Pound and a half and two pound Bass on a fly rod sounds like loads of fun to me.

 Bill don't you just hate it when them pesky green fish do that to you! Nice job with the Antique Fly Rod.

Shooter, great method! I normally put the weight near the center to prevent deep gutting, but I may have to push my weight a little down like you. I noticed that not many hookset could be done due to the weight near the center since the hardness of the weight caused them to spit out quickly.

Trying to figure out how to post a pic.

Looks like you did a great job in figuring out how to post photos. We need an FAQs section on the far right to instruct members on how to upload and post things, with easy step-by-step.

I will take a look. Thanks

Ray, if you still need help with posting photos and videos, let us know. We'll be glad to teach you how. It's not complicated, but it's a very small learning curve that you just have to put up until you get used to it.

I am still looking for the FAQ.

Unfortunately, there's no FAQs section yet. However, the question has been answered in the past. I'm requesting the admins of the group to create an FAQs section to answer these common inquiries with detailed step-by-step, with pictures.

Here are some instructional approaches:
http://bigbluegill.com/forum/topics/2036984:Topic:6496?commentId=20...

http://bigbluegill.com/group/HOWTO/forum/topics/how-to-upload-pictu...

Too bloody windy today so I made some more bugs

Thanks for the photos, Steve.  I'm going to imitate some of them.

Bob Parker, in Iowa.

 Nice selection Steve! Makes me think it's about time for another flyswap :)

 I went out Sat morning then the wind came up by 9am and sent me home, Sunday was a complete blowout 15-20mph winds with gust to 25. Even my lil pond outback had Whitecaps on it! Stayed in and tied up a few foam bugs.

these are my favorites

HEY MR. TOTTEN AND DAVE KENSINGER  YOU BOTH HAVE SOME GREAT LOOKING BUGS HERE !!!!!!!!!!! BET THE GILLS AND OTHER PANFISH JUST EAT EM UP......

whew Steve and Dave I know you're gonna catch some fish! Dave which color predator does the best in your area ?

 Some more nice looking bugs!

Mr. Kensinger do you have any close up pics you can post of your flies? Some of us novice tyers would like to see how they are tied. Nice looking flies.

I would like to add a few of my poppers to the discussion.

Sparkjumper

Nice stuff John. They all look like they will catch fish, great job.

Spent some time on Saturday on a couple local lakes where the water was at 62 degrees til mid afternoon.  Then it went up a couple degrees.  Several places had evidence of bedding activity but no fish on any of them.  It's supposed to rain tomorrow and will be in the higher seventies temperature wise, if true that should start the copper nose into breeding activity.  I'm ready!

Most of the beds I saw were in water from three to five or more, some in weedy areas and some in clear sandy spaces will those be shellcracker, copper nose or plain old  blue gills?

The bass beds were intermixed with the BG beds, just a lot bigger.  We did see some blue gills in the later afternoon as well as some small bass.

steve; you made up some more nice ones buddy

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

awsesome work as always mark.you are a true craftsman

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.

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.

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

 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 :)

 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.

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.

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.

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

That is some nice look'in  water. It appears that you are fishing out of some sort of water craft. May I inquire as to type of craft you use?

I have an old Bass Tracker Ray.  It's almost as old as me.

Hahahaha......If you was as old as me you would be fishing out of a dugout.

Good afternoon everyone.  I'm new here and this will be my first post or comment.  I live in Central Florida.  My only rod at present is an old 8'-0" 6wt. Wonderod that I have had since the late 50's and have recently rebuilt and refinished.  It may be overkill for bream, but I'm working on a new 6'-6" fiberglass Tadpole which should throw a 4wt.  I fish my own flies in the local lakes which there are many of in my town, several in walking distance from my house.  I'm looking forward to being a part of this group.

Rick

Hey Rick you will fit in just fine a man who love's to fish with a Shakespeare glass rod you will fit right in. Tooty is our glass rod expert and I know you'll be hearing from him just type loud cause he's kinda hard or hearing. Good luck and GOOD FISHIN....

hi rick; yea you will fit in perfect buddy!  a lot of us tie our own flies and stuff. and yep;; old tooty will be hollering at you soon!!  he loves those wonderrods!!  he sells them to !!  but be sure to type to him real slow;; he cant read fast--LOL!!  not that I would try to aggravate him!!

RICK WELCOME TO BBG and yup I do like the old Wonderods myself and used one this afternoon up at Doc's pond. Fun to be sure and welcome aboard buddy........

Thanks for the welcome and comments guys.  It's good to hear from you all. And, just for the record, I am not related to old Angel Eyes (Lee Van Cleef).

 Hi Rick welcome to the site and I hope I see you on the water! I thought I was the only Central Florida bream flyfisherman!

Good morning, Lee, and thanks.  I recall fishing a bass tournament up there on the Harris Chain once several decades ago.  Beautiful place.  I'm down here in Winter Haven so the chances of meeting on the water may be slim, but who knows?  It could happen.

Rick I live right on Haines Creek between Lake Eustis and Lake Griffin but I very seldom fish any of the Harris Chain anymore. I enjoy the small lakes and rivers much more and use a kayak to fish them. Ocala National Forest lakes and rivers, St Johns River, Withlacoochee River and up on the Suwannee and Santa Fe Rivers is where I spend most my fishing time. Anyway if you see me out slinging bugs come over and say hey!

I have an 'Action' flyrod Model 1970 .Tried looking it up but found no info .Any one ever hear of these rods .I got it from a friend that bought it at a garage sale .

Fished a unique situation today/night.  I am fortunate enough to have access to a private pond, and tonight there as a pump turned on to help oxygenate the water.  I started by casting crawlers on a jig (under a bobber) into the water where the pump was shooting out.  Kept the bail open, & just let the current from the pump move the bait.  I caught a nice bluegill or a largemouth on nearly every cast.  Was a total blast!  After awhile, I decided to switch to my fly rod, and caught a few nice 'gills.  Then the I caught the 22" largemouth pictured here. Also caught some crappie.  First time I've caught 3 species in the same day on my fly rod, so that was cool.  All of them on a size 12, white, wooly bugger.

I was targeting bluegills - couldn't believe a largemouth that big took something so small.  The hook got buried on the roof of his mouth about 1.5 inches in.  Came out easy, but I have never seen a bass get hooked to deep on the roof of their mouth like that. 

Afterwards, I was really surprised the more I thought about it.  I had on 4 lb tippet tied straight to the fly line as my leader.  Little shocked that didn't break off.