Went out yesterday with Greg and his on on their boat. We hit a local lake. This lake is usually heavily fished and therefore it can be a real struggle to connect with anything. All of us did very well though which was surprising. We also managed to catch a few yellow perch. I have never caught a yellow perch on the fly rod. The interesting thing about the perch was that they are not supposed to be in the lake. Currently, they are unsure how they got in there. We managed to catch 5 of them in four different locations.
Greg and his son were using spinning gear while I fished with the fly rod. I was rockin the clouser minnow in yellow and green with red flash. It was slaying them. I ended the day with 63 Warmouth, 15 Crappie, 10 Bluegill, 8 Long ears, 7 Largemouth and 1 yellow perch. Not bad at all if I do say so myself. I will admit that my arm was sore after 10 hours of throwing a weighted fly around the lake but boy was it worth it. Ok now let's see some fish porn......
Nice fish! And that white and green on the Clouser must be THE color this year. I tied up a few and the bass couldn't resist it!
ReplyDeleteThanks. Yeah I was amazed at how well it did. I just realized I posted a photo of the chartreuse and yellow clouser. Oh well. Back to the other color combo, I also add in some red flash for mine and it does work.
ReplyDeleteI'd call that a pretty good day.
ReplyDeleteGood catch.
ReplyDeleteNice outing dude! I would definitely like to talk to you about filling my fly box with some chartreuse flies of various forms for bass and panfish. Next to silver and white it's my go to color for spinning gear too!
ReplyDeleteGood Memories heal tired muscles and sore joints. Sounds like your arm will be fine. Heck of day catching!
ReplyDeleteThat's some serious fish catching there!! Those are the kind of days that make us forget about the fishless trips and have us planning the next outing before we get back home. Good stuff!!
ReplyDeleteThanks everyone. It was a good time. HighPlainsFlyfisher you are so right. I was already planning the next trip in my mind before this one was even done.
ReplyDeleteSwamp Thing, drop me a line via gmail and we can chat. You are only two counties away from me.