03-29-2012, 01:28 AM
Thats right TyeDyeTwin busted out a fly rod for a whole day!!! I went back to my cutty spot with Catcherman since I was told what to use yesterday. This time I left the spinning rod sit in the mud while I got my groove on with the fly rod. Man it was a blast and somewhat aggravating at times. Wondered a few times how people found this sport relaxing?
Took me a while to figure out a leader tippet connection so I went for a swivel and a strange bubble like indicator for fly fishing, since I forgot the styrofoam indicators at home.
Holy crap "wind" is a 4 letter word to me now! Tangle after tangle occurred requiring re-rigging several times. Even harder when your buddy is reeling in fish and getting bites on the spin rod while you rig back up over and over again. He tried several times to get me back to the spin rod but I said nay nay, today is my fly day!
I got 8 Cutts and lost 12 cutts (some were 15 plus inches lost right at shore) and missed 20 or so hits. Catcherman got 12 cutts, lost just a few, and missed lots of bites. I was using Midges all day. Catcherman was using midges and hand tied marabous on is spinning rod. Near 4 pm while it was raining there was a hatch of flyi bugs and the place was full of boils! Too bad I have no idea what those were. Great now I need dry flies too. We arrived at 10 am and stayed till 4:45pm. The cutts were full of milt. The spawn is close!
Catcherman's Cutts
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My 1st fly rod cutts.
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Took me a while to figure out a leader tippet connection so I went for a swivel and a strange bubble like indicator for fly fishing, since I forgot the styrofoam indicators at home.
Holy crap "wind" is a 4 letter word to me now! Tangle after tangle occurred requiring re-rigging several times. Even harder when your buddy is reeling in fish and getting bites on the spin rod while you rig back up over and over again. He tried several times to get me back to the spin rod but I said nay nay, today is my fly day!
I got 8 Cutts and lost 12 cutts (some were 15 plus inches lost right at shore) and missed 20 or so hits. Catcherman got 12 cutts, lost just a few, and missed lots of bites. I was using Midges all day. Catcherman was using midges and hand tied marabous on is spinning rod. Near 4 pm while it was raining there was a hatch of flyi bugs and the place was full of boils! Too bad I have no idea what those were. Great now I need dry flies too. We arrived at 10 am and stayed till 4:45pm. The cutts were full of milt. The spawn is close!
Catcherman's Cutts
My 1st fly rod cutts.
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