I've been fishing the 5 wt. fly rod quite a bit lately. I've been catching a few fish, too. It's been fun fly fishing and I'm hoping that my casting 'practice' will improve once I get a chance to fish the 8 wt. in the salt. I'm thinking about rigging the 8 wt. up with some of the poppers in my fly box. My 5 wt. doesn't like to cast them easily, and my casting ability is barely adequate to launch them far enough.
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| Crappie on the Wooly Bugger |
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I did have some luck with the black Wooly Bugger on Friday. This little Crappie was kind enough to ride the hook up and say 'Hello'.
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| Small largemouth bass in Bostic, NC. |
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This largemouth bass was caught in Bostic, North Carolina on a Betts black Stone Fly. I caught four other fish in that pond that day.
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| Foam Flies |
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I've had pretty good luck with the Betts black Stone Fly. I also had a bluegill make off with the white foam ant the first time I fished it. I decided to tie a few foam flies to supplement the ones I purchased. I tied up one with a precut ant body, then made a couple more from yellow sheet foam. I'm quite happy with them, considering they were my first foam flies.
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| My first popper fly |
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I also tied my first popper fly today. I used a small cork and colored it with markers. My building steps were all out of order, but I pulled it off anyway. It better catch fish, because it's not that pretty.
Hopefully I'll have a fishing (catching) report once I get a chance to fish any of these.
I lost this fly, but had a nice largemouth bass hit the other yellow foam fly in the post. Unfortunately, he wrapped me up on a piling and broke me off. Two flies lost, but it was worth it.
