Fishing is awesome.

John and I went back to the big river for some smallmouth. I shot a picture of the boat at the landing at 7 am. Pure potential energy. You get the sense when the day starts that anything goes. The sky is the limit. You might hook a whale or snag a mermaid. Well, as it turned out, we did neither. What we did do is boat an astronomical number of smallmouth. 50-75 we estimated. I'm going to guess the average size at 13 inches, but we got some fish pushing 16-17" as well. Regardeless of size, they all put a bend in our 7 and 8 weights. Who needs mermaids?