Hi All,
I have had a very poor summer since this spring. Did great in the spring.
The question is what will work now?
What time of day do you fish? How deep? Patterns? Where can the fish be found? Etc.?
Thanks and regards,
Gandolf
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Hi All,
I have had a very poor summer since this spring. Did great in the spring.
The question is what will work now?
What time of day do you fish? How deep? Patterns? Where can the fish be found? Etc.?
Thanks and regards,
Gandolf
Here in So Cal I am still catching some fish on topwater but that is slowing down now. For most of this year I have been using sparse flies tied on Wapsi fly tying jig hooks in 1/124 and 1/80 oz sizes. I just tie in a few strands of marabou and wrap the shank with marabou, dubbing, or peacock herl. I have put rubber legs on these but the presence of the legs does not seem to make a difference. I fish these under an adjustable indicator (bobber) to control depth. I tend to work shallow early and late and deeper mid-day. I get quite few bass doing this too, including some 3 and 4lb fish. I also use small wooly buggers on size 10 and 12 hooks, tied sparsely.
On my waters, the first three hours after sunrise and the last two before sunset have been best lately, but I do catch fish all day. If the pattern is consistant, the full moon this week will produce a weaker morning bite and a stronger late afternoon/early evening bite.
i went out yesterday and they were still looking up. used this
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...luegillbug.jpg
Still catching enough on top to keep me doing it, but with a soft hackle or ant dropper. The dropper is catching the majority of fish at the moment and it won't be too long before I'm back to soft hackles and small leech patterns for the rest of the season (season defined as the time left before the water gets too solid to get through with a fly :)).
I've had good luck using Orvis's epoxy minnow size 12 in red. Lately I've been experimenting with olive over white Myakka minnow in the same size with similar results. I guess what works in your area would depend on what the fish are feeding on and what you have to do to get the fly in the strike zone.
I caught about 10 tonight on a white woolie bugger. For bluegill, I tie mine without the hackle up the body. Just white chenille and white maribou featehrs for the tail. The one I was using tonight was about a size 10 or 8, can't remember what size I tied that one on.
It has been cool here the past few days. A slow retrieve worked best.
Jeff
Kentucky.
check out my posts from a week or two back, I got a lot of great advice on fall patterns.
depending on conditions, most trout flies will work great, I like to tie the scrap pile flies for gills, (hate to waste stuff plus its fun to see weird stuff working)
Hey Tailingloop, where are you catching fish? I live in Canoga Park and the only water near my (that I know of) is Lake Balboa but I haven't had a lot of luck there. I've been catching small tilapias.
Hey Norm that scorpio fly looks great, what type and size of hook do you tie it on?
Later
Martin,
I'm in San Diego. I fish Otay most often. Lake Barrett when I can get tickets. All of the other local lakes like Sutherland, Hodges, Dixon, Poway, Murray, Loveland and El Capitan are good for bass and bluegill too.
I just received a 2wt. from a board member on the ultralite board and I used a #10 popper and a #10 peacock estaz wooly bugger for 3 hours..
http://ultralightflyfishing.yuku.com...avid-Gale.html
Jim