The best fish

....are the ones caught on your own patterns.

Got 2 nice smallmouth, some redbreast sunfish (a 12" redbreast sunfish is a
mighty scrappy little fish), and a rock bass on woolly bugger variant in the
Neshaminy Creek. The previous evening got some redbreast sunfish and an 11"
rock bass in the Tohickon Creek. Unfortunately the Tohickon is flooded for
Kayak rides right now, so it's near impossible to wade.

Timothy Juvenal

"VibraJet" wrote in message
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...are the ones caught on your own patterns.

Got 2 nice smallmouth, some redbreast sunfish (a 12" redbreast sunfish is
a
mighty scrappy little fish),


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.

snakefiddler

and a rock bass on woolly bugger variant in the
Neshaminy Creek. The previous evening got some redbreast sunfish and an
11"
rock bass in the Tohickon Creek. Unfortunately the Tohickon is flooded
for
Kayak rides right now, so it's near impossible to wade.

Timothy Juvenal

"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.

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

Timothy Juvenal

"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.

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

Timothy Juvenal

"VibraJet" wrote in message
...

"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

"VibraJet" wrote in message
...

"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

"VibraJet" wrote in message
...

"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

"snakefiddler" wrote in message
...

"VibraJet" wrote in message
...

"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,


sorry to reply to my own post- needed to make a correction- i meant long
eared sunfish- don't know where i came up with black eared :-)

snake



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


my own stuff snipped for brevity


Timothy Juvenal