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Fishing News and Reports => Fish Pictures and Success Stories => Topic started by: 2XL on 10/28/17 15:17 UTC
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I finally got a chance to spend some time casting some plastic this morning. It was 32F, windy , with a little drizzle borderline flurries coming down when I met my friend down on the river. The bite was very slow and it took and hour and ahalf switching things up before I caught my first fish which took a blue and white bucktail fly. At least I broke the ice.
And so it went with no fish to show the next hour or so. So I switched things up to a new color Swim Shad I poured up a couple weeks ago. That and a blue and white fly seemed to be the ticket .... Relatively speaking. LOL
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I caught a 14.5" eye a whitebass then a 20.5" eye that smoked that Swim Shad. A little later I had about a 20" Tiger Musky come unbuttoned on me as I got it close to shore and a big Sheephead. LOL
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My buddy tried one of those tails and caught a 16 sauger and a 15" eye and a giant Rock Bass. LOL
Anyhow, Even though the bite was slow and I didn't catch any monsters, I am super happy with the new color Swim Shad and it was great to catch up with a couple fishing buddies whom I haven't been able to fish with since late spring.
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Awesome day. I've been trying out your walleye fly business a little myself with decent success. Nothing beats that thump on the plastic though.
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A cure for what ails ya'. Good job 2XL.
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Lookin good. I am going to try to get out and lasso some crappie tomorrow. My plastics are piling up and I need to use some. LOL
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The fly bite is uncanny. There's nothing to them and the bites are easy to miss. Unlike the whack you get with plastic, just a little tic is all you'll get with a fly. I WISH I could fish tomorrow but I have a family gig I have to go to. I feel like I did when I was a little kid and was told I HAD to go to aunt Berthas or some such thing VS playing with my friends. I just don't pout and carry on these days as much as I did back then. Hahahaha
Fall fishing on the river is my absolute hands down favorite time to fish. A chance for big fish gets me going in a big way for sure but the sights , the sounds, the smells of fall just can't be beat in my book. I look forward to it every year and get totally bummed once the river ices up for the winter. I'd be out there every day if I could pull it off.
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Happy for you that ya got out. I'm half thinking about sneaking down to the big river myself next week should time allow. I have to get ready for deer hunting on Saturday too so fishing may have to take a back seat yet.
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Very nice no matter the size of fish it was a nice day on the water
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How are you rigging the fly? I presume with a split shot on the line and letting it swing in the current?
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I fish them on a three way rig using a jig and plastic or bucktail jig as the dropper. The fly is tied onto a 3-4 foot 8to 12 pound test fluorocarbon leader. Plain Jane, no weight no nothin. I use a barrel swivel instead of a three way swivel and tie the dropper and the fly leader onto the same eye. You avoid more tangles going the barrel swivel route. It's amazing how effective these little flies are especially on bigger eyes.
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I use a barrel swivel instead of a three way swivel and tie the dropper and the fly leader onto the same eye. You avoid more tangles going the barrel swivel route.
I started doing this myself about ten years back (but I tie the dropper and the mainline to the same eye) and I definitely agree with its superior function... funny thing is now it seems I hardly ever use a streamer.
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There are a few guys around here that only fish bucktail flies they tied themselves. They use home brewed pencil weights for the dropper weight. The local bait shop sells thousands of them especially during the spring walleye run. Such a simple rig and they catch a pile of fish once you get the hang of fishing them.
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I don't get the pencil weight instead of a jig. If you use a jig/plastic or bucktail jig it's another bait you can potentuly catch fish on.
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Awesome 2XL we ended up having to work the weekend. The eye’s are on the chew by me and can’t get over there.
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Some guys will rig up 2 or 3 flies on their line Mike. Too many fancy knots to tie for this guy to do that. LOL I think the die hard fly guys just don't like using plastic or live bait. Either that or jigs and plastic are an expense they can't afford or don't want to spend money on. I like the variety pack myself = plastic and fly rig. Some days all they want is a fly while days like yesterday they liked both. You never know.
The two friends I was fishing with ended up with 5 and 4 keepers yesterday. One guy got 2 on flies and 3 on that purple/pink swim shad. The other got his 4 on flies. Would have been nice to stick around but I had to get home to plant my garlic and run a few errands. I wish I could go fishing this morning. Maybe later this afternoon I can slink down to the river for a while.
I always wondered what the bite was like up to Sac in the fall WW but I've never hauled my boat up there to find out.
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Now I'm using flies on a lake, tied on a three way trolling, but not having good luck. I've tried tipping them with a half crawler, but only caught small fish. Most of the flies I tie up have some chaetruse on them, I noticed yours where purple. I'll tie some up in blue and purple for next year, but this might be a river method.
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I have never tried flies in still waters like lakes and ponds and I'm not so sure how effective they would be. I think having some current is what makes these flies shine but that's only a guess. They do have a nice minnow action in the water when you twitch or pop them along. I'll be tying a bunch of them this winter.
I fish mostly purples and blues but have fished many colors. All of them are two colored flies and all of them have a few strands of crystal flash inn them. The one in the picture above is blue and white with a few strands of red crystal flash in it.
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Same here 2XL, up until yesterday we always fished for trout in rivers. They worked well yesterday in the park pond, but the wind was blowing about 25 mph creating a current along the shore, and that's where they were hitting. Must have been enough water motion to give the marabou some action, other than what you could impart with the rod.
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Wadding gets the fish for me at the dam but i have done well in the boat too. You just have remember to drive slow and stay to the right side going up to the dam there two rock humps on the left.
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I don't think I've ever been up to Sac in a boat and not heard someone hitting rocks. A guy I know punched a 2 inch hole in the bottom of his brand new Alumicraft up there. LOTS of aluminum plated rocks in that stretch.
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LOL..aluminum plated rocks!
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That makes sense now that you say they use multiple flies. I'm like you, I like the variety. I consider the jig and plastic my main bait and the fly for some bonus fish.
I use the flies in a lake near me and catch yellow bass crappies and walleyes on them. I tie a little shorter leader on the fly end and always fish them with a jig and plastic. I just fish it as I normally would fish a jig and plastic wich is either cast with a lift drop retrieve back to the boat or drift and vertical jig. I have noticed on the slower days i will get most fish on the fly.
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What about a floating gum drop plastic jig and minnow on the top rig? Anyone tried that?
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I would imagine it would work great. I'm just stubborn and hate using live bait lol.
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I used to use floating jigheads on 3 ways using cane poles to fish for walleyes. You put a reel on a cane pole tie up a 3 way rig and drop it to the bottom. Tighten your line then put the cane pole in a rod holder and let the current do it's thing with the bait. Pretty low tech but it was a fun way to spend the day or night with a friend beside the lantern having a beer or two waiting for a bite. I imagine a guy could use a floating jighead instead of a fly but the flies are so productive and you don't have to mess with live bait.
Mike I have only seen one or two guys tie three flies on a leader before and few more with two flies on the same leader but some of the hard core fly guys only use a pencil weight and one fly.
A bucktail jig used as a dropper works pretty darn good too. Most guys favor the Flat Head Jig for their bucktail droppers. They call them current cutters around here.