"VibraJet" wrote in message
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"snakefiddler" wrote...

i get a lot of red breast sunfish when i lake fish here. they are
georgous
fish - one of my favorites. they're small, but they do put up a good
fight,
and one is doing well to successsfully avoid that sharp dorsal fin,
while
"de-hooking" it. i usually get them with one of big dales's olive
spiders,
and sliders- but mostly with the olives.


They hang out with the smallmouth and rock bass around here.

i guess here they hang out with black eared sunfish, and bluegill here,
'cause those are the others i get along with them. mybe there are some
bass, too and i just haven't seen them. but in one of the lakes i have
gotten them in, people do seem to pull out a lot of trout- on spin rods with
night crawlers, and power bait.

Try holding them upside down while removing the hook - helps to keep them
still.

thanks for the tip. i had a hard time getting the fly out of the mouth of a
sunfish the other day. it was a slider, and i think the damned fish just
inhaled it, because it was well inside his mouth. i took my time- a few
minutes- and carefully worked the hook out. i wasn't concerned with losing
the fly, so much as leaving it in his mouth, as it was positioned in such a
way that i felt it would cause the fish trouble before the hook could rust
away. anyway, i got out my hemostats, and carefully worked it out with the
same kind of motion used to extract a tooth. who would have thought that 17
years in dentistry would help me out with fly fishin :-). the story ended
well. i was able to get the hook out, no blood spilled, and no gooey tissue
on the hook, so i guess it was a pretty clean job.

snakefiddler--(who was just a little concerned about instant karma over that
one)

Timothy Juvenal