I suppose I should really blame Jim. All his talk of monster Gills on Green Weenies on the Fly Tying board. Went and got me all excited, so I tied up about 5 green weenies, and on the suggestion of the pages listing teh recipe I also tied up some pink ones. I decided that since I had the stuff, might as well tie up some yellow and blue ones too. Heck, why not. Used a whole pack of 25 hooks on weenies.
Well, I took em out and tried em. I thought things were going well too. I kept getting hits and I was catching a few of those that hit. I seemed to be getting some short strikes though. I was having fun and thinking Jim was right, except my gills and red ears were smaller, being Omaha and all.
Today I was plying the weeds with them again when I decided that maybe I would go ahead and try one of my favorie buggers too. I tied it on and cast back where I had been fishing and on the 3rd cast a nice 13" Bass nailed it and tried his hardest to wrap up every weed in the area. He got into some too, since I was using the 3wt. Well, I unhooked him and after I stopped shaking I cast right back into the same area, you know, just to see, and WHAM!! another hit. Well, that one was all of 17" and probably close to 3 lbs! It was FAT. I thought I was gonna lose that one, but I brought him to hand and let him go also.
Right back into the same hole and out comes a really nice bull gill. This old boy is starting to grin! Once more and out comes an 8" Bass. That did it for the fishing as it was time to come back to work. Can’t complain too much, though. I am still grinning!
Anyway, the point for me is 1 Crappie on a green weenie and nothing on the pink, yellow or blue ones, and then 3 bass and a nice gill on my favorite secret bugger. PTOOEY on them weenies. They got nothin’.
Don
(Okay, so I HAVE been having a lot of fun and catching some smaller gills, red ears and bass on the weenies in other lakes this week, but nothing like I had today!!)
Well, yesterday, thanks to Allans
kindness of sending me an assortment of
flourescent chartruese chenille, my buddy
and I caught many bluegills and a few red
eared sunfish on green weenies. I did try
a few other flies that normally produce
here, but the green weenie was by far the
most productive. I too caught several bass,
all on a green weenie.G Warm regards,
Jim
I only tied up two green chartreuse (or fluorescent green) to try out first. Haven’t had them in the water yet but I intend to over on the canal at my sister’s house near Lake Jackson maybe this weekend. I’ve been trying to take it easy on gas consumption with availability and cost even before Katrina so across city to my sister’s I can do and around the city. Gasoline stations are fast running dry here in Sebring right now and the lines are long. I don’t know when the stations will be resupplied but it might paralyze everything until then.
I seemed to be getting some short strikes though.
What works for me sometimes is to shorten the tail of flies a little when I get short bites or switch to a smaller size fly.
Robert B. McCorquodale
Sebring, FL
“Flip a fly”
[This message has been edited by dixieangler (edited 01 September 2005).]
For the most part, I’m fishing them
unweighted on a 5’leader with a floating
line. Action is fairly fast and many casts
result in multiple strikes before getting
a hookset. I’m averaging about an hour to
the fly before they chew the tail off.G
Warm regards, Jim
I also was fishing them on a taught line with a slow hand twist retrieve.
By the way. I went back to the same place today, and I caught a good dozen Bass on my bugger and 4 Crappie for good measure. I put on the waders for lunch today and stood waist deep in the weeds and fished the ones beyond that are submerged except for the tips.
The bugger that is producing is:
Dark Blue Marabou tail with 2 folded over mylar strands. (looks like 4 after being tied in.)
Ice Chenille body. (Light Purple thread with pearl flash in it.)
Barred Tan/brown hackle
Copper Wire rib.
This week I have fished at Zorinski, Wherespan and Walnut Creek. Zorinski was producing the Gills and red ears. They were mostly small, but I was only fishing shallow by the Handicap Pier. Wherespann was where I was catching mostly Bass with a few good sized (the legal 10 inch size) Crappie in the mix. Walnut Creek produced a couple of Gills and a couple of Crappie and 2 hits that were so hard they broke off the fly with the first strike, and I didn’t even have to try to set the hook.
I was fishing off the Island at Walnut Creek and to the north of the Boat launch at Wherespann.
I can get to Zorinski or Wherespann in five minutes at lunch time, so I go there usually. I have only fished Walnut Creek about 4 times since I moved here in 1997. Of those times, only twice have been really serious. (Had the kids along the other times. ) I am taking my oldest fishing on Monday morning, so I am trying to decide where to go for sure. Walnut Creek is definately toward the top of the list. (Two rivers is the other contender.) Wanna try and hook up on Monday at Walnut Creek?
Don,
I’d love to meet up! I am taking my father-in-law out to Walnut Creek first thing tommorow morning. He isn’t very mobile so I am going to put him on the island with a can of bait. And I will be fly-fishing in that general vicinity. If you and your oldest come out you will find me there.
Can’t complain too much, though. I am still grinning!
) I am taking my oldest fishing on Monday morning, so I am trying to decide where to go for sure. Walnut Creek is definately toward the top of the list. (Two rivers is the other contender.) Wanna try and hook up on Monday at Walnut Creek?