A new love of destroyed flies
Well I finally beat the rain and got out to a local lake, about 25 acres, to chase a few bream and yearling bass. I caught around 20 or close to it. I had several in the 9 - 10 inch range. Most on a black Carter Dragonfly Nymph and a small woolybugger with oversized hackle. Several on a grass hopper pattern.
I have included a photo of the grasshopper, because of a little wakening I had. When I pulled in the next to last yearling bass and the deer hair overwing & head along with the turkey tail fiber legs fell off the grasshopper. My first thought was I am not a very good flytyer. Then I thought I have been blessed to have put together an artifical bug that attracted enough fish to destroy it. I'm taking the grasshopper to the body shop new legs, wing and head. I may get out the kevlar thread this time and use a little more CA underneath.
I hope you had as much fun today as I have so far.
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