Went to Berryessa this morning in search of the ol' brown fish. I took off to my normal milk run of smallie spots, and the day was going pretty slow. I told my buddy that we should go explore some stuff I don't normally hit so off we went. We started to catch a few on cranks but as soon as the sun broke out, that bite died. We switched to plastics and began to get bit again. I got a little tick on my drop shot and set into a pretty good fish. That pretty good fish became a REALLY good fish as soon as it felt some pressure. After a while it gave up and came to see me in the boat. It was the biggest smallie I ever got and he ended up going 5.1 on my scale. We ended up running more south and finished out the day fishing around places I hadn't fished before. We would have had about a 15 pound bag with that big brown fish in the bag.

January has been the best fishing month I've ever had. I got my best ever largemouth earlier this month at 10.57, and today I stuck my personal best smallie. I wish every month could be January.



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