Allimax, I'd be glad to post some pictures or talk to you about what we use to catch them down here. I don't see why the same techniques and baits we use won't work anywhere in the country. I have my jigs made by an old gentlemen with a zillion years of experience catching smallmouth's. He has a almost 9 pounder on his wall and a dozen over 7. Granted not all were caught on his jigs, but he had to know something about them brown fish or he wouldn't have ever caught them on anything. I believe Carl Boaz may be the best kept secret in hair jig building there is. I think his company name is Tournament Jigs or something like that. He may have a website. It'd be worth looking him up. Red, I'm giving some long hard thoughts lately to going down and getting checked in at JP Coleman SP and just fishing for a few days (nights! LOL). I love all of Pickwick but there is somethings special about the beauty of the lower end that has always made me love fishing down there. I won a Smallmouth Inc. event down there a long time ago and ever since I have had a soft spot for the place. If you want to try to hook up down there we can do that, or you can meet me up on the McFarland end and we'll go see if we can't put some in the boat on the upper end. The good thing right now is that about anywhere you go on the main channel and stay in the current tossing hair jigs and a good trailer you can catch some nice fish. The art to doing it is the part that drives a lot of guys crazy. I am fanatical about my line size, jig head type, jig size (not just weight), rate of fall and speed of retrieve. When you figure all the little things that makes that jig look like a crawfish or bream you got it licked. The different flow rates of the river though means changing things around in your set up 2 or 3 times in a night or else you will think the fish just quiet biting. I'm no gift to the smallmouth world on all this. I'm still learning too, but I have eliminated an awful lot of wasted time by being willing to change on the fly. Give me a shout in the next week or two. I'm going back as often as I can.:wink
