first catch on the fly rod

"Big Dale" wrote in message
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snakefidler wrote:snipwhich was followed by a trip to bass lake

One morning during Waldo's Spring Fling Waldo took Frank and I over to
bass
lake and we had some fun for a couple of hours. You won't be doing much
wading
in that lake if you were fishing where we were. The little black and olive
flies I sent you are called Cap Spiders and are tied on 1/124 ounce
crappie
jugs so they sink. If the fish do not want to take the flies off the
surface,
then try one of the Cap spiders and slowly crawl them along the bottom.


cool- manipulating these things is a good part of the fun



They
work pretty good at times. Nothing works great all the time, but I have
caught
so many fish on these two kind of flies that they are my "go to" flies.
The
only way to get used to hooking them is to keep doing it. That is why is
suggested learning on bluegill...you get more chances in a morning than on
trout in most cases. When I fished bass lake I kept hanging my flies in
the
trees on the backcast. I hope you decorated a tree or two while you were
there
also. grin.

i did get my line caught in a tree once, but happily it settled on a low
branch, so i was able to retrieve it. i am following the instructions from
the video that frank sent, and casted by raising my arm from the 9:00
position to 12:00- without bending my wrist. that part wasn't too
difficult- controlling the "excess" line as it went through the rod was more
tricky, and i had diffficulty with the power stroke. of course, since i
don't have eyes in the back of my head, i had no way to judge the quality of
my loops. G
i'm workin on it,though.

snakefiddler





Keep it up and have fun with this.

Big Dale

Boy this CRS stuff sure kicks in sometimes. Now it seems like that day that
Waldo took Frank Church and I over to Bass Lake both Frank andIi were skunked
and it pains me to say that since I have been playing with fly rods since the
early 50's.I can't even remember whether Waldo caught one or two fish, but Bass
Lake was some very tough fishing. Beautiful and I would not take any amount of
money for those couple of hours, but it had to do with the friends, not the
fish that we caught.

Big Dale