Today brings to a close the first week of the smallmouth season for us at Tight Lines. We open up for one week of pre-spawn smallmouth trips on the Menominee River and then give the fish a few weeks to do their thing and start to recover. It was a week full of big fish, big smiles and lots and lots of wind. Wednesday was the only day that was fairly calm in the afternoon, other than that it was gusty pretty much all the time. All we could do was find shorelines that weren't as affected by the wind and do the best we could. The fish didn't seem to mind though, showing quite a bit of aggressiveness in the afternoons on big baitfish patterns and poppers. The Murdich, the Barto and the Angel Sculpin were the top sub-surface producers. On top, the fish loved the Boogle and the Ham Sandwich. The pike are showing their usual springtime grabbiness, biting off or deeply swallowing just about any fly they can get their greedy mouths on. We did see a fair number of beds that were being made, but only a couple with fish on them. By the end of next week they'll be doing their business in the shallows. It was great to be up north again.
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