A guy that I work with has caught some small mouth in the 5 to 6 lb range in that area. He told me that he watched a show with Benny Hull fishing that area and he called him to ask him exactly how to do it. I called my buddy last night and he told me to start drifting around the rivermont boat ramp and drift anywhere from the the green buoys to the rivermont bank. He said he usually starts at about 30 ft off of the bank and drifts down to the mile marker light, picks up, and moves over on the next pass. He said that he only fishes a tube and tries to match the tube with the same color as the water. He said that he continues to make passes until he gets to the green buoys. He told me about some drop offs that the fish were stacked up on and a hole in the river that Benny told him was a waterfall years ago. Well I headed out this a.m. with intentions of catching some smallies. I got out there about 8:00a.m. and the fog was as thick as I had ever seen, but burned off fast. Caught a couple of smallies that were maybe 10 inches a piece on the first pass. There is a slew at the Mile marker light with a dock and a boat ramp and the water was so calm I couldn't resist throwing a popper. Caught 3 nice Largemouths on the popper. Picked up and made another pass. Hooked up with a big drum. The thing was huge. I thought I was hung at first. That was fun but I got concerned about my rod breaking at one point. Anyway, only managed to catch a couple of more Smallies the rest of the day and left at about 2:00pm. There were several more boats out there and it looked like they were only catching small ones. Some were trolling and some were bouncing plastics. I caught my last two fish on a Chartreuse and pepper centipede. You get hung up alot but you can break free if you troll up river of where you are hung and pull it loose. Only lost one hook all day. My buddy said if you aren't getting hung, you're doing it wrong.
