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After weeks of snow flurries followed by brief encounters with warm temperatures FINALLY a break. A midday river trip brought a couple of smallmouths of 10 inches to hand along with a number of longear sunfish. All were in a Continue reading →
We finally got a bit of warmth, but (no surprise) it’s very windy. Seven-weights coped with the wind but the bass had lockjaw. A switch to yellow Bully’s Bluegill Spiders located bluegills at 4 feet near brush piles. A 9 Continue reading →
Cold, rain, hail, and wind have fish scattered and reluctant to feed. Rivers are still high but clearing. An exploratory trip with 7-wt. sink-tip line and dark size-8 streamers produced three male white bass. Drove to a small pond Continue reading →
Water temperature is a critical factor in early spring. For the past few weeks temperatures in small ponds have fluctuated enough to cause fish to be scattered. We caught bluegills to 8 1/2 inches and largemouth bass to 15 Continue reading →
After a week of heavy rain a 57-degree day with full sun sent us to see if a favorite small pond was replenished. Thankfully, it’s completely full so a 5-weight was pieced together. The sun-warmed surface was 50-degrees while 3 Continue reading →
Two days of sunshine which warm the upper layer of pond water enabled us to cast over deep water and retrieve small streamers at a depth of 2 to 3 feet. Bluegills ignore the bright sunlight that normally forces their Continue reading →
Our new book The Bluegill Diaries: A Fly Fishing Chronicle is available on Amazon.com. The book is available in soft cover or purchase the Kindle version. We have lots of stories to tell, and lots of advice to offer bluegill Continue reading →
