Those Great Lakes Smallies are something else.
We were in the Door County peninsula when I saw a couple Smallies chasing along the rip rap of the shipping channel, so I bought a license and chased Smallies. The smallest I caught of the 15-16 I landed was in the 21" range. I think that was the wildest couple hours of fishing I've ever had. Never saw a dink fish. Out of that clear, cold water those fish fought like they were on some sort of drugs.