Bob La Londe wrote:
Gotta be honest with you Ken. I'm a fisherman first, and a bass angler
second. If I can go out and have a blast catching fish I don't care what
kind they are. I even own not one, not two, but three fly rods. Never
caught a bass on any of them. Lotsa trout though.

Man, that's a real shame. You owe it to yourself to target bass
with your fly rod one of these days.

When you toss one of Dave Whitlock's weedless deerhair creations
on top of a weed bed and then ever so slightly "twitch" it into
the water it doesn't disappear in swirl like it might with trout.
No, it explodes in a ferocious vortex, a heart pounding wall of
water displaced by that aquatic vacuum cleaner Mr. Largemouth.
It's a hoot.

Big smallies don't have as much flair for the dramatic when they
hit something on the surface, but they'll fight harder than a
largemouth of twice the size. There's lakes in northern Ontario
where you can catch 4 lb. smallies on a surface fly 'til you're
just too arm weary to catch anymore.

I hardly ever fish with anything other than a fly rod anymore
although I have been known to toss a gob of worms into the
Upper Mississippi, sit back in a lawn chair with a Budweiser
close to hand and wait for a channel cat who's dying to be
invited to dinner. ;-)

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Ken Fortenberry