found a few bass pics, much more to come

I know where that last bass came from, Dude!  That's a good spot...  The Smallies stack up there too sometimes.

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Nice fish Blitz. Didn't want to start a new thread, so I'll just post a few of my own from Monday on the Mohawk right here. I'm finally starting to find some bigger smallies, but I'm waiting for Jimmy to show me his hot spots.  The river was muddy with a pretty strong current on Monday, so it was pretty tough going.

Blitz, I think the bigger smallies are farther out west towards Amsterdam. Sometimes I catch a decent one by accident while going for walleyes. But in my limited experience, most smallies between locks 6 and 8 average on the smaller side. I am still searching though.

Here's the beans...  Rexford, baby...  REXFORD!
 
The run between Lock 7 and the Alplaus Kill/Freeman's Bridge holds bruisers smallies... I haven't fished it the season at all (boat issues) but I typically slam the stretach all summer.  The cliffs and old Erie Canal aquaduct remains at the Rexford Yach Club at sweet.  Big lead and giant tube/squid jigs are the ticket.
 
Trolling short and fat deep-diving cranks will also get you plenty of Smallies and a few Walters in the mix.
 
For the shore-bound guys- the whole Lock 7 complex is awesome.  I fished it several times a week as a kid, and from the reports I see- the fishing is even better now!  Find big bass and pike above the dam in the crescent pool with anything weedless.  You can fish it in several places from shore, or walk the bikepath a short ways upriver and take and of the trails on the right to the water.  They are all good.
 
Or walk over the downstream lock gate (there is a walkway) and fish the far side of the downstream outlet of the lock.  You can stand right back in there and get good casts right below the dam.  Walleye and smallies.  Has anyone seen this walleye that came out of Lock 7 last week?
 

 
Same dude got this Tiger a few weeks back at Lock 7 too... 
 

 
 
Largies?  Reel Force knows where they are on the Mohawk!  Get closer towards Scotia and fish the area where the river splits at the Western Gateway Bridge/Jumpin' Jacks.  The massive weedbeds near the Glen Sanders Mansion have bucketheads (and at least one sweet pike) in them.
 
Launching at the Freeman's Bridge ramp is a friggin' CIRCUS on weekend, so I usually put in at the ramp right above Lock 7 and just make the ride.
 
The Freeman's ramp has limited parking and seems to attract the least competant boat owners in the Capital Region.  I have pretty much given up on that ramp except for weekdays when the yahoo's are working.
 
 

Below...  Over the downstream-side lock doors and on the open river side below the dam...
 
By the way, another killer shorefishing spot is on the other side (Vischer's Ferry) of the dam where when it is flowing nicely you can cast to the eddy formed by the warm water discharge from the NiMo plant.
 
Whern I am there with my boat I typically fish that side the most- cruising right up into the natural creek and bedrocks waterfalls that the dam is built around.  There are PILES of smallmouth in there.  Most are 2lbs and up.
 
The best lures I have found for them are heavier finesse jigs/ "jig and pig" combos...  If your trailer looks like crawfish claws then you are doing it right...  Ha!  I think those fish gorge on them around there...