This one was an inch short of my best SM of the year. I know it is exactly 19 inches because that is the length of my net opening. Most of the time I don't use the net even though it is made of the soft rubber. But when they get big, sometimes they get a bit frisky when they finally see what's up. Must be pretty scary to see this super large loon with flippers and dark rubber body. Got one more this size and several in the 2# range. Again, we were at one of these so-called private lakes. Part of the lake has public land bordering it. We didn't use that access but walked along a large boundary between two properties. I started up with a dry line thinking that since I had a long leader and a weighted fly in around 10 FOW, I should be getting down sufficiently but my partner had landed three fish to my none with his #3 sink, I switched to my #4 sink and started to catch right away. Again, fly is not that important, but depth and presentation does.
Surface temp is 72F. It is getting time to go trouting! That is what I prefer to do. Fishing for bass is pretty easy. In the words of the late Brian Graves, "If you're not catching bass, you're not in the water". Flyfishing for trout takes much more skill and you get to use all those tiny flies you've been making all winter in weird and wonderful ways.
Surface temp is 72F. It is getting time to go trouting! That is what I prefer to do. Fishing for bass is pretty easy. In the words of the late Brian Graves, "If you're not catching bass, you're not in the water". Flyfishing for trout takes much more skill and you get to use all those tiny flies you've been making all winter in weird and wonderful ways.
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