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John Sikkila
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- What type of animal is a bluegill?
- No ponds....Blessed with many natural gill lakes in my area
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I’ve seen these guys in Louisiana and North Carolina…..one of the reasons I like pink jigs, the…
Check Out The Emerald Green Cheeks on this Flier……8/29/2025
They kind of have a distinctive black line under the eye similar to a chain pickerel but not as…
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awesome pics john ! how do you get such great colors , do you use a diffuser ?
John you're obviously a great fisherman but your photography is the best on this site. Awesome. It inspires me to take a professional photographer along with me!
John,
My 3 wt. fly rod is a Cabela's (3 forks ?). It continues to do a great job for all kinds of fishing. I bought (2) reels for it. One I have sinking line, for drifting the shoreline of lake Erie and the other I have on Floating line for traditional fly fishing. (Panfish)
Depending on where I go, I just change reels and go. Pretty convenient. The fly rod...by far is more fun than any of my spin cast outfits...
Good luck on the water !
Don Patton
John,
We catch some pretty good size smallmouth bass out of lake Erie. We drift the shoreline with our fly rods using flys or tube jigs...
A lot of fun on a 3 wt. fly rod..
Don
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