20.5!

By this time of summer most people are ready for a break in the weather. Not me. I'm really hoping it stays hot just a couple weeks longer. With the water as warm and as low as it gets all year I feel like it really narrows down the places you are going to find a nice smallmouth feeding in a small to medium sized river. Pretty much find the fastest slot of water you can find that has a bit of holding water right next to it or in it and there's a good chance that's where the fish are going to be if they are feeding. Sometimes it's amazingly fast and shallow water too. The key is fast. If you think it's too fast find somewhere just a bit faster and fish there. This 20" beastie was in about a foot of very fast water six inches from water that was absolutely raging...