Flyfished in Kirksville, MO. Caught bass, bluegills, and hybrid sunfish on Saturday morning.
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Monday, February 19, 2018
Icefishing February17,2018
Jay and I formulated flexible icefishing plans for Saturday. We didn't know where we might find safe & accessible ice, so we had a series of "contingencies".
Fortunately(?) the first place we tried was accessible. The ice looked "iffy"....lotsa bubbles trapped in the ice, surface cracks....but not really honeycombed. 6.5" of ice. We fished here most of the day, before hitting another place for the last couple hours.
Fishing alternated between very good, to zero throughout the day for each of us....usually only one of us was having success at any one time. And then the fish would completely disappear for both of us. Very bizarre.
Despite not catching much for hours at a time....we had fun and we did catch some decent fish!
We caught some crazy-aggressive chunky Hybrid Sunfish:
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| Hybrid Sunfish (presumably a Bluegill / Green Sunfish cross) |
Even the Pumpkinseeds seemed more aggressive than the bluegills:
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| Pumpkinseed Sunfish |
(BTW...the bottom right fish in the picture above is a Pumpkinseed hybrid.)
We didn't catch any crappies, and just a few bass. This was the biggest of the day at a chunky 20" (see picture at the top of this post.)
I was looking down the hole when that one showed up and hit!
In other news....remember the ice rod that got ripped out of my hands and flew down the back in January? Well...that pond's water is typically pretty stained all year. But on Saturday I discovered it was strangely clear....I could see my lure tipped with a waxworm down to 8' +/-. When we had arrived at the pond, Jay had initially drilled a couple holes to check ice thickness/quality. Before we left that pond for the day, I decided to try and fish those holes since we couldn't find fish anywhere else. I picked a hole that was over 6' of water. I didn't mark any fish. I dropped my lure/waxie to the bottom....then noticed something off to the side a bit. Looked like my lost rod laying on the bottom! I drilled 2 more holes before getting directly over the top of it. I put on a rattle spoon and dropped it down. Within a minute or two, I managed to hook THE CORK HANDLE (not the line or rod or eyelet like you would expect)....and reeled it up. I GOT MY LOST ROD BACK!!! We decided the chances of finding it and retrieving it were astronomical. CRAZY how everything worked out like that! The uncharacteristically clear water was definitely the biggest factor.
Anyway....pretty cool stuff! Oh....and no muskrats this time, but I did look down a hole once to see a ginormous bullhead slowly swimming just a couple feet under the ice. I would have loved to catch it...I reeled up as quickly as I could, but it never turned or showed any interest and was quickly gone from view.
Wednesday, July 1, 2015
Last Week of June, 2015
Algae blooms are forming broad mats along the shorelines of many of the public ponds I flyfishing. It makes fishing and landing fish difficult. But not impossible.
I've tried unsuccessfully for more Grass Carp. Largemouth Bass are becoming increasingly aggressive towards topwaters. Bluegills and Hybrid Sunfish, too. Some sunfish are still hanging out near nesting areas, but I think the main spawn is mostly over. A much smaller percentage of the population may continue to spawn sporadically for the remainder of the summer.
Hybrid Sunfish:
A 10" Bluegill!! :
And Largemouth Bass up to 18":
I've tried unsuccessfully for more Grass Carp. Largemouth Bass are becoming increasingly aggressive towards topwaters. Bluegills and Hybrid Sunfish, too. Some sunfish are still hanging out near nesting areas, but I think the main spawn is mostly over. A much smaller percentage of the population may continue to spawn sporadically for the remainder of the summer.
Hybrid Sunfish:
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
Pumkinseed Sunfish & Hybrid Sunfish
My buddy Jay met me out flyfishing Sunday evening. At long last, this particular pond is pretty much free of its wide band of algae that typically clogs the entire shoreline all summer. The geese and ducks have the shallows pretty muddied up right now. I tried a topwater for bass, but did not get any along the stretch of shore I tried. We fished for panfish instead, and caught plenty. Mostly we caught Bluegills, with a few naturally-occuring Hybrid Sunfish. I hoped for crappies, but did not catch any. We tried a variety of fly patterns. As long as it was chartreuse, it seemed to catch fish well.
In Iowa, the "Master Angler" qualifying size for Pumpkinseed Sunfish is 9". We did not catch any quite that big, but each caught Pumpkinseeds that measured 8.5", which was new personal bests for each of us. Such beautiful fish!!
