Well Labor Day started with my wife and Annie May heading to a friends to hang out with her and her kids for a little while. I was told to drop her off and go fishing...hmm I haven't been a husband that long and dad way less but when the wife says go fishing I do not blink at the chance I head to find some water as quick as I can. This year has been a rough year on some local waters its been a wet year and when it rains well its usually chocolate milk and tough fishing for a while and this summer its been that way a lot. Labor Day marked something else some fairly good conditions on the local creek so instead of heading to the ponds I pulled off in wide spot after a bridge where there is some good weed beds and strung up the 7wt with a nice sized popper. Started off fairly slow, the water had a good flow but I seemed to be turning nothing then all a sudden right off a weed back whack first smallie fish on but not long enough after a few jumps away he went back into the depths. I pressed onward and upstream still some better water was ahead and I had hopes of making this a good day when all a sudden a nice boil behind the popper and we have another solid hook up. This fish was not like the others however he was solid the immediate bend in the 7wt was a good sign of things to follow. The fish inhaled the popper so the hook set was good and after several water clearing jumps that was probably a good thing. After a nice battle the smallie was at my feet and to my surprise a very good one! After a few pictures and a quick release we were back at it running the popper past weed beds. Another decent smallie and it was a good day on the water, but then again any day on the water seems like a good day!
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