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Fishing local

7/16/2012

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I've often said that fishing in waters close to home is the best.  If it is less than 15 minutes from home, you can go often and with short notice to the rest of the family.  For me that is the Mississippi River at Blakeney.  Often the fisihing isn't as good as further afield but the idea that one can have supper and for no reason other than the constant inherant desire to fish as much as you possibly can, you annnounce, "I think I'll go fishing".  I had to paddle almost an hour before I got my first bite but it was a 16 inch SM.  I thought that with the warm weather that  they might be deeper and so I started off with my #3 sink and slowly went along with twitches.  Also some casts to shore.  But that was not to be successful.  I don't think with bass that your fly is all that important.  Being at the right depth is most important and presentation is second.  I eventually saw some action on the surface and they weren't small fish.  I quickly switched over to dry and put on a foam popper which I had just made the evening before and voila, I had the only fish of the evening.  It was time to head back.  I was satisfied!  Next time I will run past the unproductive water and go to where I have caught before.  In evening fishing you don't have time to waste.
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10/1/2013 02:14:09 pm

Thanks for a great read.

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