So. I’ve been fishing this pond for like a year now. I’ve caught plenty of bass, quite a few very, very large bluegill, one crappie and just yesterday I had a rock bass hit…get this…a rattletrap!!
I decided since I’d beed fishing with the flyrod exclusively there for about 9 months to switch things up and use the spinning rod on the pond. I was shocked to see a rock bass since none of them had hit any of my flies(that rack bass usually will hit) but I was quite impressed it went after a rattletrap of that size(the usual larger size you use for bass). Picture to come of the little devil.
I caught 5 bass with the first 5 casts!! They hit a crawfish pattern rattletrap.
I don’t know why but I am kind of enthralled with rock bass.
Nice to see there is another fly flinger brave enough to admit that we sometimes use other equipment. I frequently have the 6’ ultralight spinning rod in the canoe with the fly rod. While bass fishing I managed to get this silly perch to hit an F7 flatfish.
If it was not a catch & release lake, I would have cleaned it and sent it to JC. I caught enough of them for a decent meal for two people. Sorry, JC.
YOURE USING THE SPINNING ROD!?!?? :shock: TRAITOR!!:evil:
jk, i use the regular rod frequently too. i actually caught a bluegill on a big ol 6 inch rapala one time which confused the heck outa me…
Among the salt water flyrodders I know, a spinning rod is known as the “devil stick”! But every last one has a “devil stick” in their trunk for those days when it’s just too windy – including me.
BBW;
We catch quite a few ‘Black Perch" in the rivers here on both hoppers and soft hackles. A fun fish to catch and good eatin’ too!
I confess to carrying a spinning rod in my car but it hasn’t see water in 4 years!
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