02-01-2012, 02:39 PM
Thanks, everyone, for the kind comments. It is a fun learning experience. I lucked out that the fish happened to want something red.
I also need to bring more of a variety of flies with me, A sanjuan would have worked also and I had none left. I need to get some of those flytying jigs that Fly Goddess used. They had some serious bling going, but until then beads will do.
Having a fish finder with me really helped, otherwise I would have moved around even more. I've gotten spoiled floattubing with one and now consider fishing lakes without one as fishing blind. It is more for depth, bottom structure, and what depth the fish are cruising at rather than just if there are fish or not. Yesterday they were almost all at 12-13 feet over a weedy soft bottom at 15. One came through at 7 ft, but it was the only one I saw in 4 hrs. It took awhile to find something that they would take, so it was good that the FF said they were there.
One fish that I caught had a 2 inch long dark brown leach in its mouth. I thought at first it was some fisherman's worm. Leaches are ICKY, but good fish food. He was a chubby little guy. They still didn't take my leach imitations unless they were half red.
Now I want to go after some pan fish or kokes!
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I also need to bring more of a variety of flies with me, A sanjuan would have worked also and I had none left. I need to get some of those flytying jigs that Fly Goddess used. They had some serious bling going, but until then beads will do.
Having a fish finder with me really helped, otherwise I would have moved around even more. I've gotten spoiled floattubing with one and now consider fishing lakes without one as fishing blind. It is more for depth, bottom structure, and what depth the fish are cruising at rather than just if there are fish or not. Yesterday they were almost all at 12-13 feet over a weedy soft bottom at 15. One came through at 7 ft, but it was the only one I saw in 4 hrs. It took awhile to find something that they would take, so it was good that the FF said they were there.
One fish that I caught had a 2 inch long dark brown leach in its mouth. I thought at first it was some fisherman's worm. Leaches are ICKY, but good fish food. He was a chubby little guy. They still didn't take my leach imitations unless they were half red.
Now I want to go after some pan fish or kokes!
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