09-13-2009, 03:34 AM
Hello All,
I wanted to report that on Friday morning, a friend and I went to Henry's lake to fish and man, I had a blast. I am very new to fishing and my skills and knowledge are limited. Please be patient with my ignorance of terms and location.
We put in around 730am. The county dock through a little campground. It was really windy and we found a spot that had about 6 boats and two float tubers. I setup my fly rod with an indicator and 5ft down i had a copper john and brown/red leach pattern on the end. The fishing seemed a little slow for the first 1.5 hours as collectively I saw about 3 caught amongst all of us. I heard some of the fishermen complaining about the windy night and how murky the water was. Our boat drifted out of place (really windy, we setup two anchors the 2nd time) so we trolled up to water around 8 feet deep. Iike I said, I am a newbie so I always question my presentation with the fly rod. I grabed my spin rod and tossed out a worm with a split shot about 2 ft up the line. Bamn! landed an 18" brookie, amazing....I did not expect to land such a big fish.
I switched back to my fly rod being content catching one on a worm. I got 3 hits and missed. Then I had huge hit, a big one that made my fly pole bend down hard! then it was gone...no pull. I retrieved my line and saw that my line/knot had failed. This is the second time I lose a fly at henry's to a fish. Like I said I am fairly new to fishing so my knot tying stills aren't perfected for sure.
The next leach I tied on did not get any hits for the next hr. I am also not really good at fly casting so I was really trying to get my roll cast perfected with the wind at my back it was difficult to do the overhead cast. I heard the other fisherman talking about having a bead head and a Renegade. I had the bead head but not sure what a renegade was until I had google at home. I dont know what order they would tie them in a tandem setup. I tried the retrieving method and speed I saw them doing. Seems like they cast out and then pull in the line in short quick strokes. Wasnt really working for me. Others just left there line sit out there with indicators. I was really surprised to see everyone using fly rods. most of the fishermen left after 2 hrs probably cuz of the wind and from what I heard was way slower then thursday.
I switched back to the worm and landed 2 more 14" cuthroats then a I landed a huge 24" hybrid. It was great! This ended our day around noon, my friend landed some big cutthroats. We each landed 5 for the day (released 3 each of course). It was awesome.
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I can't wait to some day land some of these hogs on a fly rod.
Hopefully next week....
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I wanted to report that on Friday morning, a friend and I went to Henry's lake to fish and man, I had a blast. I am very new to fishing and my skills and knowledge are limited. Please be patient with my ignorance of terms and location.
We put in around 730am. The county dock through a little campground. It was really windy and we found a spot that had about 6 boats and two float tubers. I setup my fly rod with an indicator and 5ft down i had a copper john and brown/red leach pattern on the end. The fishing seemed a little slow for the first 1.5 hours as collectively I saw about 3 caught amongst all of us. I heard some of the fishermen complaining about the windy night and how murky the water was. Our boat drifted out of place (really windy, we setup two anchors the 2nd time) so we trolled up to water around 8 feet deep. Iike I said, I am a newbie so I always question my presentation with the fly rod. I grabed my spin rod and tossed out a worm with a split shot about 2 ft up the line. Bamn! landed an 18" brookie, amazing....I did not expect to land such a big fish.
I switched back to my fly rod being content catching one on a worm. I got 3 hits and missed. Then I had huge hit, a big one that made my fly pole bend down hard! then it was gone...no pull. I retrieved my line and saw that my line/knot had failed. This is the second time I lose a fly at henry's to a fish. Like I said I am fairly new to fishing so my knot tying stills aren't perfected for sure.
The next leach I tied on did not get any hits for the next hr. I am also not really good at fly casting so I was really trying to get my roll cast perfected with the wind at my back it was difficult to do the overhead cast. I heard the other fisherman talking about having a bead head and a Renegade. I had the bead head but not sure what a renegade was until I had google at home. I dont know what order they would tie them in a tandem setup. I tried the retrieving method and speed I saw them doing. Seems like they cast out and then pull in the line in short quick strokes. Wasnt really working for me. Others just left there line sit out there with indicators. I was really surprised to see everyone using fly rods. most of the fishermen left after 2 hrs probably cuz of the wind and from what I heard was way slower then thursday.
I switched back to the worm and landed 2 more 14" cuthroats then a I landed a huge 24" hybrid. It was great! This ended our day around noon, my friend landed some big cutthroats. We each landed 5 for the day (released 3 each of course). It was awesome.
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]I can't wait to some day land some of these hogs on a fly rod.
Hopefully next week....
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