Bream

Just a few Bream caught on the 1wt. using a sz.12 black popper or a sz.12 black foam ant.

Jitterbee action

For the most part I've always been a dry fly and popper man, one has to use what works for you. This year I decided to learn to fish subsurface, nymyhs, streamers, and such under a strick indicator (thingamabobber). So I tied up some orange/black and red/black jitterbees and put a strick indicator on and got to work. Talk about a killer combo. I've hooked it all up to the 5wt. rod, a WW Grigg ( my first fly rod ). Hope to have pics soon.

More Bream

This little Bream is almost in spawning colors. He was caught on a size 12 black foam spider using a 3wt. TFO rod around some small structure. It is the same fish in both pics, mostly to show scale and playing around with the camera.

Warm water 2011

Yesterday was the first day I had to fish any of the local lakes around here. I was out for about 30min. just before dusk and caught 3 medium size Bream on the 3wt. using a size 14 parachute adams. I even had two young kids ( about 10yrs old ) commenting on my technique and the fish :) I like to think this is a good start to the year and plan to be out there as mush as possible.

Early morning fishing

I woke up early this morning and went to a lake at a local public park to kill some time before taking the boy to school. I was using a 7wt. TFO rod and a little black popper. The crappie is 6"-8" long, I'm not big on crappie fishing, and the bass is about a foot or so long. Not to bad for 45 min. of playing around.

Lazzy

It's been awhile, 5 months since my last blog (this almost sounds like confession), back in June the wife, the boy, and I went to Dollywood/Pigon Forge and the national park up there for vacation. The only fish that we caught were ugly little things that the locals called Knotheads.
The summer has been so hot that all the Bass and Brim (Bream) are deep and hard to catch. The temps are only now starting to come down some so I think it is time to do some early morning/late evening golf course and farm pond fishing. My son is playing football for his school (7th grade) and the city rec. team league so time has become a premium.

2010 season starts

My sons spring break was a couple of weeks ago, so we went up/over to Murphreeburo Tn. and fished the Duck river near the dam for Rainbow Trout. The boy caught a few while I got skunked but I did learn some lessons, white streamers are the way to go.
Two days ago we started the warm water 2010 season and had a blast with #12 black poppers on ultralite rods at a local lake. The Bream were literally jumping out of the water for the flies/poppers. We got there just as the sun was setting and other people were leaving. Sadly I have no pics.