So I absolutely love smallmouth, and seeing that Summit Lake is only about 20 minutes from my house, I decided to give it a try. Well I left my fly rod at home because I wasn't planning on chasing trout. Of course I arrived to find trout all over the shallows. I caught my first coastal cutthroat which made me happy. It was my first fish of the day and it absolutely hammered a little 3" Reins Rockvibe Shad fished on a light jig head. Those coastal cutts fight much harder than the Bonneville cutts I'm used to catching. I also had rainbows smacking spinnerbaits and jerkbaits. I eventually started throwing a little 2" grub on a 1/16 oz jig head and the trout approved. Later in the day the smallmouth did too. Before that I caught a few smallies out in deeper water on a drop shot. I ended up fishing about four hours and caught 9 smallies, 5 rainbows and the one cutthroat. I lost count of how many fish I missed though. For whatever reason I was missing way more than I caught. It could be that the bass were all dinks. I talked to a home owner on his dock and he told me that the better smallmouth are at the other end where it's deeper and rockier. That might be a little tough to reach in a float tube with the boat launch the only access. Still, it was a fun lake and I'll be back.

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