I got out for a couple of hours on Friday night. I caught a few smallmouth, some creek chubs and a few rock bass. One of the rockbass was a real slab of a fish. The fish of the day was also the fish of the summer so far. It was an 18" beast of a smallmouth. All the fish I caught that night were on a crayfish pattern. When I landed this huge small mouth I noticed its last meal was still sticking out of its gullet. The bass had eaten a HUGE crayfish. The crayfish's large claw and an antenna was sticking out of the fish's gullet, but you could tell it was more like a small lobster than a crayfish. This thing had to be four or five times the size of my fly. Big food = big fish. I need to tie some bigger crayfish flies.
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| Check out the cool black edges on its fins |
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| Mmm... crayfish! |
