40cm bass

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Comment by Lord of the Fly , Rods on January 19, 2014 at 10:48am

Mathew, thats why I sending you the fly line dressing, the slicker your line the easier it is for the line to go through the eyelets,  the extra weight from the quill and small split shot helps cast your line, yes it's a one shot cast but load your  rod and shoot it to your target, you have to be soft with your cast  to keep from flinging the cricket off, but after you learn this technique  when you go back to fishing with a fly you will be a black belt in the world of fly fishing, it's a wax on wax off kind of thing . LOFR

Comment by David, aka, "McScruff" on January 19, 2014 at 10:11am

You have to treat the float/bait combination as a pole, not a fly rod. "Casting," as you are now accustomed, is out of the question. Instead, let out as much line as the rod is long, maybe a bit more, and then swing and "flip" the rig out into the water. There is not as much range as with fly casting. But it lets you get accurate, "up close and personal" with the fish - you can get a bait into pockets you might not reach with the fly rod.

Something you can do is strip off a few meters of fly line and "shoot" your float and bait rig a little further. The same idea as shooting a fly, but you wont get it to go as far. The float is placed above the bait, on the leader. It can be anything from 25cm to maybe 100cm above. More than that and it becomes difficult to manage to long leader and float combination.

Comment by Mathew Blakeway on January 19, 2014 at 9:36am

Where would you put the float on your leader? I battled a bit to cast the cricket, as it is won't the extra weight make it even harder to cast?

Comment by Lord of the Fly , Rods on January 19, 2014 at 9:28am

 Mathew,  now  that you have some experience with crickets  , you need to learn how to dangle one below a porcupine quill !   LOFR

Comment by mike martinez on January 19, 2014 at 7:58am

Cool......

Comment by Mathew Blakeway on January 19, 2014 at 7:57am

My little brother, Daniel, took the photo. It was a lot of fun on the fly rod! 

Comment by David, aka, "McScruff" on January 19, 2014 at 7:49am

Every fish likes crickets!

I call those "Hand bass," or "rockets,"... because thats how they go after everything!

Who took the picture?

Comment by Keith Ritter on January 19, 2014 at 7:40am

Good fight on fly rod I'll bet . The cricket is Universal for any predatory fish.

Comment by carl hendrix on January 19, 2014 at 6:25am

jeffs favorite bait to Mathew!!  good going buddy

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