Not a record but still a super respectable Smallie.

[Swizzlestick]

20" 4.5lb Scaled. Probably would have gone over 5 but right as we were netting him he coughed up a 6" trout.

06/25/2009 Edit. A lot of people (below) have asked about where we caught this fish. It's no secret and some people have picked the spot. It is the upper end of Long Lake (Spokane River) Below 9 mile dam at the confluence. BTW The poster is not the cat in the picture. But I will let him know you all love his Tats.

[Teal101]

One ballsy smallie if it tried swallowing a 6 foot trout:-"

[Bisk1tSnGraV]

Nice fish and way to kick it up a notch on your first post! Welcome aboard!!!

[swedefish4life1]

:chef:

[swedefish4life1]

You might want to meet up with Flipper#-o the Skeeter madman:-$ and first have a TAT OFF:colors: then fish off???

Nice fish!!!:cheers: :bounce:

[curado]

nice smallie i get a few that size in lake stevens

[davidwat1]

Beautiful Smallie! What body of water is that.....really great scenery! Swede funny about the Tat-off...flips loaded with 'em, wasn't sure I wanted to let him on my boat!! :bom: just kidding!

[Desertcreek]

Beautiful Smallie! What body of water is that.....really great scenery! Swede funny about the Tat-off...flips loaded with 'em, wasn't sure I wanted to let him on my boat!! :bom: just kidding!

That is pretty scenery. I know where it is (I was there last night)and it's no secret but I don't know the rules about these kinds of things and some of you guys are so freakin sensitive. The guy is from Spokane....that should help a little.

[davidwat1]

Unfortunately for me, I've never had the pleasure of fishing anything further east than Lake Roosevelt in this state, so if it's Long Lake, I couldn't tell from the pic....just guessing since I know that's your stompin' ground DC!. Anyways, no problem, I don't want to pressure anyone to reveal a honey hole. Tight Lines! - Dave

[swedefish4life1]

Tell me this and I am far from the conservative ya think :cyclops: :colors:= ditch other then drunks or drugs:-$

I had 20 gals friends beg me to do the beef sticks with tats I tated them:-$

I did it all zero warrior tats the few I quess I understand at least some as many of my victims were tramp stamped :colors: LOL

The Ear Rings come on guys please :colors: friggen Girly-girl:colors: off the hook and I know REAL KILLER PIRATES WTF is up with the ear-rings :colors: other then Jenn wants hers back!!!:-$

They sport farther fishing gear then guys Iron works and the tats I hate jail and prizon

The whole gig is a Copy of B-B and more Gangster without game and the tats look real SWEET aroung age 65 and up
I quess i finally got old!!!! LMAO!!!

Zero tats , ear rings, mouth spikes for Swede:-$

I already fit poorly around Fine China and who the heck gets up to shave pull the ball cap on and yells shoot I forget my ear-rings??? LMAO!!!


I still love the Flipper but once I tat his forehead KOed from Swede [-x he will love me less!:-({|=

Back to the fish Great picture:-$ Great fish!!!!

The tatless, earinger less8-[ :thumright


PS= the honey hole been there E:-$

[davidwat1]

Before this gets out of hand....i just want to (for the record) state, I have a tat on both of my arms as well, small tribal stuff...not like Flip and Swizzle, so I'm not a hater, was just funnin' with Flip regarding my comment about not letting him on my boat!!

[swedefish4life1]

Never said once hate or great:-$ :colors:

[davidwat1]

nope, me neither, just didn't want to leave it open to interpretation big swede!

[fishaholictaz]

There was a report on where this fish was caught within the last week:-"

[BassinBomber]

Good lookin Bronzie Swizzlestick!

BB

[Desertcreek]

That fish is definitely from Long or as some of you transplants insist on calling it Lake Spokane. I wasn't trying to keep any secrets and that lake is by no means a secret. I just remember some guys freaking out about naming a location as if it were some mystery. I don't know the guy holding the fish but it is a nice fish. I'm sure I will run into him at some point. If I do I am going to make fun of his tats in a way that he barely understands and tell him my name is Swede and drive off.
Just kidding.

[swedefish4life1]

LMAO!!!!:-$

Bring a naildriver:bounce: :bom:

Desert creek ya the man!:-$

[davidwat1]

Long Lake has been on my list of lakes to fish for a while, but honestly I only knew they had really big largemouth, didn't know about the smallies, and had no idea it was so scenic looking. Now I really want to make it a point to get over there and check it out sometime!

[Desertcreek]

Maybe Long is a bigger mystery than I thought and I should shut my pie hole. It is a fairly big reservoir. It is around 20 miles long from dam to dam. It never gets super wide but it is absolutely beautiful from a bass fisherman's perspective. There are a lot of people who say they won't fish it because it is contaminated. I would like to know of a lake below 5,000 feet of elevation that isn't contaminated. Personally I think those guys are using that as an excuse not to fish it because they don't know how and it's easier to figure out some little lake where the fish have no place to hide.The SM fishing is better than the LM fishing as far as numbers of fish. It is also getting right up there as far as size goes. I may be way off base with this but I want to say that the SM were only introduced as recent as 20 years ago. You guys all know how long it takes for a SM to grow. I think that is the reason it doesn't get as much fame for it's SM population. They had not reached their maximum potential until the last 5 years or so. In the spring when all bass are dumb I catch lots of 4's and I caught a few 5's this year as well. One of my buddies weighed a 6.3 in a tournament we had in May. The host of Columbia Country caught a 6lb 11 oz SM 2 years ago in the spring. You could just as easily weigh a 20 lb. bag of SM as you could LM. I love the place and fish it all the time because it is so close to my house and it is big enough that you never feel like you are fishing for pets. That is if you spend time exploring and don't just fish the same stuff all the time.

[kevinb]

Nice bronzie!!!:cheers: