better check the fishing regs before you keep a mess of smallmouths for eating...Personally, i throw all the smallmouths back...but i keep all the others, largemouths, kentuckys, goggle eye (whatever you call them), walleye and clear water cats...but if my granddaughter caught a hansome smallmouth (like in the picture) i would have it mounted, also...for me, catching trout is like catching any other trash fish...i would throw them up on the bank for the varmits, except some folks would get excited...great pictures and a good lookin wading hole...
Save the planet, it is my favorite place to fish...