I did catch one bass while fishing for the sunfish. Most of the Hybrid Sunfish were moderate size, the 8.5-incher below was the largest, and also appears to have had a Pumpkinseed as one of the parents.
We left before it was completely dark, which unfortunately is only @ 7:15pm right now. Too early!!!! :)
In Iowa, the "Master Angler" qualifying size for Pumpkinseed Sunfish is 9". We did not catch any quite that big, but each caught Pumpkinseeds that measured 8.5", which was new personal bests for each of us. Such beautiful fish!!
I did catch one bass while fishing for the sunfish. Most of the Hybrid Sunfish were moderate size, the 8.5-incher below was the largest, and also appears to have had a Pumpkinseed as one of the parents.
Monday, September 15, 2014
Mixed Bag Flyfishing, 9-14-2014
There were hundreds of wild geese and ducks scattered all around the pond, and they had the shallow areas pretty well muddied up. Deeper areas were reasonably clear, and most of the algae mats around the shoreline were gone.
I switched back and forth between a blockhead popper (trying for bass), and a chartreuse mylar bugger (unweighted, trying for everything). I caught one decent Largemouth Bass and a 9.25" beastly Hybrid Sunfish on the blockhead popper, along with a smaller Hybrid or two, and some aggressive Bluegills. A large bass broke my line and stole one of the blockhead poppers!
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| 9.25" Hybrid Sunfish...inhaled the blockhead popper! |
While I was fighting one of the Pumpkinseeds, a BIG bass attacked it right in front of me! I tossed some flies around for it, be never saw it again....although I had some really good strikes on a blockhead popper that never got hooked up.
Friday, July 18, 2014
Blockhead Popper Field Test, 7-17-2014
In my previous post, I showed the first blockhead-style flyrod popper I tied.
I went flyfishing after dinner last night for a couple hours. When I arrived at one of the local ponds, I made my first cast with the other foam-head style popper that I've been having good success with this year.
I cast to an area where I've lost a really nice bass on 2 previous trips to this pond this year. The first one broke the line, the second one threw the popper. Well, last night the fish broke my line again. 10 lb test tippet!!! The fish probably is 5lbs or less, so I'm not sure why it keeps breaking my line. Maybe it has genetically mutated giant sharp fangs. HA! Unfortunately, I'm not sure how many more times I can trick it into hitting a topwater! Its gonna get wise.
The good news is, my popper floated to the surface maybe 10 seconds later. The bad news is the wind blew it farther from shore, and I was unable to retrieve it. Maybe I'll find it later this year.
Anyway, so then I tied on the blockhead-style popper. I like it. Casts better than I expected given its shape, and that square flat face gives a better pop than the other style. I can't argue with all the bass I've caught on that other style, though.
The first fish to take the blockhead popper was a bluegill. What was she thinking??
The next fish was a truly giant Sunfish. I suspect it is a Hybrid Sunfish, but it really has strong Green Sunfish features. It measured 9.5":
Then I caught 3 bass on it:
I went flyfishing after dinner last night for a couple hours. When I arrived at one of the local ponds, I made my first cast with the other foam-head style popper that I've been having good success with this year.
I cast to an area where I've lost a really nice bass on 2 previous trips to this pond this year. The first one broke the line, the second one threw the popper. Well, last night the fish broke my line again. 10 lb test tippet!!! The fish probably is 5lbs or less, so I'm not sure why it keeps breaking my line. Maybe it has genetically mutated giant sharp fangs. HA! Unfortunately, I'm not sure how many more times I can trick it into hitting a topwater! Its gonna get wise.
The good news is, my popper floated to the surface maybe 10 seconds later. The bad news is the wind blew it farther from shore, and I was unable to retrieve it. Maybe I'll find it later this year.
Anyway, so then I tied on the blockhead-style popper. I like it. Casts better than I expected given its shape, and that square flat face gives a better pop than the other style. I can't argue with all the bass I've caught on that other style, though.
The first fish to take the blockhead popper was a bluegill. What was she thinking??
The next fish was a truly giant Sunfish. I suspect it is a Hybrid Sunfish, but it really has strong Green Sunfish features. It measured 9.5":
Then I caught 3 bass on it:
The third one was the biggest one (picture above), an while trying to drag it to shore through the algae mats, my TFO BVK 6 wt. rod broke in 2 places! I'm BUMMED! Fortunately, TFO has a Lifetime "No-Fault" Warranty. So, I'll need to ship the pieces back along with $25 to get replacement sections or a new rod.
