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Comment by Steve Totten on April 14, 2013 at 5:34am

Fished with worms yesterday, San Juan Worms were working well in the heavy brush along the shores of the mighty Banana Lake.

Comment by Steve Totten on April 2, 2013 at 3:40pm

Got an absolutely gorgeous day today.  We tried one lake early this morning, nothing going on there.  Moved a few miles to another lake and they were a little more active.  The ones we caught today were all small males, just off the bedding spots in 5 to 8 feet of water.  Water temps were nudging into the seventies.  We had to leave earlier than I wanted but we got a few.

Comment by Steve Totten on March 14, 2013 at 7:57pm

Lee,  Yes, im in Lakeland, the lake I was on Saturday is in Winter Haven.  I'm hoping it has warmed up enough to turn things on, I'll find out tomorrow morning.   I made up some crayfish flies for the bass beds and some small nymphs for the gills.

The cover around these beds is all sub-emergent weeds, fifty feet from any cat tails or reeds.  This lake is very clear, we can see the bottom in ten or more feet of water.

Comment by Lee on March 14, 2013 at 7:44pm

 

 The Shellcracker seem to bed before the Bluegill and Coppernose sometimes in the same areas but Shellcracker sometimes hang around lillypads more often. Water clarity determines how deep they bed clearer water they bed deeper, A great area to look for the is where you have reeds meeting lillypads they like to bed right between the two different types of vegatation.

 

Comment by Lee on March 14, 2013 at 7:38pm

 Steve your down here in Central FLorida arent you? I've been seeing lots of Bass beds some with bass on them. I havent seen any Bream beds with fish on them yet should be seeing them soon maybe next full moon? Im fishing some spring lakes up in the Ocala Forest this weekend hopefully Ill get into some :)

Comment by dick tabbert on March 14, 2013 at 7:21pm

Thanks Ray I'll be attempting it I hope after Easter. Thought I'd start with Wolly Buggers everybody seems to like them and there is diffidently a lot of palmering on them. Thanks Ray

Comment by Ray Ditzenberger on March 14, 2013 at 5:55pm

Hey Dick T.....don't worry about palmering. Eazy Peazy. Hackle pliers help for us fumble fingers but no sweat. Just wind a litlle chenille and wind a hackle over that. A small tail is fine but not required. You can also use peacock herl as a base or just some dubbing. It all works and catches fish. The only limit is your imagination and variety of materials.

 

You want a all day floater...tie in a short tail, tie in a hackle, tie in a thin strip of craft foam...wrap the foam around the hook and tie off at the eye. Palmer the hackle to the eye and tie off and then wrap the thread back down the body working it into the palmered hackle and the back to the eye and tie off. It will float all day and if the hackle stem gets broken the extra wraps you made over the hackle will keep the hackle from unwinding. You can catch a lot of fish on one before it becomes unusable. And think of all the color combos that are possible.

Comment by dick tabbert on March 14, 2013 at 2:57pm

Wow Mark more great flies. To much palmering for me since I haven't done it yet but after seeing yours maybe something I need to do here in the near future.

Comment by jim cosgrove on March 14, 2013 at 2:21pm

awsesome work as always mark.you are a true craftsman

Comment by carl hendrix on March 11, 2013 at 7:54pm

dicky; your always pulling out some great looking flies buddy!

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