Tuesday, June 24, 2014

New Fly Rod Personal Best White Bass

My buddy Jay called me before noon today to tell me the fish were biting.  I met up with him during my lunch hour.
Fish were picking the 17-Year Cicadas off the surface of the water, but they hit so fast, we never actually figured out WHAT was eating them!  There was also an abundance of sub-fingerling size young-of-the-year fish schooling around near the surface, and fish would crash them as well.  Pretty exciting to watch all the action!

I used my 12' 5wt Allen Olympic Switch Rod again.  I started out with the beat-up shad-imitating streamer I'd caught those catfish on last week, with no hits.  I switched to a Chartreuse-Over-White Clouser Deep Minnow, with no hits.  I switched to a variant (90-degree jig hook and lead eyes) of the F-C Pearl Shiner, and started catching fish by letting it free-fall into the water, then giving some short quick strips and letting it fall again.

I caught 3 small 10" Wipers, and one 16" White Bass, which was a new flyrod personal best for me.
I wish I could have fished longer!  :)

3 comments:

  1. Nice White Bass, Dave. They are fun when you can crash their party. How dare they refuse a Chartreuse and White Clouser...........................................

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    1. Yeah...that's what I thought! Maybe my Clouser wasn't tied sparsely enough....

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  2. Ugh! Lunch time fishing! I don't do it but it seems you are a master at this abbreviated time. Wish I had those to fish for-nice fish!

    Gregg

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