02-19-2010, 04:03 AM
I have to say that overall fly fishing is the most satisfying method for me. For many years I was strictly a fly fisherman, but I've gotten back into spinning for warm water fishing since I moved up to Cache Valley where there are so many little bass waters nearby. I love catching bass on the fly, and I just got an 8wt I'm going to use for tiger musky this spring, but overall I'd have to say spinning and casting are more effective for warm water fish than flies. You can cover a lot more water throwing a crankbait than you can with a fly. The action of a lot of soft plastics are difficult to reproduce with flies as well. Also it's impossible to produce the sound, vibration and flash that some lures make with a fly. Maybe part of it is a nostalgia thing too. Back when I was a kid every February I'd take my birthday money and order a bunch of bass lures for the coming season. I still love perusing the catalogs, making my selections. Then they arrive in the mail and I get to take them all out and inspect them, imagining the places and situations that I want to use them in this coming season.
Despite my rekindled love for bass lures, I've been busy trying to come up with some flies to entice the bass and musky of the area. I've attached pics of a few.
I never intentionally target trout on anything but fly tackle though. It just doesn't seem right, and for trout, I think flies are usually more productive, and they cause the least harm to the fish as well.
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Despite my rekindled love for bass lures, I've been busy trying to come up with some flies to entice the bass and musky of the area. I've attached pics of a few.
I never intentionally target trout on anything but fly tackle though. It just doesn't seem right, and for trout, I think flies are usually more productive, and they cause the least harm to the fish as well.
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