The season opener is only a few weeks out and I'm practically salivating to get after the pike and largemouths. The only fish besides sunnies and crappies that I've caught all year is a little largemouth on a woolly bugger fly. I need some size.
The northern and bass are ending their postspawn period and the crappie are nearing their spawn period. I've been out to French Park a few times this week and just messed around with the fly rod a little. Sunfish and bass are a lot of fun on my five weight.
One area that I definetly need to improve on a ton is my hooksets with topwater flys. It's actually much harder for me that what I use with spinning gear for topwaters, like a hula popper or jitterbug with an ultralight. The strikes can be so small and so fast and usually they don't even grab the hook. For every fish that I've caught on a dry fly this week, I've missed about five. Very frustrating and when I get frustrated on the water I mess up my casts, which just makes me more frustrated.
More on dry flies for bass and sunfish later. I have to go watch Touch.
No comments:
Post a Comment