"Ken Fortenberry" wrote And everybody knows
that the hardest fighting freshwater fish, pound-for-pound,
is the bluegill.

i must agree with that. those big, thick purple *******s, with a profile
about the 4-5 inches tall, will wear you out over the course of a late
afternoon.

I'd love to go fly fishing for smallmouth with poppers. That's
one of the reasons I paddle far into the Canadian backcountry.

when you were in tons, you were about 100 miles southwest of one of the
great smallmouth fisheries anywhere--the new river, up in ashe county, nc.
bring your ass back down here, and we will take my new mad river up to
jefferson, nc. and blow 'em up!

wayno