There were grass carp around, so I went back to my car and got
my switch rod. I put on a floating grasshopper pattern and spent the last
hour trying for Grass Carp…even put some blades of grass and weed leaves on the
hook, but they would look but not hit. Actually they might have hit once
or twice, but they didn’t submerge the hopper for very long, so I never set the
hook. I caught one more bass and a crappie on the hopper.
Grass Carp sometimes seem to be like Geese. They always seem to have one “sentry” at the surface keeping watch, while the others are feeding. There was a BIG one with his back, fin, and top of his tail out of the water, and he sat or slowly went back and forth in front of me pretty much for the entire hour I fished for them.
Grass Carp sometimes seem to be like Geese. They always seem to have one “sentry” at the surface keeping watch, while the others are feeding. There was a BIG one with his back, fin, and top of his tail out of the water, and he sat or slowly went back and forth in front of me pretty much for the entire hour I fished for them.
Thursday, May 29, 2014
Evening Flyfishing, 5-28-2014
Flyfished last night at a pond that SKUNKED me during the ice season. Turns out, there ARE fish in it!
I caught over 20 Bluegills (biggest by far was 8"), 5 Crappies (to 11"), 4 Pumpkinseed Sunfish (to 8"), 7 Largemouth Bass (to 14"-15"), and 1 Hybrid Sunfish that seemed HUGE (but measured at 9.25").
Also saw some Grass Carp.
Here's the beast Hybrid:
And here's a Pumpkinseed. I thought maybe it was too dark out (I was wearing sunglasses), so I took a picture with and without a flash. I thought the differerence was interesting:
Most of the fish were caught on a chartreuse microjig under an indicator.
I caught over 20 Bluegills (biggest by far was 8"), 5 Crappies (to 11"), 4 Pumpkinseed Sunfish (to 8"), 7 Largemouth Bass (to 14"-15"), and 1 Hybrid Sunfish that seemed HUGE (but measured at 9.25").
Also saw some Grass Carp.
Here's the beast Hybrid:
And here's a Pumpkinseed. I thought maybe it was too dark out (I was wearing sunglasses), so I took a picture with and without a flash. I thought the differerence was interesting:
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Hybrid Sunfish
Caught some 8"-9" Hybrid Sunfish this weekend while flyfishing at a local pond. There seems to be 2 varieties of Hybrids here...a Green Sunfish x Bluegill Hybrid:
...and a Pumpkinseed Sunfish x Bluegill Hybrid:
They are all gorgeous fish, and fight really hard!
...and a Pumpkinseed Sunfish x Bluegill Hybrid:
They are all gorgeous fish, and fight really hard!
Thursday, August 29, 2013
Back to the Schoolyear Grind
My kids have been back in school for a few weeks now. After school activities have resumed as well. To me, that means its back to being difficult to find time to go fishing.
But you gotta do what you gotta do. So, last night I dropped my son off at one of his activities, and then flyfished for about 75 minutes just before dark. It was a public pond in a nearby 'burb. I fished a variety of flies, caught a few bluegills, before I finally settled on what the FISH wanted, rather than what I wanted to use. The fish wanted something that floated on the surface. I ended up catching 15 Bluegills (biggest was a nice 9.25" fish), 1 Hybrid Sunfish (a big chunky 9-incher), and 1 surprise Crappie.
Both of these fish fought really well. The bluegill in the bottom picture..I seriously thought I had a 13" bass on the line..it even took line out of my hand!
But you gotta do what you gotta do. So, last night I dropped my son off at one of his activities, and then flyfished for about 75 minutes just before dark. It was a public pond in a nearby 'burb. I fished a variety of flies, caught a few bluegills, before I finally settled on what the FISH wanted, rather than what I wanted to use. The fish wanted something that floated on the surface. I ended up catching 15 Bluegills (biggest was a nice 9.25" fish), 1 Hybrid Sunfish (a big chunky 9-incher), and 1 surprise Crappie.
Monday, July 15, 2013
Friday Lunch Flyfishing Report, 7-12-2013
This is sort of a late post.
