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Postby Stan Wright » Wed Oct 09, 2013 9:36 am

:D

On Tuesday, Chris and Ed (ET from Nervous Water Fly Shop) hit the lake with a box full of newly tied flys to try out.
This is a picture of Chris with one of the larger of the over 100 largemouth and peacock bass they caught. (most were around one pound or less)

SAGE 4wt rod and a 4 pound peacock bass.
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Postby skunked » Fri Oct 11, 2013 1:12 am

Must be a great battle on a 4 wt rod!!
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Postby Stan Wright » Fri Oct 11, 2013 7:36 am

:D
Chris normally uses a 5wt fly rod with weight forward floating line (WF-5-F)...
a 6wt rod if the wind is a little stronger.

For spawning fish he likes the SAGE "Smallmouth" rod.
http://www.flyfishohio.com/Bass_Rod_Review.htm
It's shorter and stronger with a heavier weight forward line designed for throwing big bulky wind resistant bass flys.

There are so many little fish ( one pound and under) around at the moment I let him use my little 4wt rod... I haven't seen it since. :(
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Postby Pegasus » Fri Oct 11, 2013 9:09 am

Put a gold fly on the end of a bubble rig set up and watch out. Get in the right area and you can get one on every cast . They have knocked almost all of the gold flash off of mine. It looks like a set of pink eyes and a couple of strands of gold..... but they still keep biting it !

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Postby OO7:BASSINASSASSIN » Sat Oct 12, 2013 10:32 am

Hey Stan, what happen to the medium and large tucs. Do not see as many of those now. Haven't caught a tagged fish in a long time. The fish still bite the same as before but not as many in the schools. Got to work harder finding the fish.

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Postby Stan Wright » Sat Oct 12, 2013 3:09 pm

:D
Today the fish were schooling, but only stayed on the surface 2 or 3 seconds. Not long enough to cast at them. We never caught one schooling fish.
Worked the shoreline and got a bunch under a pound. One 3 pound fish.

I haven't seen or heard of any tagged peacock bass being caught.
Some of the tagged largemouth have turned up.
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Postby dingdong » Tue Nov 26, 2013 8:31 pm

It's shorter and stronger with a heavier weight forward line designed for throwing big bulky wind resistant bass flys.
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