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        2005 Smallmouth Photos

• Rich Coffman lands first trophy of the year with this 20.25" 4lb smallmouth caught March 9, 2005
• Hal Drake snaps jig to coax this reluctant 22" 5lb 4oz smallmouth to bite on March 10, 2005
• Hal lands this 20" smallmouth on the very next cast
• Hal Drake's cookie cutter 20" 4lb 4oz smallmouth bass caught on March 22, 2005
• Joe North fishes hard for two days until he gets this hansome 20.75" 4lb smallmouth to bite on March 12, 2005
• Jack starts things off early with this 20.5" 4lb smallmouth which ate a small jig on March 16, 2005
• Gary follows Jack closely with this slightly bigger 20.75" 4lb 8oz pig on March 16, 2005
• Today Gary gets both citations starting with this 20" 4lb smallmouth on March 17, 2005
• Gary's second citition comes just before the end of the day at 20.5" and 4lb 2oz on March 17, 2005
• Hamilton Bell Travels from Louisiana to find this super thick 20.75" 5lb 0oz pig on March 18, 2005
• Hal Drake catches big fish of the season at a monster 22" and 5lb 10oz on March 21, 2005
• Hal posts up with a 20" smallmouth on March 22nd, 2005
• On the next cast Hal gets his third five pounder of the year this one 22" and 5lbs even - March 22, 2005
• Hal finishes his New River stint with a last day 21.25" 4lb 12oz smallmouth on March 23, 2005
• Richard Wyly flyfishes hard for 8 smallmouth in 2 days betweeen 16" and 18"
• Wojchiechowski fishes brutal high water for three and a half days and manages one 20" citation on March 31st
• Jon Cooper pulls us out of a slump with this 21.25" 4lb 6oz smallmouth on April 6, 2005
• Jeff makes contribution while working on a crankbait pattern with Brian and Jon to catch this 20" fish (Note: smallmouth was caught on a crankbait which Britt Stoudenmire of Canoe the New Outfitters lost in a tree earlier in the winter - we were able to recover it and replace the hooks - this is the first of three citation on it - thank you Britt!)
• Brian Graves catches second citation on Britt's crankbait with this 20.5" 4lb 4oz fish on April 7, 2005 - Thank you Britt!
• Brian Graves with one more 20" smallmouth on April 8, 2005 with Britt's Crankbait- thank you again Britt -I'll mail it back soon!
• Super Fat Pig 21.25" 5lb 8oz smallmouth landed by Ralph Hendrickson on a new Playing Hookie Float -look at the unbelievable body on this fish!
• Hal continues his spring streak with a 20" 3lb 8oz smallmouth on April 21st, 2005
• Hal also catches this 18.5" smallmouth on flyrod
• Rich Coffman's beautiful 20.5" 4lb 8oz smallmouth crunches a jig and pig
• Harry Schiavone's strong 19" fish fell for a CK baitfish fly
• Bundy lands this long 20.5" smallmouth my first time out on this big flow this year on May 2, 2005
• David Meade's thick 19" fish took a jig and pig mid-river May 1, 2005
• Michael Moore just misses 20" with this fish, which was the strongest smallmouth I've seen yet this year!
• Ted Kimmerly was overdue making the photo gallery - congratulations Ted on your 20" 4lb 4oz fish from May 12, 2005
• Patti McMahon casts a dragonfly to this huge rising smallmouth and connects, 20.5" and 4lbs - June 13, 2005
• Tom Westbrook pops this 19" pig on a cork bug - July 5, 2005
• Michael Reed's July smallmouth  - looks like a fat tick!
• Roy Potter lands this handsome 19" smallmouth on flyrod in August, and with style I might add
• Michael Reed with the longest flyrod smallmouth of the year at 21.5" and 4lbs 8oz, this fish ate a bug on August 8th
• Tremendously strong 20.5" smallmouth , Harry Schiavone's first flyrod Virginia Citation landed this August
• Carl Leonard has a great big fish day including this 18.5" smallmouth that began a big fish bite
• Wayne Tate and Carl Leonard team up with thier flyrods for a half dozen big fish, this one 17", nice fish Wayne
• Ben Lewis posts up with this 18.75" fattie caught September 6th on flyrod
• Bill Bush finds this smallmouth which weighed an awesome 4lbs at 19.25", caught Sepember 4th, one of four citation quality fish he and Ken hooked in two days, but this was the only one brought to hand.
• Steve Matera finds this great looking smallmouth under some trees on this hot August 29th day
• OH GOD!  Look at this bug tied by one of my fishermen, had to sneak the photo, look at the red alfalfa!
• Ralph Hendrickson with a 32" Shenandoah River Musky, nicely spotted fish, Ralph's first
• A bunch of nice fall Potomac River wintering smallmouth bass
• Rob Wimbish finds three 19" class smallmouth on this handsome November day.
• Jeff sneaks in this nice 21" 4lb 4oz jig and pig fish, thanks to Michael and Ralph for making me fish
• This 22" piggly wiggly secures honors for last big fish of the year caught on December 30, 2005

    2005 Carp Photos

• Harry Schiavone fighting this fly-hooked carp on his way to a boat record eight flyrod carp for the day, all caught on crayfish flies
• Sizzling carp run on a 34" fish, across the river and down the bank, we chased this one
• Harry's longest carp of the day at 34" and estimated 14-16 pounds from August 9th, 2005
• Harry's Colorful 32" carp from August 9th
• Another big carp at 33", this one a fat orange tick (August 9th), estimated at over 20 pounds
• A CARP DOUBLE!! Harry hooks first carp and I spot another one tailing and I knock a crayfish fly in his face and he pounces
• Hal Drake's August flyrod carp, hooked near wood, hard to get out
• Bo Williams 30" flyrod carp, this was the first carp we spotted I believe, his father did say his son had huge fishing karma
• Bo's second carp of the day at about 26"