2015 Warm Water

[Dee-Vo]

A fish's size being grossly exaggerated? Impossible.

[raz]

the PG article is before my time, but i do know musky eat adult ducks/swans, etc.  seen dead ones myself near elizabeth, pa
local forum here had a pic about 10 years ago of a HUGE musky w a goose in its throat.  67 dick inches?  thats a monster...  possibly exaggerated, but could be true.  not many people targeted them back in the 80's and there's a TON of carp, bass, etc to get a musky that big.

TF- Pat Cohen makes a spun hair baby duck.  http://rusuperfly.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2&products_id=20

as far as if musky eat smallies, fuck yes they do.  hell, i catch walleyes w smallies half down their throat. 
do they eat enough of them to disrupt a population?  probably not to an extreme extent.  and adult bass would certainly eat yearling moosky.

errybody eating errybody. 

[Big J]

Is fall here yet?  All this musky talk is getting me excited.  Which reminds me, I have a little bit of work to do on my boat trailer.   

[Big J]

Also, had a musky take a fly on the surface, it was by far the best fly fishing take I have experienced.  I will be messing around more with topwater musky flies in the future.

[raz]

in 48 hours i hope to have stuck one.. top water, streamer.  dont care.

[Big J]

in 48 hours i hope to have stuck one.. top water, streamer.  dont care.

Good luck to you from a jealous fellow brffer.

[raz]

tiger musky...  another think i disagree w PA over...  why stock sterile fish?  why not spend that money on feeding muskies to be yearlings..?  fucking PA stocking programs are fucked. 

[OldDominionAngler]

Weekday reprieve, went to sling some poppers.

Poppers weren't popping enough I guess.  Switched to a clouser, started to pick up a few fish tumbling it through the riffles.


By catch.


Four deer chewing river grass and a heron on the rock.  Bald eagles nest very nearby too and they just relocated a black bear about a mile from here last week.  There's also a protected Peregrine falcon nest downstream. 


My buddy fished up stream.


This was his first time out here and he stuck a great fish. 


One more look. 


Fished until the curtains dropped with no more hookups.  S'okay though because we are fishing again on Friday in a more notable smalljaw locale.  Wife and baby are up north so I may even find a minute to tie up a couple fresh bugs for this one. 

[bullship]

tequilly

[Dougfish]

Good on ya, ODA. 

[bmadd]

That's the good stuff

[OldDominionAngler]

tequilly

You know what's funny...I thought about it afterwards and I think I fished four flies from a 2011 smallie swap.  Get Bent's Tequelly, BRA's La Flama Blanca, an EP fiber crayfish I tied, and your double cone leech thingy..although it was a replica.

Good times man, good times.

[JD]

I only had a little time to get some fishing in before the storm came. I checked out 2 new ponds. One sucked. One was good. I will be back to catch more gills asap.

[themidge]

I only had a little time to get some fishing in before the storm came. I checked out 2 new ponds. One sucked. One was good. I will be back to catch more gills asap.

Change up the color of your wooly bugger next time, maybe you'll have better luck.

[JD]

You're right. I have a tendency to stick with a fly too long.