On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 13:24:45 -0400, "Alwaysfishking"
wrote:

Ok this one kinda shocked me. Was out early fishing with Jeremy on the small
lake here in NE Pennsylvania, Now I have fished these lakes for over 7 years
now and thought I had caught every fish in them. LM bass, Catfish, toothy
critters, sunfish, bluegill, even eels.

Well as we were fishing Jeremy has his spinnerbait just get slammed by a
fish. It leaps, looks like a good fish then manages to put a decent bend in
his rod till he gets it into the boat. As he;s lifting it over the side, I
saw something that I never saw before in these waters. A smallmouth bass.
Beautiful fish in the 2-2 1/2 pound range. And living up to everybit of the
name bronzeback. I was stunned. We both kinda looked at each other with that
"what the f%^&" look.


So now I have a bunch of questions.

1) Whats the chances that there are more in this lake and that me Dave and a
variety of other anglers have never caught any? ( Me thinks not possible)

2) What are the chances that this SM was the only one released in this lake
by someone?

3) Do smallmouth bass and Lm bass cross breed?

Hell and I have to move now


There is a lake near Mountain in Northern WI I have fished at least 3
or 4 dozen times and always caught LM. Then one day casting to the
shoreline like I always did I started catching SM. About every third
cast was a Smallie!

I have fished another lake near Merrill for two years and never pulled
a SM but caught many, many LM. Friends caught SM on a regular basis.

It could have been dumped or you just found one of a few that live
there.