The gills are getting a little skittish and scarce with the cooler weather around here, but the white bass are getting frisky. Will they do?
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The gills are getting a little skittish and scarce with the cooler weather around here, but the white bass are getting frisky. Will they do?
I don't think it's ever too early to expose a kid to fishing (fly or otherwise), but 4 is a little young to expect much in terms of results. The trick is to get them to the water, then let their...
Only thing I might add would be a couple small pine squirrel leeches (think slumpbusters, but a tad smaller) to bump along the bottom for the redears. Bluegills love 'em too.
I think that'll get eaten. I've seen worse, usually clamped in my own vise :)
A person could always get in there with a pair of scissors and thin the hackle a little once it was wrapped, thus giving you a sparser collar while not damaging the feather. Just a thought.
But they got there. and a nice looking fly it is. Have you had a chance to get the fish's opinion yet?
But the shadow box with the ferns is really cool, though! Formal or not it's nice to be able to put a face with the name.
This is one of my favorite days of the year. Bring on the sun!
I think with that kind of start you can count on it.
I've found it works really well as a sub for bucktail on several types of streamers and it can be spun like wool for the heads on sculpin and other large profile flies. I haven't done much else with...
Only two hooks allowed here in Kansas, and that's usually enough to keep me tangled up most of the time :)
Okay, I was waiting for Ed to jump in, but I'll do it. Sounds like swamp witchery to me..... ribbit.
I'm using the FishPond Blue River pack and carry it as a sling pack most of the time. Stays where I put it, has plenty of room for what I need, isn't waterproof, but as John said a ziplock bag solves...
I like streamers, too, and yes, clousers and epoxy minnows and leeches and such often usurp the time I should be spending tying other things. Sometimes I just force myself to tie the other things,...
As the water has been cooling here, I've just been steadily downsizing my clousers and still catching crappies and white bass. As I said above, I usually go to soft hackles for gills when it gets...
I got mine back out this morning. Thanks again, Betty! The one I have in my Christmas ornament is red, but Betty also made one for us in pure white that was the centerpiece of my wife's bouquet at...
Cute!! Am going to go get M. to watch it right now.
Actually, Drew, you have more running water access than you know in N.E. Kansas, but you do have to hunt it down. The Corps of Engineers controls a surprising amount of waterway coming into their...
Mike, that's completely awesome! What a day that had to have been.
No, Drew, it's out at Hillsdale. Welcome aboard the board by the way! I spend a lot of time at Douglas SFL right there in your backyard, but rarely do I get to LaCygne.
Okay, get all logical on me, yes, the no fishing sign was posted by the county, which maintains the road and the bridge, and applies to the top of the bridge. That sign has been there for decades,...
I came upon these two signs the other day:
9411
So, I get that I'm not supposed to fish there, but who was the grinch that posted the sign telling me what I'll be missing?
Most of the smallmouth water I fish has walleye and/or sauger as well. In fact in most cases they were there first and the smallmouth introduced more recently. The smallies have not only taken root,...
soft hackles. They can be fished very slowly and have the subtle but constant motion that drives cool water panfish nuts.
Usually the tube is selling point (i.e., "what kind of a tube does this come with?"), but once in a while someone will come along and tell me they don't need the tube at all. I can generally talk...