03-08-2005, 10:37 PM
[cool][#0000ff]I think you have been off the water too long and you are getting desperate. Breathe through your nose and don't get too complicated. You can catch plenty of white bass on your fly rod...when they are in and when they are active. Right now, nobody is doing much on them with anything...lures, jigs, bait or whatever. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]It looks like there will be a bit more depth to the water in Utah Lake this year. That will hopefully make flyroddin' more productive. I look forward to joining you in some "in depth" research.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]My most successful fly flingin' for whites came while using a 5 weight, sink tip line, a 7 - 8 foot leader and a tandem fly rig...the top fly being about two feet from the bottom. Keep alternating dark, light, bright and shiny flies until you find the fish and find what they want. When you find them and they turn on, it is more difficult to find something they will NOT hit.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Don't beat yourself up by getting too creative. White bass are too gullible to be worth all that effort. Those all white patterns you used last year should be as good as anything you could throw. Make up some blacks and some purples, in the same patterns, and you shouldn't have to use anything else. The one major difference would be to have some with red head, chartreuse body and white marabou tail. Those work great as the top (attractor) fly, with a solid color on the point fly.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Another problem many folks have when fishing white bass from a float tube or pontoon is that they try to cast too far. You can work right up next to the fish and make shorter, more controlled casts from a tube or toon. That means more control in working the flies and better feel for the takes. It also means fewer snagged rocks. Those rocks at Lincoln Beach even eat flies if you let them get too deep. Often the active white bass are a foot or more off the bottom.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]When are you going to break loose for a shot at them?[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]It looks like there will be a bit more depth to the water in Utah Lake this year. That will hopefully make flyroddin' more productive. I look forward to joining you in some "in depth" research.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]My most successful fly flingin' for whites came while using a 5 weight, sink tip line, a 7 - 8 foot leader and a tandem fly rig...the top fly being about two feet from the bottom. Keep alternating dark, light, bright and shiny flies until you find the fish and find what they want. When you find them and they turn on, it is more difficult to find something they will NOT hit.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Don't beat yourself up by getting too creative. White bass are too gullible to be worth all that effort. Those all white patterns you used last year should be as good as anything you could throw. Make up some blacks and some purples, in the same patterns, and you shouldn't have to use anything else. The one major difference would be to have some with red head, chartreuse body and white marabou tail. Those work great as the top (attractor) fly, with a solid color on the point fly.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Another problem many folks have when fishing white bass from a float tube or pontoon is that they try to cast too far. You can work right up next to the fish and make shorter, more controlled casts from a tube or toon. That means more control in working the flies and better feel for the takes. It also means fewer snagged rocks. Those rocks at Lincoln Beach even eat flies if you let them get too deep. Often the active white bass are a foot or more off the bottom.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]When are you going to break loose for a shot at them?[/#0000ff]
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