In Need Of Buffalo And Sucker Help/fly Fishing

[esox niger]

Darth clam worked only if you call snagging fish right above their lip any fun. unbelievably i caught two like this with 1/2 an hour..one downstream drift the other with upstream drift. how did i do that? makes me feel accurate. but otherwise duped. I wish i knew exactly what these fish are doing all day so i could catch them.

[Bird Watcher]

FWIW, there is a place down here by me in SE Kansas that I have caught tons of carp and buffalo on a fly rod. It is an old spillway on a shallow muddy impoundment. The spillway is covered in hair like green moss and algae. We started by using ultralight spinning rods and wrapping a wad of moss on our hook. When dead drifted in below the spillway, carp and buffalo nail it. No kidding, explosive strikes. So I started tying some flies to look like big balls of moss. Nothing real complicated, just a big wad of dark green chenelle and maribou. It worked, I could go down there any night after work and catch 2-6 fish. I think it was a bit of a unique situation though. The spillway, the moss, I think made the fish look for drifting balls of moss to feed on.

[Gavin]

An olive or green mohair leach sounds perfect in that situation...FWIW...I had a 16" redhorse hit a F-11 rapala on the Huzzah the other day...that fish must have been confused or something. Cheers.