Beautiful Morning in a Delaware Pond

[J. Rentch]

Went to a Delaware pond this morning for look for Blue Gills. Got on the water at 9:30, beside two gents in a bass boat, I had my section of the pond to myself. Started throwing a Golden Retreiver to the shoreine. On the third cast, landed my first BG of the morning. I continued drifting down the shoreline and found a small Pickerel. Lost my fly on an overhanging branch, so I tied on a Black Wooley Bugger. I continued catching fish all morning. I ended up with 12 BG, 2 Pickerel, 1 LMB, and 1 Yellow Perch. No size on anything. The largest BG was 9”. Saw signs of spring also- turtles were gathering in pairs on the bottom, serveral pairs of geese with newborns swimming. Was a great time to be out.
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[J.A. Veil]

Nice work John. You are putting in a lot of time on road trips. And you are catching fish.

[bignose]

Lol
The Wooly Bugger was the fly that got me out of fly fishing!

Once I realized that virtually every fresh water fish in Maryland would hit a size 8 Black WB, I thought of all of the time I spent tying delicate, elaborate, tiny flies for trout and suddenly fly fishing lost it's allure!
At the time I was tying flies from size 16 down to size 20 and trying to fish these while losing most of them to nearby foliage.

I think of all of the time and money I spent assembling miniscule creations, (or as one well know fly fisherman wrote-flies that have eyeballs and assholes....) and was doing that to catch fish that were smaller than some of the lures I was using to catch Rock, it kinda put things into a different perspective as it cast the whole idea in a different light.

Yeah, I know, it's an addiction........nothing like a recovered addict to help others to see the light!

BTW, any fishing puns are intended.
And I may occasionally resort to throwing tiny lures with the fly rod to tiny fish just to remind myself how much fun it was!

Thanks for the report John, I may have to dust off the gear and see if my shoulder can last more than 15 minutes!

[J. Rentch]

Thanks for the comments Stu, hope you can try some shoreline fly fishing soon. BTY-the BWB I was using was a size 10. I don’t go below 10 to tie fly-my eyes and fingers don’t cooperate anything that small.

[Mark]

Nice variety John.

I'm axious to head east for a pond outing.

And good first entry to our FSFF bluegill contest.

You've set a high bar already.