Question? How many fly fisherman in our area?

[ozark trout fisher]

1 hour ago, Al Agnew said:

Yep, bluegill are great fun...but the only thing I have against bluegill on the fly rod or any other tackle that matches their size is that they all tend to be the same size.  That might be 6-7 inches if the place isn't in good balance, or 9-10 inches if you find a good pond, or even a little bigger in that terrific spot.  But I just like the possibility of catching a fish or two that's considerably bigger than the average for the waters.  The occasional much larger bass you catch while bluegill fishing is nice, though.  For me, bluegill fishing is mainly a way of getting fish to eat, but the fly rod makes it a lot of fun for a while. 

Bluegill fishing on those late spring/summer evenings when they are hitting any surface fly with reckless abandon is great fun. It's not all that different from fishing a great hatch on a stillwater trout pond, except your odds of getting embarrassed by a pod of selective fish are pretty much non-existent. In fact, you can generally get away with whatever fly fits your mood on a given evening. My favorite is an Ausable Wulff, if for no other reason than the consternation it would cause some to see this all-caps Proper Eastern Dry Fly get used on bluegill in a weedy Missouri pond.

Unless I'm in the mood for a fish fry, though (which certainly can happen) I don't much care to chase them with any fly that doesn't float.

Although most all of my bass flies catch big bluegills on occasion, and when that happens the fight is always ferocious enough for a few seconds that I think I've got a good bass on before it suddenly decides to give up. The weird, all-then-nothing fight you get from big bluegill is certainly one of their more unique characteristics as a fly rod target, though I have yet to decide if its a positive or a negative. 

[Mitch f]

15 hours ago, bkbying89 said:

I like wine. Do you ever introduce those guys to the art of fly fishing?

 

Bill

Since I don't know how, I'll leave it up to the experts!

[BilletHead]

On 8/3/2017 at 9:11 PM, Mitch f said:

Every time I attend a party with my wife's friends in Clayton, I always get introduced as "This is my husband, he loves to fish". Then one of the husbands comes over later holding a glass of wine and says "I've always wanted to fly fish"...happens every time.

I guess to them it's NASCAR vs Formula 1 all over again.

Good grief Mitch! 

  We prefer beer over wine, NASCAR over formula one but fly fishing over any other type of fishing. I suppose we could rate you as a small mouth elitiest that may prefer wine and fancy race cars? 

   How can you not like this in some of the remote places in Utah? 

  The BilletHeads 

 PS , still love you brother 😀

[Mitch f]

6 hours ago, BilletHead said:

Good grief Mitch! 

  We prefer beer over wine, NASCAR over formula one but fly fishing over any other type of fishing. I suppose we could rate you as a small mouth elitiest that may prefer wine and fancy race cars? 

   How can you not like this in some of the remote places in Utah? 

  The BilletHeads 

 PS , still love you brother 😀

Ye protesteth too much! I promise I don't wear a flat bill, which apparently is much worse than conventional fishing! 

Anyway just rubbing ya'll!!! Although I cant believe I had to say it!

BTW, nice fish Marty!

[BilletHead]

      Thanks Mitch!

Just wait until we get home for a report. Much to share and still have a week to explore out here. Even then don't want to come home but Mrs. BilletHead will need to go back to work.

  BilletHead

[joeD]

Would that Utah minnow be as beautiful if it was caught on a spinning rod? 

 

[MoCarp]

bummer

[MOPanfisher]

23 hours ago, Mitch f said:

Ye protesteth too much! I promise I don't wear a flat bill, which apparently is much worse than conventional fishing! 

Anyway just rubbing ya'll!!! Although I cant believe I had to say it!

BTW, nice fish Marty!

I think I would rather have a fishing partner in yoga pants than one wearing a flat brim ball cap.  I honestly don't know why it bothers me so much but it does.  As to the original question, am I a fly fisherman, nope don't think so but I do enjoy fishing g with a fly rod occasionally and would probably do it more if I just carried it more or knew how to fish a streamer for whites.

[Johnsfolly]

On ‎8‎/‎6‎/‎2017 at 1:57 PM, BilletHead said:

Good grief Mitch! 

  We prefer beer over wine, NASCAR over formula one but fly fishing over any other type of fishing. I suppose we could rate you as a small mouth elitiest that may prefer wine and fancy race cars? 

   How can you not like this in some of the remote places in Utah? 

  The BilletHeads 

 PS , still love you brother 😀

Let's see I prefer Indycar and  F1 over NASCAR, wine or craft beer over Budweiser, and would fish a drainage ditch with a thread and safety pin loaded up with a nightcrawler ! I must be some kind of snob, just not sure what kind!

[joeD]

A snob would be wrongfuly called by others, never self described.