passaic river smallies

[mack]

i started out with a yellow buzzbait in the morning around sunrise and after 3 casts, caught a 10 inch dink...this was my first fish on my new baitcaster combo and my first smallie on a buzzbait..my friend caught a few on a white jitterbug..after an hour with the buzzbait with no strikes, i then switched a yellow sonic roostertail and the action started..catching smallies left and right...then my friend tells me "slow your lure down, a bass is following it.." i slowed it down and i feel a bang and i set the hook...my drag starts peeling out..then a nice 2 - 3 pound bass comes flying and spits the hook..disappointing, but i moved on..lost a few nice smallies about 15 inches or so that also jumped (those big bass sure do know how to get a hook out of their mouths lol)...i started throwing a white bitenbass beaver with red flakes and caught a decent 12 inch smallie...caught a few more dinks then switched back to a roostertail..i then hooked and landed a 13.5 inch smallie. caught a few more dinks then left..caught 23 smallmouths in total..pretty fun day...here are pictures of the 12 incher and the 13.5 incher...