I finally went flyfishing during my lunch hour again on Friday. 2 girls and their dad were just leaving the pond as I was getting out of my vehicle. I asked them if they caught anything, and they got all excited....telling me it was really great! They caught bluegills, crappies, bass, etc, on small orange twister-tail jigs. And that the fish stopped hitting about an hour ago. Great.
There was about a 15mph wind. There was a LOT of floating algae around all the pond edges, and the downwind side of the lake was nearly obliterated by the stuff. Flyfishing would be tough, but not impossible.
I picked up a few Bluegills from beyond the edges of the floating algae mats using a microjig under an indicator. I noticed an open pocket on the inside edge of the algae, and saw fish swimming around there, some apparently guarding nests.
I switched to a foam topwater with palmered hackle. The first cast saw a bass come out from under the adjacent algae mat and take the fly.
Nice fat Largemouth Bass that swam through the algae heading for deeper water, caking the junk all up and down my leader and tippet. Very fun though!
I also ended up catching a couple Green Sunfish, at least a 1/2 dozen Bluegills, and 4 colorful Hybrid Sunfish.
I finally went flyfishing during my lunch hour again on Friday. 2 girls and their dad were just leaving the pond as I was getting out of my vehicle. I asked them if they caught anything, and they got all excited....telling me it was really great! They caught bluegills, crappies, bass, etc, on small orange twister-tail jigs. And that the fish stopped hitting about an hour ago. Great.
There was about a 15mph wind. There was a LOT of floating algae around all the pond edges, and the downwind side of the lake was nearly obliterated by the stuff. Flyfishing would be tough, but not impossible.
I picked up a few Bluegills from beyond the edges of the floating algae mats using a microjig under an indicator. I noticed an open pocket on the inside edge of the algae, and saw fish swimming around there, some apparently guarding nests.
I switched to a foam topwater with palmered hackle. The first cast saw a bass come out from under the adjacent algae mat and take the fly.
Nice fat Largemouth Bass that swam through the algae heading for deeper water, caking the junk all up and down my leader and tippet. Very fun though!
I also ended up catching a couple Green Sunfish, at least a 1/2 dozen Bluegills, and 4 colorful Hybrid Sunfish.
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
New Pond, Visit #2
My first trip ever to this pond (as you will remember from my previous blog), last week,
resulted in catching a bunch of bluegills, and a fair number of Hybrid Sunfish
and some Pumpkinseeds.
Last night's flyfishing outing, my second trip ever to this pond, I again caught a bunch of
bluegills, decent numbers of Hybrid Sunfish…
...but I didn’t catch any Pumpkinseeds
for the first hour. I recalled that the
first trip I had tried 3 different colors of microjigs, and almost all the Pumpkinseeds
hit the chartreuse. I also recalled that
I thought I had a crappie on last trip, but didn’t land it.
Unlike last trip, this time I saved a little bit of remaining daylight for
fishing the channel and beyond. The north end of the main pond turns into a
narrow channel that cuts across to the backs of some townhomes sort of near my
neighborhood. There it opens up again into a smaller pond basin area. Actually, the smaller basin looked bigger than I thought it would. I didn’t really get to fish the smaller pond
area, except right where it connects to the channel, because it just got too
dark to see my strike indicator. Anyway, at
first I was still using a gold microjig that I had used on the main big pond area. I went up the channel to just beyond where it
first widens out slightly. I was casting
towards the far shoreline, and caught a couple crappies! I ended up catching at least 7 crappies
scattered throughout the channel area.
I
also caught 3 bass this time. 2 were
small, one was a nice feisty “medium size”….maybe 13”.
Right after I caught that bigger bass, I
threw back in the same spot and hooked another something nice. I thought maybe it was another bass. It turned and ran straight up the channel and
angled towards the opposite shoreline. I
mean it ROCKETED up that channel! It was
peeling line out of my hand and off the reel.
And I was using a 6wt! In
hindsight, I should have horsed it more. My line would have held, but I was worried
about the hook pulling loose. In the
end, the fish found some weeds/muck, and got free. DANG!
Whatever it was…it was NICE. Not
like 10lb catfish nice…but a solid fish and FAST/strong! I really wonder what it was. I still suspect bass (maybe 18-19” range?),
but it could have been grass carp, BIG crappie…heck, it could have been a
muskrat! There was at least one swimming around the area around dusk.
Anyway, it was exciting.
