I tricked um

[dick tabbert]

Been fishing on the pond for awhile but doing little to no good so I'll set the rod down and throw in a hand full of feed and cast out and still very little actin but they explode on the fish food. Well tonight all that changed. I have all this foam on here for flies so I took a hole punch and punched me out about 4 hole punches (brown) put them in my pocket. When I went out tonight I grabed the 4WT fly rod with a bare hook put a punch on it and low and behold I'm in business again. The Hybrid Stripper took all my line to the backer and I ain't lying when I say what a blast. It took awhile to get him to shore but It was a great time and I'm here to tell you if I had the 2WT like I wanted I wouldn't have caught that fish I don' believe. The hybrid was a little over 18" then I caught a Hybrid Bluegill 8 1/2" and a gill at about 8".

[dick tabbert]

Mark if they feed the fish pellets this may be the cats meow. I can go down to the pond and might catch a fish and as soon as I gave up on them and threw the feed out there they wold explode on it they were there but just wanted the feed so I came up with the idea to make a pellet out of brown foam about the color of the pellets that I do feed then and it worked. Hope this does indeed help you and other people that's why I put it out there for all to see maybe this will help.

[John Sheehan]

Great story of trickery and fantastic flyrod catch with the Striper Dick!!

[dick tabbert]

Yea John that was fun for sure. My goal is to catch one of them gritter on my new 2wt and don't think I can do it but never the less going to keep at it. When I had the pond dug I put about 5 concrete fish shelters in it about 4 foot square and 5 foot high. That's usually where they go when hooked and the 2wt don't have the back bone to keep them from going into them to be truthful I think it was a fluck catching the one I caught with the 4wt.

[Vince Fusco]

That had to be unreal catching them on the fly rod, Dick. About all I could compare that to would be a 3lb carp I caught on my 5-6 wt flyrod many years ago. 

[dick tabbert]

I'm not lying it was a definite high especially since I'm just starting out this year and don't know why it took me so long to get started.