After a long winter, which I wrote about here, I finally caught my first fish of 2015. It was a redbreast sunfish in a public park stream in the city of Lynchburg. I caught the fish on my lunch break.

The temperature was in the upper 50s, the water was 52F and slightly high, but not muddy despite recent rain. I caught it on a beedhead bugger, size 10, with moderate action imparted by me. The fish seemed to like the twitches, but they were all on the bottom, so I had to twitch it slowly to keep from raising the fly up in the water column. I hooked one other before I had to leave, but lost it at my feet. I got a lot more bites, my guess is they were biting the marabou tail.

I apologize for the poor photo, it was taken with a flip-phone, and I can barely see the image unless I pull it up on a computer.

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Happy fishing season!