5 Things Every Warmwater Flyfisherman should do--Make it 10,

[Robert McMahan]

1.Sight fish for carp.
2.Learn to tie your own flies.
3.Buy and fish from a float tube.
4.Turn someone else on to the game.
5.Fish for bedding Bluegill and release 'em all.

[Robert McMahan]

Oops, forgot to say "add your own 5 or 10", of course.

[nowindknots]

1. Smash all barbs.
2. Fish for LMB at night.
3. Keep a few bluegill for dinner occasionally.
4. Win the respect of local ranchers.
5. Get a 2wt or lighter rod.

Jim

[William Fitzgerald]

Sorry Robert this year I'm thinking of killing every bluegill I catch in my ponds--I have too many. The bass and the kids cant keep up with the over supply.
I could go back to restock the big city park pond--the police caught me doing that at night one year.
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Bill



[This message has been edited by William Fitzgerald (edited 21 March 2005).]

[nowindknots]

Robert, I think I know exactly what you meant with your #5. If I am correct the sentiment is shared and respectfully acknowledged.

Bill that does not at all mean that I disagree with you.

Jim

[This message has been edited by nowindknots (edited 21 March 2005).]

[lee s]

1. Take some kids fishing.
2. Consume only mid-sized fish....BG's are best IMHO.
3. Pester bass only in on top....or at least in the top 1' of water.
4. Finish G-kid's rod.
5. Take some kids fishing!
......lee s.

1) Cap, T-shirt, shorts, old sneakers, cheap fanny pack.
2) Short 3wt fly rod (6?6? to 7?6? - borrowed if necessary) with a moderate parabolic action, very most basic of reels, weight forward line to match, 6 foot leaders and spool of light tippet. Six inch forceps with scissors carried on a string looped around your neck.
3) One dozen Woolly Buggers, Olives to Brown in like 8s and 10s.
4) One six foot nylon stringer, rolled and stuffed into a pocket of your shorts. Keep ?em if you want, give ?em back if you?d rather.
5) Belt carried canteen and crackers and cheese (or jerky) in a Ziploc in the fanny pack.
6) One small tumbling stream teeming with Gills, Green Sunfish, Longear and the like, turtles, Smallmouth Bass, Suckers and that oft overlooked but oh so dear Rock Bass.
7) 8 Hours.
9) Big slabs of boulders scattered along the stream to crawl upon, dry out a little and ingest what?s going on.
10) Killer Sunset

[nowindknots]

Hey Dad'sGnat, welcome aboard!

Jim

[ohiotuber]

1) Thank GOD for what we are enjoying.
2) Take a child.
3) Leave the surroundings cleaner than when you arrived.
4) Share our knowledge & equipment.
5) Learn something new each trip.
Mike

1) Always, always, ALWAYS spray on some tick/chigger juice before you take your trek away from the bridge access where you parked.
2) See #1.
3)Blindfold & kidnap some Trout-only snoot you probably know at least once a year; remove his blindfold only after the afore-mentioned trek. I suppose you ought to spray him down with the bug juice as well.
4) Be prepared. Even just a half-decent WW stream has at least 1 species of bass (maybe 31/2), 2-3 species of Sunfish (maybe 6), Catfish(1-3), Gar(1-3) and Carp. OWN some flies, and NOT just Wooly Buggers; you need arrows in your quiver to fish different depths & different sizes.
5) Unlike yours truly, arrange your life so that you actually CAN go fishin more often.
Cary