Members Woodchuck Posted April 26, 2007 Members Posted April 26, 2007 Is it feasable to fish a lake with fly gear? Would you use a boat or the bank or either?
Members armyflyfisher Posted April 26, 2007 Members Posted April 26, 2007 Not only is it "feasable" but it's a hoot to fish for warm water species. I love the look on hardware chuckers' faces, in their zooted up bass boats when they round a bend in the shore and see me waist deep in the water, fly rod dancing with a bluegill or bass tugging on my line. I was on a small lake on FT Leonard Wood tonight, fishing a size 10 attractor (yellow dubbing with a black hackle palmered on - looks like a bee) and managed to catch a half dozen little brute 'gills and a LMB in about an hour of casting. I think it's more than feasable - I think it's fun!!! David
Danoinark Posted April 26, 2007 Posted April 26, 2007 When I RE discovered flyfishing back in 95', I took a fly rod up to Bull Shoals at Diamond City one fall evening. While walking the shore I fished a small yellow popping bug and caught the biggest bucketmouth I have ever caught by any means. I also love to fish farm ponds with a fly rod. You never know what you might pull out of one of them. Dano Glass Has Class "from the laid back lane in the Arkansas Ozarks"
Crippled Caddis Posted April 26, 2007 Posted April 26, 2007 Dano wrote: <While walking the shore I fished a small yellow popping bug and caught the biggest bucketmouth I have ever caught by any means.> If the IRS ever finds out how much fun you can have in a cove at twilight with a handfull of poppers they'll tax it out of the range of the average fisherman. And we'd better pray that they don't find out about a big bed of spawning Redear and a box of rubber spiders! <I also love to fish farm ponds with a fly rod. You never know what you might pull out of one of them.> I've never quite figured out exactly what is just so inherently RIGHT about the combination of flyrods and farm ponds but by comparison ham and eggs clash! Same thing for small creeks. If there's a more innocent and enjoyable pasttime than wetwading a small creek for panfish and small bass I haven't yet discovered it. "You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in their struggle for independence." ---Charles Austin Beard
SilverMallard Posted April 26, 2007 Posted April 26, 2007 There are entire websites and books and videos dedicated to stillwater fly fishing, which is what they call fishing lakes and ponds. But it is different than stream fishing. You can fish poppers, hoppers, and dries on the surface. But subsurface fly fishing in stillwaters requires some specialized gear and different tactics. A lot of float-tubers fish stillwater. You need sinking lines, a bit heavier rods, and they fish a lot of streamers, chironomid nymphs, and macro-invertebrates. SilverMallard "How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of - and which no other people on Earth enjoy." Thomas Jefferson (This disclaimer is to state that any posts of a questionable nature are to be interpreted by the reader at their own peril. The writer of this post in no way supports the claims made in this post, or takes resposibility for their interpretations or uses. It is at the discretion of the reader to wrestle through issues of sarcasm, condescension, snobbery, lunacy, left and or right wing conspiracies, lying, cheating, wisdom, enlightenment, or any form of subterfuge contained herein.)
Terry Beeson Posted April 26, 2007 Posted April 26, 2007 Anywhere you can fish with "conventional" rigs, you can fish with a fly rod... period... Now... to add... Fly fishing for bass is some of the best fun you'll ever have. Especially using top water flies such as poppers and hoppers. Even the smaller bass seem to attack the right popper like it is their first meal in a month!! Do you "need" special equipment? Not necessarily. I've fished with floating line and done OK. I've landed a 4 lb LMB on a 3 wt. I've landed 2 1/2 inch bluegill on an 8 wt... Yes you need sinking line or sink tips to get down deeper with streamers in still water OR streams. Depends on what you are after and how they are biting. Fish from the bank, wading, boat, canoe, yak, Brason Belle, float tube, pontoon, helicopter, large piece of driftwood, whatever... just put the fly in the water... One fun thing to do is find a pond with some catfish that are being fed. Throw out some fish food, get them a bit stirred up, then fling a popper in the middle of the frey... WOW... talk about putting a bend in your pole!!! And bluegill on a popper with a dropper is very kewl as well... I was fishing a lake in a park in Jonesboro last summer. There was a family that walked up and set up camp on the bank just over from me. They were chucking worms and crickets and doing OK, but the dad noticed I was hauling in gill after gill on my dropper rig. Well, he asked me about it, so I gave him one of the dropper flies - one I call "Mr. Buell's Bream Getter" after the fellow that taught me to tie it. He had a weighted float so he could cast it with his spin/cast rig OK and he started catching fish... I kinda had a grin on my face as I left... Simple tie: Size 14-10 hook Black thread a few wraps of lead optional Krystal Flash tail medium chenille body - black with flash in the middle if you can find it is good. rubber legs That's IT! TIGHT LINES, YA'LL "There he stands, draped in more equipment than a telephone lineman, trying to outwit an organism with a brain no bigger than a breadcrumb, and getting licked in the process." - Paul O’Neil
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