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I had a three day weekend and I fished briefly on Sunday and Monday. Sunday I fished long enough to get poison ivy. Monday I fished long enough to hook into the largest smallmouth bass I've ever had on the end of my fly rod.
Sunday report was a very small flow that I'm not sure I even know the name of it.
Caught poison ivy and 4 species of fish. Green sunfish. Red breasted sunfish. Fallfish. and Smallmouth bass.
The smallmouth was pretty good size for how small the flow was. It was about 10 or 11 inches long. I also caught 2 or 3 fallfish that were in the 12-13 inch range, but I didn't get any photos of them.
Monday I went to a larger flow that I hadn't fished for a few years. Water was low and clear, but warm. It was around 90 degrees air temperature and I was fishing from around 4PM until 5:30PM.
Pretty quickly I caught a couple of tiny bluegills/sunfish and lost a dink smallie. Then a while later I casted into the center of the flow and hooked into the largest smallmouth bass I've ever had on the end of a fly rod. Since I was using a Tenkara rod, I kep the rod raised high. The fish darted to the right down stream a bit and then the fish jumped out of the water and was eye level with me. It was large and very dark colored. The fish was about 20 feet away from me. After the jump it dug down to the bottom (only about 3 feet deep where we were) gave a few more tugs, and then was gone. I figured it had broken my line, but was surprised to find the hook broke. As I was looking at the fly, the beast surfaced and jumped again about 10 feet down river. I'm guessing it wasn't happy with the hook still in its' mouth. The rest of the fishing was unremarkable. I had another smallmouth bass on and it also came off.
Sunday report was a very small flow that I'm not sure I even know the name of it.
Caught poison ivy and 4 species of fish. Green sunfish. Red breasted sunfish. Fallfish. and Smallmouth bass.
The smallmouth was pretty good size for how small the flow was. It was about 10 or 11 inches long. I also caught 2 or 3 fallfish that were in the 12-13 inch range, but I didn't get any photos of them.
Monday I went to a larger flow that I hadn't fished for a few years. Water was low and clear, but warm. It was around 90 degrees air temperature and I was fishing from around 4PM until 5:30PM.
Pretty quickly I caught a couple of tiny bluegills/sunfish and lost a dink smallie. Then a while later I casted into the center of the flow and hooked into the largest smallmouth bass I've ever had on the end of a fly rod. Since I was using a Tenkara rod, I kep the rod raised high. The fish darted to the right down stream a bit and then the fish jumped out of the water and was eye level with me. It was large and very dark colored. The fish was about 20 feet away from me. After the jump it dug down to the bottom (only about 3 feet deep where we were) gave a few more tugs, and then was gone. I figured it had broken my line, but was surprised to find the hook broke. As I was looking at the fly, the beast surfaced and jumped again about 10 feet down river. I'm guessing it wasn't happy with the hook still in its' mouth. The rest of the fishing was unremarkable. I had another smallmouth bass on and it also came off.
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