-I haven’t
been fly fishing in a bit. Lately I have been focusing more on striper fishing
with ol Pops but I am really jonesing for a fish on the fly. Aside from my
trips with ol Pops I haven’t even been fishing much at all. I have been getting
off of work, working out, watching a bit of tv before I go to sleep and repeat.
I haven’t gotten to try my hand much at some bigger bass on the fly with my 8 Wt.
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| "helmet" buggers |
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| regular beaded bugger |
-I haven’t
even been back to Putah to try for some bass. As you may recall I found success
at Putah with my largemouth on a fly goal but couldn’t get into anything too
big and ended up losing my beaded black wooley buggers. I ended up buying some
new ones and I realized they weren’t the same as the ones I had success with.
In fact, these beaded heads were actual beads as opposed to the “helmet” beads with which I had success. I don’t know if there is any difference or if
those “helmet” buggers have an actual name but I decided to go on a hunt for
the helmet buggers and after striking out at a couple of places, finally
realized that I must have purchased them at Sportsmans warehouse in Rocklin. I
went out there yesterday and I was right so I ended up buying enough to hold me
down for a while. I guess I’ll have to field test both the bead and the helmets
to see the difference.
- I have
heard elsewhere that a lot of people use circle hooks for catfishing so I
bought some. So I took them on a river fishing trip and found success with circle
hooks while striper fishing. These hooks are smaller but I decided to look for
larger circle hooks. While at Sportsmans warehouse I also found some size 5
circle hooks so I’m excited to try them out on the stripers.
-As for
2047, I have heard legend of some big bass in there and I plan on going out
there with pops and probably Rigo to give it a try. Like I said before we have been
fishing there for at least 20 years and never even seen a bass or caught one by
accident so if I happen to catch one it will definitely be a milestone.
-I also have
yet to visit the bee hive and butte pond lately which means my Largemouth bass
and crappie count hasn’t even begun yet. I purchased some honey bee and yellow
jacket looking flies specifically to see if the largemouths will grub them
down. I also really want to see if the Sarges crappie fly will slay the crappie
at this hole.
-If I don’t
completely break down and head out to putah tonight, my next fishing adventures
will be this weekend and then next Wednesday I will be heading out to fish with
“Magic Mark” from Northern California Trout (haha you like the new nickname,
buddy?).
