Fly fishing, actually ANY fishing, has been extremely tough the last couple of weeks. Let me rephrase that....the CATCHING has been tough!

No matter...a few fish are caught, and this makes any trip worthwhile.
I fly-fished for an hour or so on Saturday during a family get-together at a small campground lake. I managed a couple of diminutive crappies, had a bass unhook itself as I was lifting it from the water, and was lucky enough to entice my "target fish" for the day...a carp. All fish were caught on either a hex nymph or white woolly bugger.

This is the smallest carp I've caught so far on a fly rod...I estimate it was probably about 1.5 lbs....maybe 2.


Sunday night around dusk (and after, while it sprinkled), I fished a sponge popper, and a white woolly bugger (separately), and managed a crappie, a bluegill, and 3 largemouth bass. Two of the bass were nice fish, over 16".