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Green or Brown?

When given the choice, which species would you rather fish for? I do enjoy catching both, but I find that I'm much more passionate about hunting largemouth. Smallmouth can be a lot of fun, especially on certain techniques, but most of the time I just fish for them out of necessity. I know I should probably spend more time targeting and learning smallmouth in case I get an opportunity to compete on a circuit like Northwest Bass in the future. With my limited fishing time, however, I have a hard time staying away from the largemouth. Just curious what your guys' preference is?

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Permalink Reply by Johnny Walker on April 17, 2009 at 10:08am

LARGies!

Permalink Reply by RFatt16 on April 17, 2009 at 11:17am

I figure with my skills(or lack of) i will go after anything until i feel, I'm good enough to target just 1.

Permalink Reply by Jerry on April 17, 2009 at 2:52pm

Largies. Just something ominous about em.

Permalink Reply by kzoo on April 17, 2009 at 6:04pm

I use to fish largies all the time, they were the only thing available locally, but venturing out for smallies really got me hooked. Smallies for me!

Permalink Reply by Jeremiah Partyke on April 17, 2009 at 8:57pm

As much as I love catchn the smallies I would have to say the Largies win me over ever time if I have a choice.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Guenther on April 18, 2009 at 4:39am

LMB...ALL THE WAY!

Permalink Reply by Mike Lukjanowicz on April 18, 2009 at 7:14am

I've found that I fish for smallies more than I fish for largies. I have lots to learn to be better at catching both, but feel more comfortable w/ smallies. That bieng said, I think I really get more excited, and have so much more fun w/ a big largemaouth than a big smallmouth. Maybe I just need to spend more time learning to be a better largemouth angler....

Permalink Reply by Willie Parsons on April 18, 2009 at 6:13pm

fat girls, I thought we were talking about fish...couldn't resist, sorry

SPARKY said:

I really like the smallies...but gonna do more effort for the fat girls this year...either 1 is great to target IMO..

Permalink Reply by Tag Watson on April 18, 2009 at 10:41pm

In my opinion, nothing beats pre-spawn largemouth when they decide to turn on. This afternoon I encountered a 2 hour window where the jig bite turned red hot. The best 5 were around 36 lbs. and the big fish was a 10 pounder. I caught a few on the 1/2 oz. Pig Jig and then worked back through the key stretch of water with a smaller profile jig to pick up some additional fish.