nice fish and flies Dave, things are starting to heat up out here in west central Iowa too!!!! Hope this cold snap won't back things up again.
Tim
nice fish and flies Dave, things are starting to heat up out here in west central Iowa too!!!! Hope this cold snap won't back things up again.
Tim
It was 37 degrees and raining yesterday during lunchtime, so I didn't get to fish then. But in between shuttling my kids around to various activities, I stopped by a public city pond and fly-fished from 7:30pm-8:15pm. Although it was still darned cold, I was surprised to find the water clarity on this pond had improved, and the fish were active!
In 45 minutes I landed 30 bluegills, 1 hybrid sunfish, and 1 largemouth bass. I was using a fly with silver mylar tubing for the body, a purple glass(or plastic?) bead-head, and chartreuse marabou tail.
David Merical
St. Louis, MO
silver, purple, and chartreuse??? is it legal to fish something with that color combo in Iowa?????lol
Good call! I agree its not a conventional color scheme.
The purple-ish colored beads are the only non-metal beads I've bought so far. I have metal ones, but I wanted the slower sink rate of the plastic/glass beads, and that part seems to be working just about right. Really, the bead color probably isn't important on this particular pattern.
The chartreuse tail on the silver mylar tubing body makes the fly nicely visible in the dingy waters, and cloudy / evening conditions I was fishing in. I will also say that I tied that chartreuse marabou short and spare. Just enought to get the fish interested.
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I fished a public pond during luch yesterday for bluegills, and ended up with 1 bluegill, 3 bass (on a different fly). Then I tried another pond after work, and couldn't catch ANYTHING...except I rescued this giant crayfish from some fishing line he was tangled in:
David Merical
St. Louis, MO
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