First Warmwater Fly Fishing Outing of the Season

A while back I had set a goal for myself this year.  I wanted to get out at least 100 times this year fly fishing.  I dont know if I will make it or not but I am more than willing to try.  Now my wife on the other hand isnt so happy and excited about this new goal of mine.  Oh well.  Anyways, yesterday was my first warmwater outing of the season.  For the past few days the temps here in Maryland have been in the mid 60s to low 70s.  Of course the day we choose to go out the temps drop to the low 50s and the wind gusts up to 30 mph.  FIGURES!  We gave it a whirl and I decided to attack the local ponds near my house.  There are two of them and both are relatively small but each has bluegill, warmouth, crappie, carp, and largemouth. 

At the first pond, I managed to catch 15 or so using a small size 16 black bead head birds nest nymph.  There wasnt any monsters landed today from this pond.  Here is one of the guys I caught there:

At the second pond we managed to get into some largemouth bass.  Now there is a little caveat to that statement.  For those that have been following for a while, know that Greg just started fly fishing last year.  Greg also still likes to do what I call is cheating!  He still uses his spinning rod.  Greg was using his spinning rod at both locations but at the second one he managed to catch a few largemouth.  Two of them were almost two pounds a piece.  Greg I know you are going to read this but you did cheat.  I managed to catch a few bluegills and one largemouth.  All of mine were caught on the orange Road Kill Nymph I just tied up.  Again, there is something to be said for catching fish on the flies you have tied yourself.  Here are some photos: