I have two trips to talk about and the first one was a week ago. This was before the rains came and it got a bit colder down here in the valley.
Last Friday I set up a trip with Charles and when I got to
his house he suddenly realized he “had something to do and would have to meet
me out there.” Guess what happened? He didn’t show. I won’t be fishing with him
much anymore. 
When I got out to the pond, I put on a Kastmaster and went
to work. Nothing out of the ordinary, I had a quick 15 fish day. More or less
about a fish every 3 casts. As usual I was hoping for something big but
unfortunately it didn’t happen. Most of the fish were smaller but I did get a
couple of 1 lbers and one of them was nice and chunky.
Total Fish: 15 Largemouth Bass
Enter a weekend with a little rain and cold temperatures. By
Monday it was warmer again but there was in fact a cold chill in the air. I got
together with Jeremy, the guy I met out at the pond when I went fishing with my
dad. I was armed with my ugly stick but also decided to bring along Bone
Crusher (my 8 wt.) and throw some of the cool flies That I bought from Justin
over at Carf Outdoors. I will post about these flies later on in a different
post. 
So we started and I quickly noticed a change. Normally it
would only take me a few casts and I would have a fish on but it took a while.
After a while I drew first blood and then I switched over to bone crusher and
tied on a big baitfish pattern. I tossed them out but no strikes. After a while
I tied on a black Wooley bugger and got into my first bass on the fly at the pits!
It was getting darker but a little later I got into my
second bass on the fly and this was the
biggest bass I have caught on the fly so far. I bought bonecrusher for larger
bass so an 8 wt was a bit overkill for these smaller bass but it was still
cool. My buddy Jeremy was pretty impressed with the fact I was a fly fisher but
even more impressed with the fact I caught fish on the fly. I told him, “It’s
what I do!”
Even though I managed
to catch fish on the fly, we could both tell it was slowing down quite a bit.
What used to be a non-stop fish catching party became a slower fishing day but
that was okay. We hung out and drank some beers and had a great time fishing.
Total fish: 7 Largemouth bass
Hey, Juan, congratulations on your first Bass on a fly rod. Plain and simple, it is a lot of fun. Wooly Buggers will catch just about everything at one time or another. Even good to hear that you folks got a little rain........................
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ReplyDeleteYou're on fire, man! I'm glad you were able to use my flies, it's just a shame they didn't produce this outing. Next time!!! I always tie on a black woolly bugger to save me from a skunk. I don't think that there is a fly that has produced more, and I can assure you that any fly fisher/fly tier can attest to that.
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