I made a quick trip to Weston this morning before the wind got up. I got there about 8:30 and left at about 12:30. It was really nice out there this morning-- calm and sunny. The breeze didn’t start until about 10:30 or 11 and even then it wasn’t bad. No pictures as I left my camera at home — I always leave something!
I think that this is the first time I have fished Weston this year. It is the same though, – lots of eager little bass, that average 8 to 10 inches. I also caught about 7 or 8 rainbows – 12 to 13 inches.
I was stripping two flies - a red and chartreuse one and a small green and white flashy little minnow imitation. The fish weren’t consistent at all. Some wanted it fast and some took it slow and all kinds of different depths. I got about an equal number of both species on both flies. They just weren’t particular.
I had one really nice heavy hit and it pulled me around for a bit on my 3 wt. I thought I had a twenty incher for sure. Turns out I had two ten inch bass on at the same time. Two ten inchers equal one twenty incher don’t they!!!
I caught some crazy doubles a couple of weeks ago, two days in a row even. I’d caught two fish on tandem fly rigs on several occasions, but these were firsts for me. Unfortunately I forgot my camera on the Oneida trip, so I had to used my junky cell phone camera. There was actually a third smallmouth of a similar size trying to get in on the action but not enough hooks.
Went to Weston today myself. Kept on catching dinks and having a lot of messing around with my wacky hooked wave worm. Finally hooked one of the messing around guys and it was a big ol perch. What the “hey”, why not? Broke off the end of my worm and put it on a #2 circle hook and preceeded to catch a bunch of perch, all between 9 (smallest) and a big “11 1/2” guy. Kept 10 and went out to the middle and caught 2 15" guys (bass) and decided to head home 3:30 after 4 hrs., got home early enough for a drink. Yum. Those perch should be gooooooood eatun. Might try for a mixed bag again, next time.
Way to go Leaky! I looked for the perch but didn’t find any. Where were they hiding?
It must have been you that walked in at the middle of the lake, not too long before I had to leave. Black truck with white topper? Looked like grey float tube?
Wish I had known, I would have hung around long enough to say hi and maybe learn a thing or two!!
I have been really lucky! That is my second double for the year. The first was at Twin Lakes about a month ago – I got two nice sized bluegills at once.
Doubles are a bit of a pain to net and keep from tangling everything. While I am netting one the other is tying my feet together!!
Yep, that was me. All the perch were caught against the S. bank where there the shore line has a gravel/rock face almost directly opposite my truck. All were caught in about 100yds starting at about 30 ft. out and out further a good distance. It is worth noting that I think I was getting pestered when I had my big worm on all up and down the shore line on both sides, so I think they were either in the mood or it was what I was using. My wave worm looks like a big fat night crawler so a small end piece may have looked like a piece of night crawler. I’ve been pestered before and just thought they were small bass.
That figures! I usually fish down in the middle area where you were, but since the weather report mentioned WIND for the day I oped for dam area. I figured it would be an easier area to find some sheltered spots. As it was, it turned out to be a pretty nice and relatively mild morning.
I’ve fished that rocky bank before and caught zillions of 8 in bass there. They are fun too, but I was hoping for some perch — they must have known and hid!
