I got out on “Dad’s pond” in the canoe yesterday for a few hours with my brother. It was a good chance to see what a Triangle Bug can do. One thing it can’t do, at least that blue one I tied, is float a small red copper John very well. The dropper nymph was cut off and I went topwater only.
Bro likes to sit in back, steer, and pick up scraps with jerk baits and plastic worms and whatnot. It was to be only scraps for him this outing, as the blue triangle bug was en fuego—but mostly for small bass. Don’t get me wrong, small bass on tiny topwater baits are great fun. But you know what’s better than that? Big ol bluegills and sunfish.
Alas, I caught easily 20-25 bass in a few hours, the largest going maybe 2 pounds, maybe, but only three bream—2 redear sunfish and one bluegill.
I only tied one of those blue triangle bugs. I tied some yellow ones but I forgot a step and think they might fall apart. After yesterday though I think I’m gonna hand it to a nephew or brother or father to have fun with. I want some big bream and/or big(ger) bass. I think today I’ll string up a little bit bigger popper to float a dropper. I tied a couple Bluegill Bully flies (got the idea from MyFlyVise) and those need testing.
Sunset on the lake was pretty. Gotta remember to look up from the shoreline every now and then! I was really focused on fishing.
Nice out there this morning. Coffee’s done, think I’ll go see what’s up.
Bro likes to sit in back, steer, and pick up scraps with jerk baits and plastic worms and whatnot. It was to be only scraps for him this outing, as the blue triangle bug was en fuego—but mostly for small bass. Don’t get me wrong, small bass on tiny topwater baits are great fun. But you know what’s better than that? Big ol bluegills and sunfish.
Alas, I caught easily 20-25 bass in a few hours, the largest going maybe 2 pounds, maybe, but only three bream—2 redear sunfish and one bluegill.
I only tied one of those blue triangle bugs. I tied some yellow ones but I forgot a step and think they might fall apart. After yesterday though I think I’m gonna hand it to a nephew or brother or father to have fun with. I want some big bream and/or big(ger) bass. I think today I’ll string up a little bit bigger popper to float a dropper. I tied a couple Bluegill Bully flies (got the idea from MyFlyVise) and those need testing.
Sunset on the lake was pretty. Gotta remember to look up from the shoreline every now and then! I was really focused on fishing.
Nice out there this morning. Coffee’s done, think I’ll go see what’s up.
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