Tim and Hunter just finished up with the shops pre-spawn smallmouth season.  The weather was cold, windy and rainy the first part of the week and fantastic on Sat and Sun.  Regardless of the difficult conditions the boys still caught lots of BIG fish.  Top water flies like Boogle Bugs and Shenandoah Chuggers brought many fish to hand.  We have been able to catch many of these fish on poppers even in May!  Finally,  flies like Bart-O Minnows and Murdich Minnows caught lots of big fish as well.   In the colder early season we fish most patterns slow and low.   Poppers should be popped and rested about 6 seconds before the next pop.  If you see a fish under the popper DO NOT POP IT!  Let it sit and just wiggle it’s legs.  The fish will eat it if you can be patient.  We are scheduling our pre-spawn dates for 2011 right now and the dates will be May 7th to May 15th 2011.  Call the shop to reserve your trip.