Bud..... That is a Largemouth, Smallmouth have a bronze back, I thought it was a Smallmouth while you were fighting it.
I'm tellin you Bud, I can garauntee you that I am about the only person on this forum that has been dedicated to the area between the dock and Minto from the shore for about 5 years now, I told you in the text message, Out of the 10 years and probably 1200 days I have fished, I learned 95% of what I know on my own, point is, if you want to fish like everyone else, ask away, but if you want to learn how to fish your own way, you gotta accept trial and error (aka don't ask, get out and do it and learn from it), the only way to find out what works is to cancel out what doesn't work, kinda like our ol' buddy Thomas Edison once said "I didn't fail, I just found 1,000 ways that don't work".
