This past Friday was just too beautiful of a day and I had a couple extra PTO days burning a hole in my pocket.  So my buddy Josh Douglas and I hit one of our favorite small stretches of river and hunted down some smallmouth.  Numbers were good, I edged out JD 24-20 in about 4 hours of fishing.  We had several fish around the 3lb mark.

Most fish fell victims to green pumpkin tubes, I tried a new jig head, turns out that a Tru-Tungsten Ikey head makes a pretty sweet tube jig head.  If you have some Ikey heads, you will have to try them in a tube sometime, it increases your feel and its unique eye placement seems to make the tube come through rocks, wood and snags very well.  Plus its got a great super sharp hook to stick them smallies.  My tube of choice was a 3.5″ Coffee Tube.

Seems like a solid start to my fall/winter fun fishing season and it help get the bad taste from my last few outing of my mouth!  Also, justed loaded 3 Shimano Reels and a handheld GPS onto my eBay store for my Dad.