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First Fish of 2015
After a long winter, which I wrote about here, I finally caught my first fish of 2015. It was a redbreast sunfish in a public park stream in the city of Lynchburg. I caught the fish on my lunch break.
The temperature was in the upper 50s, the water was 52F and slightly high, but not muddy despite recent rain. I caught it on a beedhead bugger, size 10, with moderate action imparted by me. The fish seemed to like the twitches, but they were all on the bottom, so I had to twitch it slowly to keep from raising the fly up in the water column. I hooked one other before I had to leave, but lost it at my feet. I got a lot more bites, my guess is they were biting the marabou tail.
I apologize for the poor photo, it was taken with a flip-phone, and I can barely see the image unless I pull it up on a computer.
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Happy fishing season!
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Waskeyc-
I'm sending you a PM.
George
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That's one!:D We should all try to post a pic of our first fish of the year on this thread.
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Beautiful fish, Waskeyc! That is a species we don't have in Iowa.
I got back from Spring Break, the local waters no longer have ice on them, so I got out and caught my first flyrod fish of 2015 yesterday.
45 Crappies, 19 Bluegills.
This was the first one, caught on the first cast:
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...psrmggkj2z.jpg
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Great way to break the spell of winter.
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The retention pond at work is starting to wake up. Green sunfish up to 5 or 6 inches. The big ones should get hungry soon...
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I got a few earlier on a spinner but today I made a side trip after the dump-run to a small park with a pond and convinced two bluegills to bite a brown foam spider before I hung it a tree and called it quits.
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I finally got out with my fly rod the other day. I was targeting large bream, but the LM bass would not leave it alone. I ended up with around 30 fish, mainly bass (most between 14-16 inches) with some large crappie (11-12 inches) and a few jumbo (12-13 inch bream). With the exception of dropping my walkie-talkie into the lake:(, it was an excellent way to start the season.
Jim Smith
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HUGE bream!!! I'd love to see THOSE pics! :)
Sounds like you really had an EXCELLENT day of fishing, Jim!
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Dave,
Here's a couple of pictures from one outing last year. I don't usually take my camera out in the kayak as it is fairly expensive and as you saw in my earlier posting, my dropping my walkie-talkie into the lake does not bode well for me taking my camera out there.
http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i1...s100/008-1.jpg
http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i164/Jimws100/005.jpg
I will freely admit that I am spoiled rotten when it comes to warmwater fishing. I live on a beautiful 50 acre lake that is loaded with fish and gets very little fishing pressure. 95% of the time I have the entire lake to myself out in my kayak and on any typical evening fishing for 2-3 hours, I'll average 30+ fish with at least 10-12 being this size. My personal best is 14 inches (twice) and I have an agreement with myself that it I catch one over 15 inches, I will buy a fiberglass replica of it.
Jim Smith