Thanks, gerri. Well, I put the Skip Morris Predator in the water and it swims okay with the floating line and my 9 foot leader but I didn't get any fish this afternoon on a Damsel nymph (I can almost always count on a fish biting a Damsel nymph on a lake or canal) or the Predator. I tried a lot of different patterns. The LMB (Largemouth Bass) were chasing minnows and I did manage to break in my new 5wt. on a little one pound LMB that went for a #6 minnow crease fly. It was the only fish of the afternoon even though I got a lot of bites on the minnow crease. The wind was very bad after a weather front had moved through last night so the fish were not very cooperative.