Mid-October 2017

Flyfishing for bass has steadily slowed, although I still see them chasing baitfish.  I just can't get them to hit what I'm throwing at them.  Could be more my problem than theirs.

I'm getting a few crappies, but not as many as I think I should be:

Once in awhile, I'll get a Pumkinseed Sunfish:

Or Hybrid Sunfish:

Some bluegills, but again....not as many as I think I should be getting.

Its getting later in the year, so I'm not sure how long I can expect to get Common Carp and Channel Catfish....but I have caught some while flyfishing during my lunch hours recently.

...and another picture of the same 21" catfish....I couldn't decide which picture I liked better:

Early October

The weather was warm for the first week, but plummeted the following week.  Wind picked up.
Largemouth Bass have been hitting good, on anything from topwaters to subsurface streamers  and shad imitations, and even on smaller panfish- and crappie-sized fly patterns like microjigs and small woolly buggers.

I had one particularly good morning at a local pond where I caught @ 25 bass, including four that measured 17", and another 4-5 that were in the 15"-16" range.  Amongst other patterns that caught fish, dark olive #6 DDH Leeches performed exceptionally well that day.

I've also been picking up a few crappies here and there, on the shad flies, microjigs, and #8 mylar buggers.

I've caught a couple green sunfish.

And a couple Pumpkinseed Sunfish and Hybrid Sunfish.

I've caught some bluegills, but nearly as many as I feel I should be.  This is kind of odd.

Late September 2017

Flyfishing and the weather has been good.  Bass are still hitting topwaters, but I have also been experimenting with some subsurface fly patterns, mainly baitfish (shad) imitations.  I caught fish on almost all of them.

2nd Week of September 2017

Flyfishing over the past week could be described as really slow to decent.  It would be a stretch to call it "good".  But catching any fish at all is still fun, that's why we do it.