Was on the hooch at dawn this morning and finally landed a fish. I saw one bald eagle, two herons, and a kingfisher.
#FlyFishing #fishing #trout #rainbowtrout #weightforward #selfie #chattahoochee #river
Got out fishing this morning. I was the first person there. The run was full of cormorants and great blue herons. I also saw bald eagles and an osprey. They mostly took off when I showed up. I caught a rainbow trout and a brown trout.
Got a little creek therapy in after work this afternoon. We were looking for Shoal Bass and Chattahoochee Bass. Only caught sunfish. The weather bounced back and forth between rain and sun.
#FlyFishing #fishing #creek #river #hike #weightforward #fullsink #bassfishing #creektherapy #rottenwoodcreek
I'm in Ohio for the holidays, and we did a little bit of fishing today. I caught this trout on a #12 wet fly. These are the last of the no-name barbless hooks that I ordered from big ubiquitous internet vendor to tie my first flies. It's got a pheasant hackle, some green wool, and a pink hot spot right at the bend of the hook. I swung the fly with a regular roll cast on a regular cheapo weight-forward fly line using my 3wt rod.
I did return to the swamp last night. This was certainly not my largest catch, but it was the most interesting catch.
#swamp #marsh #bog #lake #fishing #FlyFishing #weightforward #hiking #nature #sunfish #greensunfish #ambition
Last night I went to check out Sweetwater Creek State Park. It is a little too far away to visit multiple times a week. I caught a couple of brilliant Red Breast Sunfish and a small Shoal Bass.
Tonight, I went to a familiar swamp, and the fishing was hot. I caught 5 different kinds of sunfish and totally lost track of the number of fish. Caught all of them on a size 12 wet fly with my 4 weight rod.
#fish #fishing #flyfishing #bassfishing #bass #sunfish #swamp #creek #weightforward #hiking #nature #outdoors #gooutside
Took one of my old Fenwick rods out to the swamp last night. The water was stained. I had some strikes but never made solid contact with a fish.
#swamp #fenwick #fiberglass #flyfishing #fishing #nature #outdoors #hiking #sunset #clouds #weightforward
First catch of the year.
#largemouthbass #greentrout #ditchpickle #bass #swamp #weightforward #flyfishing #fishing #nature #outdoors #fishofmastodon #fishintoart #buyintofish #buyintoart
Pumpkin spice glass beads for pumpkin spice sunfish. For some reason, I start seeing these warmouth sunfish late summer into early fall.
I caught it on a new-to-me Fenwick FF70 7' 5-6 weight fiberglass fly rod that has the date 7/7/70 written on the rod tube. The glass beads came from a bead shop in Athens Ohio. One of the feathers came from a pheasant, and the other came from my new ratty rooster skin.
#glassbeads #pumpkinspice #warmouth #sunfish #flyfishing #flytying #weightforward #fiberglass #rooster #pheasant
Eastern Long-Whiskered Billy