Lewis Smith Lake

We never really fished a lot.

And then we started fishing in the wintertime, and the fishing was a million times better, like, at Smith Lake where we grew up.

And so I pretty much quit hunting for a while until I made it, you know, professional fisherman.

Then I kinda started back hunting a little bit.

I got, I got one more question for you.

All right.

I know you grew up fishing Smith Lake, and, uh, but if there was one lake that you could, like, that was it, what would be the lake that you would fish the rest of your life?

St. Lawrence River, New York City is small.

Does it matter whether they believe it or not? If they're, if they're saying this, are we okay with that? Does that make sense? It's, it's like Garland Judger.

He did the same thing when they wanted to build that, um, the special tax rates and tax privileges for up on Smith Lake.

Mm-hmm.

And he was proposing that these businesses and, you know, that, the, the bed and breakfast on a cliff with 28 chairs out front-

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... you know, they were, they got special tax cuts.

The people in Cullman and Smith Lake just totally obliterated that idea, and he went back and actually rescinded his own bill that passed the year before.

He...

I live down here on the coast, so I'm three hours from any of the Coosa River or anything like that.

But those dudes, I mean, they can go to Smith Lake one day, then go to Guntersville, and then go to Lay Lake.

and then it's like it's the place so if you're looking to I mean it's got everything every type of fishing you could ever you got like Martin so I would definitely focus in that region and I mean as far as advice goes for fishing and

do what you

But some lakes just they get a different gene pool or different nutrient load or something.

But that's weird

because you've got Smith Lake that's like healthy and got big fish in it.

They're huge.

And it's, uh, I'm, I'm with you.

Like I've gone up places like Smith Lake and even like Guntersville and stuff like that.

And the water that they consider stained is clear here.

Um, especially, I don't know if you've spent any time on Smith, but like I joke with all my buddies.

Like you don't need sonar if you're up on Smith Lake because you can look down and just see fish in 10 feet of water.

You can be like, hey, there's a bass on that falling down tree.

Like, let's go drop something down to him.

But I see it a lot on the Tennessee River, and I'm sure it works on all the highland impoundments.

Smith Lake, it works really well.

This works on Smith Lake year-round.

Like, you can take a 4.5 true bass on Smith Lake, and everyone throws the minnows for them, the socks and the freeloaders and whatever.

But the 4.5, any kind of swimbait, could be a high take.

But those spotted bass love a swimbait when they're actively feeding on herring.

It's going to be, it's not going to be kicking, right? So just kind of keep it logical, you know, for having to fish it really deep.

If I'm one, a hollow body presentation, I might have 14. down.

September 19th.

So we actually went down to Smith Lake in Alabama.

Oh, fun.

A friend of ours has a cabin there.

Here's the great tie-in to this.

I always equate suspended fish to deep, clear lakes, deep, clear reservoirs, Smith Lake in Alabama, some of those highland reservoirs in Tennessee, lakes in California.

And I always thought like, well, there's the tie-in.

But, Logan, I've seen fish suspend in dirty freaking river water all the way to, you know, 200 foot and everything in between.