend. Caught about two dozen with all of these breaking 3lbs. The biggest fish of the weekend was a 3lb 13oz smallmouth. I’m really hoping I can break 4lbs soon!

More smallies and a couple stocker brownies today. Only had an hour with the smallies and went for native brookies with no luck. Plan to tough out the rain tomorrow in hopes of that 4 pounder.

Couldn’t catch the elusive 4 pounder today, but I still managed one nice red-eyed stud. In total I caught 5 smallies with one breaking 3lbs. Another big success story: no lost lures today! I thought it was going to be impossible but I finally managed to do it. I did almost lose one to a submerged tree, but after 5 minutes of trying to force it out, I managed to break an entire limb off and retrieve my husky jerk from the depths.

Stud after stud after stud today. Once again, a broken PB by 2 ounces. Today’s biggest came in at 3lbs 14oz. Caught at least 7 three pounders and a nice pike on jerkbaits and swimbaits. The 4 pounder is so close I can taste it.

One of the craziest days of fishing I’ve had in a long time. Caught 3 PB’s today! The first was a new PB Smallmouth that weighed in at 3lbs 12oz, breaking Saturdays PB by 2oz. The next PB was a 4lb white sucker that ate my x-rap on the pause. After having tons of success with 5 smallmouth over three pounds and landing my 4th biggest pike at 27 inches, I ended the night with yet another personal best. Yet again, it was a white sucker that ate my x-rap, coming in at a whopping 6lbs. I don’t know much about the white sucker run, but I am very surprised that these things are biting 4 inch jerkbaits.

Another successful day of early spring smallie fishing. Got three today that wanted the rapalas, including one on the very first cast. Today’s biggest was a 3lb 4oz fatty that wanted the shadow rap. Dicks sporting goods’ buy 3 get 3 free discount on rapalas is calling my name with all of these jerkbaits I’ve been losing.

New PB! The warmest day of the year so far and the smallmouth had the same motivation I did to head to the river. Two weighed in at over 3lbs with the biggest being a new personal best coming in at 3lbs 10oz. Got 6 smallies in total, lost 5 rapalas, and caught an extremely aggressive rainbow (baby steelhead?). I’ve been told numerous times that these little rainbows I encounter every once in a while are steelhead. I still have yet to learn the reasoning behind why some are considered that.

Silver pike?