As the cloudy light started to get dark, I did switch to a chartreuse
microjig, and caught more crappies in the channel, and 3 more Pumpkinseeds…plus
a few more bluegills. Here's a couple of the Pumpkinseeds:
So…all in all it was an interesting evening of flyfishing.
That channel area is intriguing. It is not very deep, and I have a feeling by late spring/summer it will be overgrown with weeds…so
I think I will try to fish there a bit more while the weather is still cool.
Friday, April 12, 2013
Pumpkinseeds & Hybrid Sunfish!
Last night I fly-fished from @7pm-8:15pm. I visited a pond just a few blocks from my house that, odd as it may seem, I had never fished before! The pond is probably @ 6 years old (?), and I'm not exactly sure when it was first stocked. I've seen folks fish it, see them catch fish that, obviously, were big enough to catch. :)
I decided to try it. The weather was crappy...37 degrees F, breezy, overcast, damp (it had been raining/drizzling sporadically throughout the day).
I stuck with my favored tactic of late...a microjig under an indicator. Long story short, I caught @ 28 Bluegills, 10 Hybrid Sunfish, and 6 Pumpkinseed Sunfish.
Hybrids are cool because they are so aggressive and fight REALLY hard! Of the 20+ public ponds in my town...I'm not sure I've ever caught a Pumpkinseed before. If I did, I probably assumed it was a Hybrid Sunfish. But last night, catching multiple Hybrids and Pumpkinseeds at the almost the same time...There was a marked difference between these fish. So...I am EXCITED, because I can now add Pumpkinseed to my "Fly Rod Species List"!
Here's some pics:
Here's 3 Pumpkinseeds
I decided to try it. The weather was crappy...37 degrees F, breezy, overcast, damp (it had been raining/drizzling sporadically throughout the day).
I stuck with my favored tactic of late...a microjig under an indicator. Long story short, I caught @ 28 Bluegills, 10 Hybrid Sunfish, and 6 Pumpkinseed Sunfish.
Hybrids are cool because they are so aggressive and fight REALLY hard! Of the 20+ public ponds in my town...I'm not sure I've ever caught a Pumpkinseed before. If I did, I probably assumed it was a Hybrid Sunfish. But last night, catching multiple Hybrids and Pumpkinseeds at the almost the same time...There was a marked difference between these fish. So...I am EXCITED, because I can now add Pumpkinseed to my "Fly Rod Species List"!
Here's some pics:
Here's 3 Pumpkinseeds
At @ 7", this was one of the bigger Pumpkinseeds:
And here is an 8" Hybrid Sunfish:
I'm looking forward to fishing this pond around spawning time...and get some good pics of these Pumpkinseeds in their spawning colors!
Monday, October 15, 2012
Fishing Report - October 13 & 15, 2012
I got out flyfishing for bit late Saturday evening. The weather was warm...about 74 degrees. Wind was gusty, but usually fishable.
I started off catching some nice Bluegills on a Springbrook Wunder microjig under an indicator. Many were around this size:
I also caught 3 Largemouth Bass. I took a picture of the smallest one...because it was so cute:
Later in the evening, it started misting pretty heavily. I could see the waves of it under the nearby softball field lights. It didn't sprinkle...it didn't really even drizzle...just a heavy mist. Eventually, although I was comfortably dry, my glasses got covered in tiny droplets to the point I could barely see. I called it a night.
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Monday, October 15.... I went flyfishing during lunch today. Visited a nearby public pond. Apparently the rain we had over the weekend had little effect on pond water levels. The water did seem a bit clearer than it had been, though.
I caught around 20 Bluegills. I also caught 4 small naturally-occurring Hybrid Sunfish. All the fish were caught on a #10 unweighted chartreuse Woolly Bugger. Although the Hybrids were considerably smaller than the Bluegills I was catching, I had to take a picture of one of the colorful Hybrids:
I started off catching some nice Bluegills on a Springbrook Wunder microjig under an indicator. Many were around this size:
I also caught 3 Largemouth Bass. I took a picture of the smallest one...because it was so cute:
Later in the evening, it started misting pretty heavily. I could see the waves of it under the nearby softball field lights. It didn't sprinkle...it didn't really even drizzle...just a heavy mist. Eventually, although I was comfortably dry, my glasses got covered in tiny droplets to the point I could barely see. I called it a night.
