Only smallie I caught before moving to PA my uncle lived on a reservoir. I took my GF, now wife up to his place and his son was a 8-9 yo. He wanted to go down to water so I grabbed an old spincast zebco thing I’d never seen before, 3-4 tiny bullfrogs out of their chicken pond, and took him down. Lip hooked a frog and first cast we had a 6-7 lbs smallie. Bigger than 90% of the largemouth I’d caught in my life honestly. Kid was hooked after that and I didn’t realize just how big a smallie it was thinking they’d likely be the same size as large mouth having never seen one.
Only walleye I ever caught was there to. Beautiful reservoir and some areas are amazing to view. I didn’t know how to fish a waterway over 15’ so I just used worms and let line out of the canoe until it stopped. First fish I caught was a 14” walleye. I had no idea what I’d caught and we rowed to shore. Somehow my uncle and his buddies where at shoreline and one told me what it was and that it was 1” over legal. I didn’t know seasons existed then or any other laws really. Trout in Berkshires and Catskills might be legendary but they are just that, legends or more accurate myths.
Only walleye I ever caught was there to. Beautiful reservoir and some areas are amazing to view. I didn’t know how to fish a waterway over 15’ so I just used worms and let line out of the canoe until it stopped. First fish I caught was a 14” walleye. I had no idea what I’d caught and we rowed to shore. Somehow my uncle and his buddies where at shoreline and one told me what it was and that it was 1” over legal. I didn’t know seasons existed then or any other laws really. Trout in Berkshires and Catskills might be legendary but they are just that, legends or more accurate myths.
