history buff smallmouth

I found when researching my book on the Little Miami River that with a bit of digging thru local history both on the internet and at local historical societies that you can sometimes dig up some useful information that will help your fishing. Here in Southern Ohio there were lots of water powered industry and mill dams in all our rivers. The remnants of most are still there. It's sweet to find old stone walls and concrete buried in the river that doesn't really show up on Google maps. For example the blocks you can see barely sticking out of the rock bar in the one photo were also present out in the river underwater creating a holding spot for the nice smallmouth I caught this evening on a clear with silver glitter grub.