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First a little history and then I'll tell you what worked so well for us. I've been looking for a trophy redear fishery to take my family to for quite some time and Barkley Lake's fairly close to where we live at 190 miles. I booked the trip way back in January and have been chomping at the bit to get down there. As the day approached for us to leave, I was wondering if the high water they were having would ruin our trip, not to mention weather being on the cool side. I knew monster redear…

I just found a free app called My Fishing Advisor. It looks are all factors, time, tids, moon, temps, humidity, etc... and by species of fish and will tell you the best time of day for fishing success in the body of water you are in. I am digging this app so give it a try after all it is free.

Dennis

Fished a pond today and caught 20 gills in the 7'' to 8" range. Most gills were shallow but not on beds. Around noon temp was 82 degrees and sunny and fish shut down. They would just look at fly like they were dazed? We caught these fish on fly rod using mostly sz 10 and 12 bead head nymphs. Should i have been fishing deeper water for bigger gills? This pond was only 10 or 12 deep at the most.

Thanks

Frank

I went to my big bass pond, but I wasn't having any luck on the ole stand by. I could see big bass activity but couldn't seem to catch them. Also, there were bluegill popping the top, but I forgot the fly rod, so I put the chartreuse and peacock herl jig on the jig pole and went at it.  I caught two young shell crackers right off the bat. After that I only caught bass, which shredded the jig. I was still catching fish with part of the tail and no point on the hook. I left when it got too…

With my son's middle school baseball season ending, I actually had some time today to test out a fly that I tied up during the winter months.  Got in from work and loaded up the kayak, grabbed my flyrod and headed to my favorite lake that has a good gill population.  Saw a few surface smacks as I launched so I had a good feeling my fly was going to be met with approval.  Paddled into an area that I knew had beds in the past and rolled out a cast and watched my fly land with a soft splash. …

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next place your ring over the glue and place the string end in the glue

make your wraps to the end of the ring legs…

Today my little brother and I fished our neighbors pond and got into a few bluegill, crappies, and largemouth, but fishing was slow so we walked down to the North Fork of the Rivanna to see how the "migration" of the warmwater fish into the river was going, fallfish are the only species that winter over in it... My little brother was fishing a 3" white triple ripple grub and caught a baby smallmouth and lost a 15"er within 5 minutes of our arrival. I only caught a couple chubs and fallfish…

The best bluegill bait I have used is wild hog meat. One piece will catch 10  to 12 bluegill. Works for me better than worms or crickets or anything esle

Well, Greetings one and all from Lake havasu City, AZ, home of the London Bridge but who cares about that, the fish are biting and by fish I mean Bluegill.

I went out with my brother yesterday looking for Gills and Bass and found both. For the last three weeks, the Smallmouth Bass have been on beds and are now moving off somewhat. I have been watching my favorite Bluegill hole and I can tell you this much, it is not on the lake but is on the Colorado River just above the lake and is…

It's only mid April, but it's been good so far. My girlfriend got me a fishing kayak for my birthday!!!!! And i also received some flies from Tooty and another fella I bought a paddle from. My Mom also got me some as well, from a husband and wife company called J&M Flies, and yesterday I received an envelope with some flies from Carl Hendrix which i can't wait to try out. I like to call all of these flies my "birthday flies" . The day after my birthday, I went back home to Houston with…

Just wanted to ad a quick blog here for how wonderful bluegill fishing continues to be for beginners and pros alike. This past Saturday, April 13, my son Matt and I instructed a basic fishing class for 10 students at a local retreat facility that has a 4 acre lake on the premises. We had a breezy 60 degree day with bright sunshine and set up the students with 10 ft telescoping poles and bobbers/jig/bait combos for some easy bluegill action. Most of the gang had never caught a fish before,…

I did a casting test on a 6'6" super-UL spinning rod I made specifically for casting very lightweight lures, the rod that I have built for UL enthusiasts who want more casting distance with such lures. I used 2-lb. test on a Shimano 2500, and did ten casts each with a 1/64 oz. jig, a 1/32 oz. jig, and a 1/16 oz. jig, no other weight besides the jig; I used a 1" curly-tail plastic body on the 1/64 oz. jig head, and a 1.5" Crappie Slider plastic body on the 1/32 and 1/16 oz. heads. I…

Despite a prolonged and agonizing arrival of spring, I finally managed to make a decent catch today, but not my beloved bluegills. After several pitty-patty outings of dink gills and stocker-sized trout, I decided to try one of my local bass ponds and hit on a hunch. I had heard from Andrew Ragas of the Fishing Headquarters that a favored early spring bass tactic in the mid-west was to toss rattle baits and keep them at a brisk pace to entice largemouths coming out of hibernation mode.…

i have used the gulp alive baits in the jars for a couple of years and have had great succses with them. i see that there is a new bait on the market that is sorta similar,impulse [i think its from northland]. has anyone out there used it yet and did you have any luck with it 

If you don't know what a Meanmouth bass is, you need to read the article "Return of the Meanmouth" by Bruce Condello in April's "North American Fisherman".

Bruce, who is the guy holding the monster?  Good article!

Jim

I made it through double knee replacement on the 5th of march and recovery is going well. the weather here in northeast ohio is right on the border of ridiculous . woke up to 4to 5 in of snow this morning . a friend of mine went out in his boat saturday and said he had to break through about 3/8 in of ice for a long distance just to get to the spot he wanted to fish .it is probably good that the weather is bad as i would be chomping at the bit to go .this weekend over easter it looks like…

Hey fellow fisherman.. I have been teaching myself how to use photoshop via youtube and have been taking a picture with my cellphone of every fish I have caught since geting back into fishing.. The Idea I have is I am doing a few fun artistic things to the pictures of the fish and making a vitrual "stringer" of the results and I will keep adding them to the stringer ass I catch more and more.. giving me a type of record of the fish I have caught. Is this a good idea to you guys?

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This weekend started with a pretty good Crappie trip on the Little River in northeast North Carolina on Saturday.....The fish were shallow and water temperatures were 51 degrees.....Knowing the eastern division of the North Carolina "Fishers Of  Men" National Bass Tournament trail were fishing the Pasquotank River Saturday, I decided to let them have that river for the day.....But one of the teams had made the 20 mile run to fish Little River and I happened to run in to them....They…

Just want to post a thank you to Carl and David for sending me some of the flies they have made. The PINK does the job! Jeffrey Abney you are the man! Attached is a picture of 2 pink flies that I tried out today, one on the left from Carl and on the right from David. Both are slow sinking flies and that is what the bluegill, crappie and bass wanted today.

Would not touch a top water popper. Nothing big today due to all the rain we've had here in the Lowcountry of South…

Haven't been on in awhile! Well it's still cold and icy up here in Ontario, but the above zero temps are here! Itching to start for ice-out Crappie!

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