I went to my local pond this morning and finally caught fish, enough fish to feel like a fly angler again lol. Small panfish yes but fish is fish darn it (bluegill, tilapia and shad (?)).
I caught them on my 3wt and I even got a good bend from one of the tilapias.
It had been a long time since I caught fish so you can imagine why I am so excited.
I caught them on a San Juan fly, corn fly (thank you guys) and a fly I tied last night, I’m sure somebody has tied something like that but I don’t know the name. Here are some pix of today’s catches.
Well, that’s what I thought at first but it looked more like a tiny carp but I’m sure that’s not what it is either. They swim in large schools and just attack anything that comes close to them…still trying to figure out what those are. The other ones are tilapias. Man, I’m just happy I’m catching fish again.
Later
Haha, no Sonny, I didn’t see teeth on that little one but those are hungry fish that’s for sure. I even caught a smaller one on the corn fly very aggressive little buggers.
I don’t think it is a tilapia but then again who knows what is in that pond I have seen a very odd looking bottom feeder. It’s not your regular aquarium plecostomus it looks weird.
There is another fish we caught at G-Park in AZ, nobody could tell for sure what it was either.
Thanks for sharing the pictures of the results of your outing to the pond. Your post is a good reminder that catching panfish, crappies, etc. can be great fun with the fly rod. Hope you are able to get back out to the pond this weekend.
Thanks a lot owlman, unfortunately I caught a really bad cold last weekend and couldn’t go out there but I will hit the water this Sunday and will share my catches.
I was ready to go crazy due to lack of fishing when I moved to SoCal but you guys and this great website have helped me through these hard times.
THANKS EVERYBODY!
