Well we don't have the ice thing here at all and the crappie in the winter are very deep and I really don't do much fishing in the winter, but about Feb with a little luck the LMB and Crappie will move shallow and I intend on troll motoring down the back flipping my fly from one side to the other covering lots of water that way. I tried that out yesterday with my super duper $20 Walmart rig and it was a great way to fish for next spring.Originally Posted by Joe Valencic
Yes sometimes they are just there and ready to hit. Sometime here if I want to just have some fun there is a couple of spots I know during the late spring and summer where they hold and I can go out for 1-1 1/2 hours and catch 15 or more bass. Now that I am starting to fly fish I am even more interested in doing that with the fly rod.
You must have had some kind of good battle using that 1 wt. rod and my pan is to get probably a 6 wt. first for all around fishing and then later add maybe a 3 wt. With the wind here and sometimes needing to make longer cast the 6 wt. is what I am leaning to.
I guess I spent way too much on all my casting and spinning gear to expect the wife to be happy and let me get very many fly rods, but at least I can probably use the same reel on both rods.
At almost 60 fly fishing has given me something new and exciting to do.
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