Marny Bluff Smallies

I took Luke and Rodney Efferson smallmouth fishing this evening for a couple of hours after work. We got bait in the Center Farm Cove within the first 3 or 4 throws of the Cracker. And we didn't just get bait, we got the most absolutely perfect heavenly threadfins you've ever seen! This is God's finest smallmouth bait ever (with the possible addition of crawdads and hellgrammites). We armed ourselves with the usual rig: Shimano Stradic 3000 FJ on a 7' medium light GLoomis rod spooled up with 20lb PowerPro and a 4-5' 8lb Seaguar fluorocarbon leader and a Gamakatsu or Owner circle hook size matched to our bait. We started our search by fishing the gravelly transition flat just immediately up river from Eagle Bluff. The very first minnow in the water scored Luke a gorgeous 4# bronzeback! I quickly followed suit and boated a scrappy 1.5 pound smallie. Both of these fish were working the flat in about 6' of water adjacent to good deep water.