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I went out to the lake the following
Tuesday, Thursday and Friday noon
hours, after having such a fantastic
catching day on Saturday. The weather
was about the same but it was noon
instead of early morning. I went to the
same general area that I had been to on
Saturday. I could see fish near
the bank in the spawning mode. I thought
that I could maybe repeat the
fishing of the previous Saturday. In my
dreams.
I started off with the Streamer nymph and
a Marabou Miss. The fish would not even
look at them. I fished them slow and shallow,
slow and deep, fast, jerky and other combinations
of things that might happen. The fish would
not even look at the flies. I changed to a
Bead Body Minnow and a Thief. I thought that
maybe darker flies would work (these are all
in Ricks Favorite crappie flies in the panfish
archives). No such luck. The fish
would not even turn to look at them.
This happened on Tuesday. I just pitching the
flies at them. I changed to a perch-a-bou and
a Baby Doll to try. I finally caught a few fish
on the perch-a-bou, but only when the fly was
allowed to drop. No action just falling. It also
had to be about 15 feet from the bank and away
from where I was standing. I got 4 fish over the
lunch hour.
I came back on Thursday hoping to do a little
better than I had on Tuesday. I stayed with
the Perch-a-bou and the Baby Doll, as they
were the flies on the line. I tried the 'let
the fly drop' thing first and nothing happened.
I then slowly started to retrieve the fly and
had a fish hit it when I started to bring it
up out of the water. The place I was fishing
has a shoreline with about a 60 degree angle
to it. When the fly would get near there and
I would start to bring it up the fish would
hit it. It did not matter what fly I used it
had to be retrieved deep, slow and the raised up
as it got close to shore. I caught fish on 12
different flies, just to see what might work.
I did feel better as I was getting the fish
to bite better than I had on Tuesday. I did
see a lot of carp cruising along the shore. I
changed to a woolly bugger and cast to these
fish but had no luck. I still have not
figured out how to catch carp consistently.
I went back out to the lake on Friday for the
noon hour. My wife went with me to just watch
and see what might happen. She got to meet
one of the old geezers that was out there. He
told me that he had not caught very many
fish. I started doing the same things that
I had before and nothing worked. I switched
flies and retrieves. I tried everything that
I could think of.
The whole time I was doing this my wife was
telling the old geezer that she was bad luck
for me. Every time that she came with me she
said that I had trouble catching fish. I had
a Streamer Nymph on and had cast it out. I
decided to change the fly and was reeling in
the line while keeping some tension on it with
my fingers so it would be smooth on the reel.
I had moved the fly about 5 feet when a crappie
streaked up and hit the fly. This fish
was hooked very deep.
I decided that if it worked once then I should
try it again. I would have the fly just under
the water and bring it in very smoothly, moving
about 2 inches a second. The fish would flash
from underneath the fly and smash it. I was
curious so I had the old geezer cast with a
tube jig with just a hook in it and retrieve
the same way. The fish smashed that rig also.
It still surprises me some that the fish change
that much from day to day. But that it was keeps
it interesting also. I think I appreciate the fish I
caught during the week more than those on the weekend.
I had to work a little more to get them. I also
know that I am blessed to have so many fertile
ponds to go to. This ponds produce fish in huge
numbers.
I did prove to my wife that I could catch
fish while she was around.
Hope you an get out on the water. ~ Rick ziegeria@grm.net
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