Nice smallmouth. I spent 10hrs over on Kentucky Lake checking water clarity, ice, water temps, and depths.

Yea yesterday was an awful fishing day. Still had a good time with some good fishing buddies but I couldn't believe that 5 of us couldn't even buy a stocker trout in the Caney on Trout Mags. Normally the 8" trout become annoying you catch so many. Then we packed up to try Center Hill and was more of the same, I couldn't even get a bluegill out from under a boat dock on TM's. That sure was a pretty Smallie he caught. We got excited thinking he may have cracked a pattern we could try but to no avail. This weekend just had some tough fishing.

To make things better, it's going to get down to 5 degrees Thursday night to keep the water nice and cold this weekend so it should make for some more challenging fishing.