Yes, it is true. One of my clients captured a 5-pound smallmouth this week. That by itself isn't unusual , except, this big brown fish was caught on a simple piece of chicken breast!
This is the third time in my life I've seen a smallmouth caught on a piece of chicken breast, but the other two were up near the dam, in very fast current. I could easily understand why a smallmouth might mistake a glimpse of chicken in the fast current for a shad drifting by.
But yesterday's smallmouth was captured far downriver (actually in downtown Chattanooga) while we were just slowly dead drifting chicken breast for cats. This big brown fish apparently had been hanging out with the catfish too long and just decided, "I need a piece of dead meat."
You could have knocked me over with a feather.
That was just the cap-off of a glorious day catching white bass, catfish, and the kicker smallmouth. Here's a fun little video taste: https://youtu.be/ROaAhoFTnLk
This is the third time in my life I've seen a smallmouth caught on a piece of chicken breast, but the other two were up near the dam, in very fast current. I could easily understand why a smallmouth might mistake a glimpse of chicken in the fast current for a shad drifting by.
But yesterday's smallmouth was captured far downriver (actually in downtown Chattanooga) while we were just slowly dead drifting chicken breast for cats. This big brown fish apparently had been hanging out with the catfish too long and just decided, "I need a piece of dead meat."
You could have knocked me over with a feather.
That was just the cap-off of a glorious day catching white bass, catfish, and the kicker smallmouth. Here's a fun little video taste: https://youtu.be/ROaAhoFTnLk
