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I've been experimenting with soft baits. I used a small "creme" worm to catch this bass.
Bill
bass on a soft bait
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I've been experimenting with soft baits. I used a small "creme" worm to catch this bass.
Bill
Nice! Good job on breaking the mold and experimenting!
David Merical
St. Louis, MO
Good job Bill! I've done similar and now with Crazy Glue and hoks with bent shanks you can get that combo to work for a good while as long as you take care with the casts. Years back my favorite bait for big bass was the old Uncle Josh's Pork Eel and to simulate that for the fly rod, I use a Black maribou Wooley Worm tiped with a five inch or longer strip of Chamois colored black with a magic marker. In fact I carry a pack of these Chamois eels in various lengths in my Bass flies along with a couple of markers and can mix and match with flies such as a Clouser, or Wooley!
Good Fishing,
Chuck S (der Aulte Jaeger)
"I've traveled a long way and some of the roads weren't paved"
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Chuck, I haven't bought a pork rind, other than the crunchy kind, in many years, but I seem to remember they had some little skin eel strips you could just hang on a hook. Have you tried that, of course you don't have to lug around a jar when using chamois.
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Nice job!!!!
Bill--
See if you can find a copy of Jack Ellis's book, Bassin' with a Fly Rod. Lot's of good info on techniques that utilize conventional baits, especially soft plastics.
If it swims and eats, it'll eat a fly.
Very nice! I'm headed up in several weeks to the Wolf River in beautiful Fremont Wisconsin. It's been a traditional minnow deal on lots of running white bass. Now due to my new found love of the fly rod I'm bringing some things to see how fly fishing for them will work. I've been making this trip for many years and have never seen a fly rod on the river. Hey, who knows, maybe i can discover something new. I'll report on the good, the bad or the ugly later.
Originally Posted by Bluegill222
... or "Fly Tying and Fly Fishing for Bass and Panfish" by Tom Nixon. Ellis pays homage to Nixon as the pioneer of this method in his book. Both books are very good resources.
Found "Bassn with a Fly Rod" by Jack Ellis. It's ordered and on the way. Isn't Amazon.com great!
Attention Oregonians. This bait would be considered illegal in most Oregon streams.
Tim
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