Small Mouth Hog @ Hubbard

[Fishfoote]

Fished tonight for walleye - lost two fish w/o bringing them in close enough to know what was on the line, circled and took another pass and hook into a real fight. Thought maybe a carp first, but got it into the boat and it was a solid 19" small mouth! Biggest I've ever seen. I'm going to get it mounted. Anyone know if it's a master angler?

[shady oaks]

nice catch! in order for it to be a master angler award fish, it's got to be 5 lbs. for a catch and keep or 21'' for catch and release. here's a website with the info and application.

http://www.michigan.gov/documents/masterangler2003-PR8008_51760_7.pdf

either way though, nice fish. congrats.

[Bassman Dan]

Nice fish but not master angler. Minimum entry = 21" C&R or 5lbs C&K. Smallmouth that big are definetely out there.

[chuckinduck]

Thats a nice fish, but thats like a 26" walleye in my opinion(not a 26" hubbard walleye). You fish Hubbard quite a bit from the posts I read and Hubbard is loaded with giant smallies. I think you could easily get a 20-21" fish out of hubbard if you targetted them all summer. I don't know if you are a member of the HLSA but they just did a creel study in hubbard and the reports came back excellent. They used large traps that were 10 x 10' and many of the traps had in excess of 100 smallies. I'd keep searching for a really big tank to put on the wall. My biggest was 21" out of lake huron on drummond island and I thought about mounting her, but she was full of spawn so I tossed her back. Good Job. I fished this weekend for smallies to and managed a couple before the winds picked up, nothing as big as yours, the biggest was 16"

[Fishfoote]

I didn't have anything to weigh it - wouldn't have been official even if I did. Probably could have went 5lbs - maybe more, but it's the biggest smallie I've ever caught. Went out again tonight in the same general area 9 fow N/S of the Hardwoods. Got one perch and one walleye - both about 8 inches:sad: It's definitely a tough bite, but with a couple beers on board, excellent weather, reasonable tunes, and fireworks going on around the lake it's better than 99% of most activities I can think of. Thanks for the response.

[chuckinduck]

fnf,
Did you try running up near the launch, by west winds? I've always had luck running that shoreline for smallies when the walleye bite goes south like it has for me this summer. :sad: