The plan was to head to the Cape to hit the small pond my buddy got his PB (over 8lbs) at last fall. Well we launch early AM and there are two guys already on the water. He thought they were trout guys but to our disappointment they weren't. Well 1 lap around and us only nabbing a small perch the call was a made to select another pond.
Well I had a time window to be home so my buddy decides to head North back over the bridge and sets us up at a small pond that they say has only Smallies and panfish. Well he made the right call after telling me that we would be all in at this point due to the weather coming and my window.
We made the best of it as I got my first smallie on a j11 (trout) followed by another. He grabbbed 1 on a dt10. We reset another drift and I switched toa j9 with an orange belly (actaul color brook trout) and wham a nice smallie and then 1 close to three pounds.
Well total for me was 2 perch 8 smallies. These things fight like tanks and had me calling for the net many times over only to see a 12in fish at the boat lol. it was raw and then real cold as the rain came down.
I look forward to adding this fiesty fish to my routine next year..at least I hope as they say they can be tough when the go deep.