In the mood?

[ncboman]

Saw this pic ...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v50/ncboman/Fishing/bream1warmwaterflyfisher.jpg

:)

ncboman

[Altjaeger]

Saw this pic ...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v50/ncboman/Fishing/bream1warmwaterflyfisher.jpg



ncboman

I am not a fly fisherman, but bet I could have a blast with my ultra lite spinning rod. Either a plastic bubble with a fly or a 1/16 ounce spinner bait should do the trick. Nice picture. :)

[ncboman]

dang, wish you were into flyfishing.

I have a ball with it. :)

ncboman

[dave-t.]

For some reason I fish mostly subsurface with the fly rod. I guess because I tied those flies the most as a kid. A wet black gnat, wooly worm, or other grey or olive wet fly, and any assorted nymphs is what I usually use for pan fish 90%.

When they are on the beds, anything with a red tail gets more attention.

It's not as dramatic as top water fishing, but I feel like I can get the bait right in their face with wet flies. That and quite a few times I noticed fish following the shadow of a popping bug or foam spider on the bottom of a creek or lake instead of them looking up on the surface at the bait.

[Altjaeger]

dang, wish you were into flyfishing.

I have a ball with it. :)

ncboman

Maybe in time. :)

Basically I am reinventing myself as a fisherman. After fishing heavily as a kid until 13, when I began hunting, fishing was abandoned for about 20 years. I fished heavily again for four years while stationed in Alabama then went overseas. There a war and a very demanding assignment left me time for 3 hunts in 3 years and that was about it.

After retirement a divorce and other things interrupted. So after another 20 years a new pursuit kayak fishing was discovered. Not sure whether the kayaking or the fishing is the real draw but I have been getting started again over the last year.

As you know there are few fly fishermen here but I am meeting a few so nothing is impossible. Fly and kayak fishing are a growing business along the Texas Gulf Coast.:)

[GF.]

That was always my favorite sanity break up in Minneapolis.... Get out around dusk and just hammer the sunnies on spongebugs.

You can also tie a wet fly on a dropper from the bend of the hook on the spongie, but doubles were never common and it was so much fun on top that I just decided it wasn't worth the wind knots :p

Come to think of it, that was one of the very few times I've ever been checked. A DNR guy was circling the city lakes and saw me just hauling 'em in hand over fist while the bait fishermen sat and watched their bobbers (used to call 'em 'Master Baiters', 'cuz their fishing efforts seemed so completely unproductive :rolleyes: ) Anyway, he said that I was catching some of the biggest sunnies he'd seen anybody get all day, so that was the one time I bothered to take home a limit and fry 'em up. I'm sure my technique could use an awful lot of help, but they were still damned tasty :cool: