Young folks probably won't know what I'm talking about, but...

[Fumus]

Young'uns might not understand, but I'm really starting to feel like a broken record, broken record, broken record...(scritch). I swear ain't no one paying me to say it, I'm just telling it like it is. SLABSAUCE ROCKS!!! Took my youngest to the river looking for smallmouths. Caught a couple little ones, then slathered a nightcrawler in slabsauce and pitched it out in the deeper water near some rocks and watched the line. Less than a minute or two later, I noticed the line moving off against the current and told my youngest that either my nightcrawler was suddenly the Michael Phelps of the annelida set, or there was a fish on the other end of my line. Well, turns out it was my PB smallmouth. 17" and right at two and a half pounds. And I'll say it again...SLABSAUCE ROCKS!!

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[Ketchn]

bass really love the sauce , many a times first cast with the sauce i hook one
especially when i hit the river fish
congrats

[BobC]

Nothing like upping your Pb, Fumus! Great catch and photo. Smallies fight so well and river smallies seem to up the fight another notch or two. They sure have attitude!
Bob

[Ketchn]

Nothing like upping your Pb, Fumus! Great catch and photo. Smallies fight so well and river smallies seem to up the fight another notch or two. They sure have attitude!
Bob

used to ketch some monster smallies as a kiddo , a nightcrawler pitched in a real small creek here and there ,up against an undercut bank ,laydown or behind a big rock in a deeper hole seemed to be the spot they always hid in .
pulled a few really surprisingly large ones out of some real tiny streams and such back when .
and lost a few too .....

[skeetbum]

Way cool. Bet the youngun remembers that for a minute.

[Fumus]

Way cool. Bet the youngun remembers that for a minute.

Aye, was a good day with the young man. Starting out he managed to knock the bucket topper full of tackle into the water and when I told him to hurry and grab it before it floated away, he seemed to have some sort of teenage brain short circuit event, so I had to do some fast rock hoppin over to him with a quick belly down on the rocks to rescue the tackle. He's probably the more sensitive of my kids and when I growled at him for not moving faster to save the topper, he kinda clouded up and wanted to go sit in the rig. I told him "nope, that's not how life works. Something you don't want to happen happens, you don't just quit and go sit in the car. You deal with it and keep on fishing." Well he kept on fishing and promptly caught his first smallmouth (thank you Lord), and was all smiles again. A little while later, after he did a fine job of netting my big fish for me, I managed to kick the whole freaking bucket into the water (yup, was one of those days). As I was fishing everything back out of the water, he smiles and say's "now don't quit fishing dad". I had to chuckle "nope, can't let a little adversity get in the way of fishing or anything else important".
Like I said, it was a good day.

[Redge]

Nice fish!
We have sallies in my home lake.
They can be quite the handful.
Kudos to you on the life lesson, it is great he ribbed you back!


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