After a long spring of high water and unfishable flows, the temps are breaking 90 and the rivers are clearing up. And the smallmouth are starting to look up. By far, my favorite kind of fishing is floating a beautiful smallmouth river in the Blue Ridge Mountains and searching likely looking haunts with topwater bugs for big smallmouth bass. And that's exactly what we'll be doing for the next 3-4 months. I've spent several days in the last few weeks guiding groups of kids on a