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Adventures in "trad" fishing.
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Back on the board for 2015!
Took my son to a nearby pond and we both got our first fish of the year on flies. I was determined to land a fish with a fly that I used the deer hair I killed this past season with a bow. Landed about 9 decent sunfish with 2 different fly patterns that use deer hair. Still no luck with the bucktail clousers.
Little man with the bass he caught on a bluegill spider he tied himself.
My first fish of the year on a fly. Gotta start somewhere.
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Well campers, I just returned from a fabulous vacation in beautiful Thailand. I took my fly rod to try and catch a few fish with it. First let me tell you that we were fishing in stocked fishing ponds. These are fairly small, something like 3 to 7 acres, and are set up for fishing. I knew this going in.
It is very like hunting exotics in a high fence here (which you know I have done plenty of). The fish were plentiful, but are fished for almost daily. You have to use artificial baits. So if you knew what you were doing (like our very experienced guide did) we had a lot of success, but I didn't see many of the other people fishing doing very well. That being said, high bank fishing was a blast and we caught some awesome fish. Perhaps not something a purist would be interested in....but it pegged the fun meter for me.
The really big ones, I was told I could not even try with my fly rod as the smallest fish in the pond was like 30 pounds....but I was able to fish for a catch a good number of the smaller fish in the ponds were they were.
Since this is a fly fishing thread, I will post up a couple pics of fish on caught on my fly rod.
My 3 friends started out with spinning tackle, but when they saw how much fun I was having, they all took a turn (or several) with my fly rod and caught fish. A blast.
A special thanks to Scott for talking me off the ledge when I had equipment issues the night before the flight, turned out, they cut my whole leader off and put on heavy 60 lb test....which had to be changed after 2 or 3 fish, as they have teeth and pull really hard.
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Long years ago I lived up on lake Bob Sandlin.
I decided to catch the lake record for fly fishing for every differant kind of fish in the lake.
The spotted, sand and black bass were easy. I added a couple of differant kinds of bream in a hurry also.
Crappie was a little harder but finally mamaged one of those but could not manage a cat fish.
On hot summer afternoon I was running across the lake about a hundred yards from the dam when I hit something.
I stopped the boat to see that the water was alive with channel cats feeding on top.
The grass hoppers were flying off the dam and I guess they could make it about a hundred yards before they gave out and fell on the water.
They cats were swimming around with their mouths open scooping them up.
I caught several, the best being right at 4 pounds.
All the others have been bested but that one is still the lake record from back in the 90s
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It was mostly a big all black fly. Big furry body with a bit of a tail...kind of comet like. Also used (and lost) ones with a feather body, one brown the other red. They sank slowly. I would cast and then wait until the fly was as deep as it would go, then strip in a little line and let settle back down. When they hit it, there was no doubt, we all had the little reel handle clobber us when the fish was stripping line before you knew it was happening.
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