Central Iowa Flyfishing - May 2020

[FishnDave]

Getting our house ready for sale here in Iowa, in preparation for our move to StL in another month or so....hasn't left much time to go fishing.

A friend gifted me some material to tie flies with.  Its kind of like faux rabbit fur. I like it, so I tied a Gamechanger with it...about 3.5" long.

I took it fishing for a bit.  It swims really well, and doesn't sink very fast, so its a good fly for shallower water presentations.

I managed to fool a bass with it:

I also squeezed in a little time yesterday during my lunch hour.  Hit a local public pond. It was cooler, windy, with some raindrops falling. I used a microjig under an indicator and caught a couple bluegills.  Then I switched to a Howitzer Popper.  Had a few missed strikes from what were probably smaller fish (panfish).  I moved out of the wind a bit to a shallow area where algae is already starting to grow.  Watched a wake zip towards the popper and caught my first topwater bass of the season.

Fished back towards where my car was parked.  Made one last cast before heading back home. A nicer bass hit the popper.  18".

 

[FishnDave]

Lotsa spots on this little channel cat from yesterday evening:

[Johnsfolly]

On 5/5/2020 at 11:51 AM, FishnDave said:

Getting our house ready for sale here in Iowa, in preparation for our move to StL in another month or so....hasn't left much time to go fishing.

A friend gifted me some material to tie flies with.  Its kind of like faux rabbit fur. I like it, so I tied a Gamechanger with it...about 3.5" long.

I took it fishing for a bit.  It swims really well, and doesn't sink very fast, so its a good fly for shallower water presentations.

I managed to fool a bass with it:

I also squeezed in a little time yesterday during my lunch hour.  Hit a local public pond. It was cooler, windy, with some raindrops falling. I used a microjig under an indicator and caught a couple bluegills.  Then I switched to a Howitzer Popper.  Had a few missed strikes from what were probably smaller fish (panfish).  I moved out of the wind a bit to a shallow area where algae is already starting to grow.  Watched a wake zip towards the popper and caught my first topwater bass of the season.

Fished back towards where my car was parked.  Made one last cast before heading back home. A nicer bass hit the popper.  18".

 

Love catching bass on topwater poppers. Congrats on another Iowa Toad!