I've been doing quite a bit of microfishing lately. Felt the need to catch some larger fish.
Went after Grass Carp on fly.... Caught 10! Six were caught in the span of 43 minutes!
Also caught 3 Largemouth Bass, Green Sunfish, Hybrid Sunfish, Bluegill, 2 White Bass and 3 Freshwater Drum.
Knocked another one off the list! Caught my Flyfer Northern Sunfish!
Drove 8 hours (round trip) on Saturday. Caught a dozen or so.
That completes this list on fly (which doesn't include the recently separated Longear species):
I've put in some effort, for sure. I'd like to say I saw this fish and presented the fly to him.... but it was pure luck. I did not see it at all. I lifted the fly from the water and the fish was already on it. I saw and presented to many smaller darters...a few were even hooked briefly. I'd like to know where these bigger ones hide. It's still a mystery to me.
No pressure, @Ham .... but I've put a LOT OF MONEY on a parlay on both FanDuel and DraftKings... on you reaching your goal of 2nd Consecutive Year of 100 Species on Fly. My retirement and my son's grad school is riding on this. Again... no pressure!
#2, 3, 4, 6, and 7.... Are "goals accomplished" thus far.... ALL because @Ham researched locations and put us on those fish. He certainly deserves a great deal of the credit for all of those... and he also gets credit for encouraging me enough to put in the windshield time to go fish with him!
Next trip to that spot, I went upstream instead of downstream. 10 Species this trip. 3 Flyfers... Bigeye Shiner, Ozark Minnow, and finally an adult darter landed (not counting the logperch, which is a darter)... an Orangethroat Darter:
The Louisiana fish are in a post of their own.
Since returning.... I've made a couple "micro" trips... because @Ham said "I've got a Darter spot you should try. Close to you."
First trip resulted in catching 9 species. Two most interesting were a very small Walleye, and Flyfer Ozark Logperch!
I got a couple more pics of @Ham :
Ham caught 2 or 3 or more Redfish that had multiple spots.... which is always kinda cool. This was one of those:
Black Drum:
Ham's first (of many!) Alligator Gar!
I mean.... c'mon! 😍
It's great we don't take ourselves too seriously. We did have a couple bragging sessions on just who exactly caught the SMALLEST ones...