Good Job on your first SMB! How'd it fight?

That's AWESOME, Oneshot! Congrats! Where you near the ship canal? I fished there once and was surprised to catch a few in a hour. Not the same as a steelhead, but pretty freak'n awesome considering it was so close to home. Let's hit the river soon!

Congrats! Now you are REALLY hooked. Just wait until you catch your first Largie, they fight different. Smallies run around but Largies just PUUUULLLLLL.

nicely done. How'd it taste?

I've caught a few largemouth in Washington, and a bunch as a kid in Texas. I just haven't concentrated much on bass here until now, so it feels good to get rewarded finally for my efforts last couple weeks.. never a smallmouth though.. good fight, it was fun watching him chase the bait down and hit it..

riverbound, get at me early september.. \m/

#4 FishingFool says:
nicely done. How'd it taste?

I don't know anyone that eats bass.. but I did taste victory and it tasted great!!

Having caught large mouth in Texas, and what appears to be a decent sized smally in the ship canal . Which do you feel fights harder? I thought, smalliies fight longer and harder than a same size largemouth. The endurance of a small mouth is far superior.

man.. i can't remember back when i was 12 and 13 how good the fights were in Texas, only that we would catch them in small ponds in Bastrop.. i had to take a trip down memory lane.. we lived on piney ridge dr..zoom in on this map and any pond you see with in like a few square miles i fished and i remember a couple of them had lots of fish. even ones on peoples property we would hit up cuz most land owners were real nice and we were just little kids. https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Bastrop,+Texas&hl=en&ll=30.127442,-97.299879&spn=0.013975,0.027981&sll=47.613028,-122.342064&sspn=0.348555,0.895386&oq=bastrop+texas&t=h&hnear=Bastrop,+Texas&z=16

Props on the fish!! Smallmouth to me are the better fighters, wait til your boy gets his first, fishing buddy for life, nice going!!

The few smallies I caught do not stop fighting.

Big congrats. My first smallie was about that size, but fought like it was 8 times as big! It's been a passion ever since. Nice work. Looking forward to the next one.