HenryG wrote:
Looks like they are spawning females loaded with eggs and you feel proud? 🇺🇸😶👎 please read Spirits post today about smallies!!!!!
I agree with not liking smallies being kept especially with big fat spawn filled bellies. To my knowledge most smallie waters have a hard time keeping a vibrant population. For this reason I never keep smallies with spawn bellies. Even during the regular part of the year I keep smallies only once or twice a year. They’re just such an admirable fish , such great fighters. I’d like to see them live and prosper rather than get kept. Most guys I know never keep them.