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Pre-spawn, Snake River, Smallie. - iwantabuggy - 03-20-2011
Went to the snake river yesterday. Fished below Swan Falls. Water temp was 48 deg. Caught one pre-spawn smallie. Might be my best smallie ever. [
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Re: [iwantabuggy] Pre-spawn, Snake River, Smallie. - SagebrushID - 03-20-2011
That's a great smallie, especially for Swan Falls. All I ever seem to catch there are dinkers!
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Re: [iwantabuggy] Pre-spawn, Snake River, Smallie. - Bassnbob - 03-20-2011
Nice smallie. You should of released him above the dam so I could get a chance to catch him. [cool]
I usually do pretty good at Swan above the dam but I never made it there last year. Definitely gotta get back there this year.
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Re: [Bassnbob] Pre-spawn, Snake River, Smallie. - iwantabuggy - 03-20-2011
I never said I released her. I did, but I never said so. Couldn't see keeping one like that with all the perch in the freezer.
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Re: [iwantabuggy] Pre-spawn, Snake River, Smallie. - hulapopper - 03-21-2011
nice one ! what did she hit ?
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Re: [hulapopper] Pre-spawn, Snake River, Smallie. - iwantabuggy - 03-21-2011
3" Chart grub.
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Re: [iwantabuggy] Pre-spawn, Snake River, Smallie. - Bassnbob - 03-21-2011
I just knew a good bass fisherman like you, would let a spawner go. [
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Re: [iwantabuggy] Pre-spawn, Snake River, Smallie. - windriver - 03-21-2011
Nice Smallie. Now that 48 degree water needs to work its way upriver to my spots.
Windriver
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Re: [windriver] Pre-spawn, Snake River, Smallie. - iwantabuggy - 03-21-2011
Yeah. Too bad I didn't get her through the ice[
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Re: [iwantabuggy] Pre-spawn, Snake River, Smallie. - SmartWeed - 03-22-2011
Nice fish!
I'm curious as to whether the river was high, muddy, and full of floating weeds below the dam? I was fishing 30-40 miles downstream below you that day, and those were the conditions. I wondered if there was runoff coming into the river, and if the weeds were ripped off the bottom, with more and more the further downstream a person went.
Incidentally, my two thermometers read 43 and 46 degrees of surface temp.
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Re: [SmartWeed] Pre-spawn, Snake River, Smallie. - iwantabuggy - 03-22-2011
Not many weeds in the water near the Swan. The water was a bit dark, but not terrible.
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