This coming year of chasing smallies I think I'm going to go oldschool and use some nymph/wets rigs. That thread on Czech nymphing for bass got the wheels turning and I really enjoy nymph fishing to begin with and aint' that's what it's all about.

At the end of last season we had some spectacular success with some handtied jigs (spin gear), simple rabbit strip craw imitations that flat killed in our local streams. I think it's time to tie up some for the longrod and some nice "hackle-y" wet flies to swim along with them.

Now if the winter storms would kindly move on out & spring would hurry along it's merry way I could give it a go.