well Saturday did not turn out at all as I expected but it was still fun. I ran up to a place where I had gotten into some nice sized bass earlier this year. When I first caught those bass I was only there for about two hours, so last saturday I was hoping to get to spend all morning pulling them out of the weeds. Well for the first two hours of the day I couldn’t find them anywhere. I walk up and down the shore of about everywhere I could publicly fish on that reservoir and only caught one 6" bass. I don’t know where they went and I was hitting all the heavy cover. Well then I started walking along the dam and I could see schools of fish cruising around. I thought to myself that I had found the bass. After a bunch of cast with my spin cast and plastic bait and no fish I thought what the heck. I figured I’d just try to catch them bass on my fly-rod. So I got out my fly rod and second cast I landed a rainbow trout, then another, and another. It soon became apparent that the schools of fish were actually trout and not bass at all. In fact I later found out that the F&G had just barely stocked that water with trout. So I caught a whole mess of them (releasing them all back to be caught again another day) just so I could fill worthy to call myself a fisherman again. But it was really easy fly-fishing, I really wish I could’ve had someone there who wanted to learn how to fly fish, cause it really was like fly-fishing 101. Anyways if anyone wants to catch a mess of planter rainbow trout I can tell you where I was at. If you need some practice on the fly rod right now would it be a great place to go to before all the little kids catch all the fish. There were a couple of people near me that were using worms and powerbait but they didn’t catch any, which was surprising to me.
Sounds like you had fun all the same, even if it wasn’t the bass that were hitting.
don’t get me wrong I had a wonderful day, I mean I was fishing. I was pleasantly surprised at how much fight those little planters had in them too. I mean for planters their fight was impressive.