i’ve been invited on a float fishing trip for smallmouth in virginia late june/early july. i know more about quantum physics than i know about smallmouth fishing anywhere, especially virginia. (can you get there from mississippi) the trip is more than i can afford and i don’t want to go if that is a bad time or not a good place (don’t know where, southern part i’m sure) anybody got and advice?
I have fished smallmouth bass in VA on the New River and also on the Roanoke. If you have a chance to fish the New River go for it for sure! Smallmouth bass are great fun to catch!
The time of year should be very good.
Can you tell us what water you will be fishing?
Bob
thanks, don’t yet know exactly where, just a guided float trip.
You won’t regret fishing for smallies. I believe you’ll be very pleasantly surprised.
Vic
Once upon a time the big decision was either to drive 20 minutes to the Potomac or 20 minutes to the Shenandoah for the better smallmouth fishing; which use to produce some of those a bass-a-cast 2 hours in the river and 1 hour in the bar evenings. Sometimes, later in the summer when it was better just to enjoy the upper 70’s water temps in the 90+ heat & 90+ humidity; just sat on a rock in the river & let the fly drift downstream, which inevitably led to another bass on the line without even fishing it…but then the decision was when would I have to reel it in to release it 
Hi
The Rappahannock River in eastern Va is really good for Smallmouth. There seems to be a ton of them in the 11" range, bigger ones tend to be scarcer. However, an 11" Smallie on a light rod can be pretty darn exciting.
I’ll be visiting my family in Hampton Va from the middle of June to the middle of July, so perhaps we could hook up.
Cheers,
Dave
Phuket, Thailand
well, i’m ashamed to admit, but i dont know all that much about fishing for specifically smallmouth. largemouth, yes, but not smallmouth. i still catch a good amount of them here though, and i can tell you there isn’t any difference between catching them here and anywhere else i’ve fished like michigan, ohio, pennsylvania, maryland. so thats one detail you DONT have to worry about…
edit: just realized my profile doesn’t say it, i live in virginia.
Hey DDRRedneck500,
I think fishing for smallmouth is just fishing where they are. :mrgreen: …and maybe using slightly different flies.
Where do you live in Virginia? I’m from Hampton, but I’ve lived on an island in southern Thailand for the past 16 1/2 years.
Cheers,
Dave