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Decided to hit the upper James River yesterday with a buddy and went in with pretty low expectations as I haven
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Decided to hit the upper James River yesterday with a buddy and went in with pretty low expectations as I havent fished that stretch in almost 2 years and never in the winter....hit a tapering point first thing and my buddy caught a nice 13 inch crappie off a blade bait so at least we got the skunk out of the boat :) we moved a few 100 yards down the river to fish a channel bank with rock on it and I picked up a ned rig to flip next to a tree and as we floated down I made mention to my buddy what was on the graph...I was like that looks like a little bait ball with one big fish sitting behind it so I just off of dropped my ned rig down to the bottom not really expecting anything but as soon as the bait hit the bottom....thwack...set the hook and told him I think this is a pretty good fish...get the fish to the boat and it was a 21 1/2 inch smallie and weighed just under 5 pounds! I ve been trying to catch a citation smallie forever now and man I couldnt describe the feeling of catching that fish! we managed a few more smallies on blade baits and I caught a nice chunky large mouth to end the day on a 110 +1 off the same point we started on...I also found a really nice school or crappie hanging out on a submerged lay down that I was able to find on my SI....learning to read your graph can lead to such better fishing! We pulled 10/12 nice sized crappie of the lay down and called it a day
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Sweet. How far up the James were you?2013 Frog Only Tournament Winner
2010 Tie for VA-Outdoors Angler of the Year
2009 Caroline County Rotary Club Tournament Winner
2007 Tuesday Night Classic Champions"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after."sigpicComment
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Really nice smallie! Congrats
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Up around Lynchburg LarryMake VAO Great againComment
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great work, aaron. some nice fish in that bag.sigpicComment
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That's an awesome smallie! I need to do that one day! Good job dude!Eric
2004 Fishers of Men VA-East Division Champions
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Beast of a smallie, WTG!Comment
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Saw your pic on the cover of this month's Woods and Waters.Comment
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