22inch fingerlakesNY

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Comment by John Sheehan on August 22, 2010 at 2:11pm

Yes sir Fantastic fish is right! Glad to hear it was caught in NY state!

Congratulations on your great catch!

Comment by Bruce Condello on April 4, 2009 at 7:06pm

Fantastic fish!!!

Comment by James Feasel on February 13, 2009 at 7:15pm

The wife and I were with multi-species guide John Gaulke. Best guide I've ever hired, and we've been out with some really well known/famous guides. We were vertical jigging for lakers, 40' to 105' deep. The wife popped several smallies in the 40' to 48' depths. The lakers came from 70' or deeper, so any bites shallower were assumed to be smallies. You let the smallmouth decide how quickly it wants to surface and all is well. Our releases appeared to be just fine. John uses a flasher to stay on the baitfish. We only fished where we saw bait and could watch the strike on the flasher. We also landed some big rainbows. I hooked the biggest bronzeback ever seen by myself or the guide, 20' down over 105' of water. Kept it on for the first jump, but it pulled off on a power dive. That fish was one or two classes above that 22" fish. New york is an excellent smallmouth destination. The average NY smallie for us were larger than dale hollow TN smallies.

Comment by Jeremy R. Mayo on February 13, 2009 at 5:18pm

Im suprised his eyes didnt pop out from the pressure change!

Comment by Tom Hudson on February 13, 2009 at 4:34pm

I meant to say, that's a huge fish for anywhere, actually, but especially for NY!

Comment by Tom Hudson on February 13, 2009 at 4:32pm

AWESOME - that's a huge fish for NY. I have fished Schroon lake for Smallies but caught nothing even close to this!

56' is DEEP - were they on a rockpile nailing baitfish? Any issues with the swim bladder bringing it up from so deep?