I eased the boat along the shoreline watching David cast. The tiny fish were being chased by the 6 to 8 inch baby peacock bass. They ate our flys with wild abandon.
Here's David with his first peacock bass.
This is another view of one of David's many scrappy little peacock bass.
(what ever is closest to the camera looks the biggest... A 6 foot fish???? NOT.
Suddenly the water all around the boat erupted with schooling peacock bass. They were feeding on tiny 1 inch long shad... which perfectly matched out little white streamer flys.
Unfortunately, the sight and sounds of all those feeding fish kind of un-nerved David and he forgot everything he had ever learned about casting a fly rod. I'm sure my screaming didn't help.... "Cast! Cast! Strip! Strip! Faster! Faster!"
(Here I teach him everything I know.... and he still don't know nothing!)
Fortunately the peacock bass were in a feeding mood and didn't care about our casting skills. As long as the fly was moving (faster was better) they would bite.
This is an average size peacock bass we were catching. Just over 2 pounds.
The more David cast that fly rod the better he got. I lost count of how many fish he caught. David has used spinning tackle all his life, and once the fish was hooked on his new fly rod, he played it with great skill. Take this 4 1/4 pounder that was chasing baby peacock bass along the shore. Perfect cast, hookup, and about 5 minutes later, into the net. With a little more casting practice, I'd put David and his fly rod up against anyone.
