I ventured out for a few hours to go fishing for some bass at our local dam today. I started out with some poppers and the smaller fish were hitting the poppers all the time. It really was fun targeting individual fish and then to see a few small bass all storm at the fly as soon as it lands. The bigger fish would however just swim up to the fly and inspect it for a few minutes before it would turn up it nose and swim away.
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| FRUSTRATING and yes I was sitting in the tree trying to get this guy to take my fly | | | |
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| It's just not going to happen |
Eventually I had enough of the smaller fish and set out to get my revenge on some of the larger fish. I tied on a fish skull streamer and low and behold on the fist cast one of the larger fish chased it as if possessed and I watched it as it opened its mouth and swallowed the fly. I was a bit quick on the gun though and pulled the fly out of its mouth. I few choice words and two casts later another fish chased the fly and it was fish on.
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| My arm just wasn't long enough to get the whole fish in the pic. :-) |
I was pleasantly surprised at how effective the Fish Skull fly was as it landed me quite a few decent sized bass.
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| Happy but tired little soldier |
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| OOPS, hero shot gone wrong |