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Monday, October 15.... I went flyfishing during lunch today. Visited a nearby public pond. Apparently the rain we had over the weekend had little effect on pond water levels. The water did seem a bit clearer than it had been, though.
I caught around 20 Bluegills. I also caught 4 small naturally-occurring Hybrid Sunfish. All the fish were caught on a #10 unweighted chartreuse Woolly Bugger. Although the Hybrids were considerably smaller than the Bluegills I was catching, I had to take a picture of one of the colorful Hybrids:
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Hybrid Sunfish, 8-28-2012
I drove the carpool last night to West Des Moines (2-year temporary home of U.S. Olympic Gold Medalist gymnast Gabby Douglas) for some Iowa Youth Chorus singers, and had some time to fish while they rehearsed. I visited a public pond I had first fished earlier this Spring, but had not visited at all this Summer.
I had the entire pond to myself for almost the entire evening. Despite the abundant signage declaring the pond CATCH AND RELEASE ONLY, the only other angler I saw stopped by briefly to harvest some bluegills that I assume he intended to take catfishing elsewhere. Must be the only place around that has bluegills. Not.
I had a good time. I was hoping to see some Grass Carp. There were possible Grassies in the area. What I DID see was a couple of Common Carp. At one point I had cast into an area where I thought there might be a Carp/Grass Carp. Thought I might have gotten a strike. I set the hook and spooked a big fish, as a small branch flew out of the water with my hook stuck to it. Poop.
Other than that, I just caught 3 Largemouth Bass to about 13", at least a dozen Bluegills, and 7 Hybrid Sunfish. Those Hybrid Sunfish are so colorful...I love catching them! So I took a few pics.
This was the first one of the evening, it had some interesting vertical markings..."tiger stripes":
The Hybrid Sunfish in this next picture had a lot of iridescent blue markings...it was absolutely beautiful. The picture just can't adequately capture the colors:
As it got dark, fish were popping some large Hexagenia limbata mayfly adults off the surface of the water. I had one nicer fish on that may have been either a bass or a really nice crappie. It shook free, unfortunately.
This last Hybrid Sunfish had some really colorful pinkish-orange edges to its fins. They don't show up well in the picture, but I tried. I had to use a flash because it was pretty dark out by this time.
Several different fly patterns caught fish. The best 3 patterns were a foam topwater pattern, an unweighted black Woolly Bugger, and a beadhead Woolly Bugger. Bringing the fly up and tickling the surface with it during a slow retrieve elicited the best/most strikes.
I look forward to fishing this pond again...hopefully I can get some clear shots at definite Grass Carp at some point.
I had the entire pond to myself for almost the entire evening. Despite the abundant signage declaring the pond CATCH AND RELEASE ONLY, the only other angler I saw stopped by briefly to harvest some bluegills that I assume he intended to take catfishing elsewhere. Must be the only place around that has bluegills. Not.
I had a good time. I was hoping to see some Grass Carp. There were possible Grassies in the area. What I DID see was a couple of Common Carp. At one point I had cast into an area where I thought there might be a Carp/Grass Carp. Thought I might have gotten a strike. I set the hook and spooked a big fish, as a small branch flew out of the water with my hook stuck to it. Poop.
Other than that, I just caught 3 Largemouth Bass to about 13", at least a dozen Bluegills, and 7 Hybrid Sunfish. Those Hybrid Sunfish are so colorful...I love catching them! So I took a few pics.
This was the first one of the evening, it had some interesting vertical markings..."tiger stripes":
The Hybrid Sunfish in this next picture had a lot of iridescent blue markings...it was absolutely beautiful. The picture just can't adequately capture the colors:
As it got dark, fish were popping some large Hexagenia limbata mayfly adults off the surface of the water. I had one nicer fish on that may have been either a bass or a really nice crappie. It shook free, unfortunately.
This last Hybrid Sunfish had some really colorful pinkish-orange edges to its fins. They don't show up well in the picture, but I tried. I had to use a flash because it was pretty dark out by this time.
Several different fly patterns caught fish. The best 3 patterns were a foam topwater pattern, an unweighted black Woolly Bugger, and a beadhead Woolly Bugger. Bringing the fly up and tickling the surface with it during a slow retrieve elicited the best/most strikes.
I look forward to fishing this pond again...hopefully I can get some clear shots at definite Grass Carp at some point.
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