Troutnut Forum > Fly Fishing Discussion > JONATHON IS BACK!
| Jmd123 | June 30th, 2009, 7:40 pm | |
| Posts: 314 | Hey folks, don't know if any of the guys I used to chat with are still on here, but I FINALLY got around to buying myself a new computer and getting back online after a long hiatus. Now living in Troy, MI with my folks (partially for economic reasons, partly because they're both 76 and, how shall I say, need some heavy lifting now and then), I am saving $$$ not paying Ann Arbor rent but giving up some privacy so, obviously, I have been fishing A LOT this year. Most of which has taken place in a local lake in which the crappie started hitting chartruese woolly buggers a week after the last ice finally went out! Plus lots of bluegill (now finishing up spawning, biting best on a size 12 black, yellow, and red "firefly" - not the pattern in the catalogs, this is from an old book on panfish and bass flies), plenty of bass (mostly maxing out at 12-13" but one 5-pounder threw the hook on me a couple of months ago), and even the occsasional yellow perch. The aformentioned chartreuse woolly bugger (size 10 Mustad #9672, Krystal Flash tail topping, weighted underbody, and grizzly hackle tied at the head & wrapped back before being counter-wrapped by silver wire tied at the hook bend - that's how I always tie 'em) has been the best (my very best warmwater fly EVER), followed by my Killer Bass Flies (#10) in silver/gray or chartreuse (also, chartruese & silver - new variant). I've also been to the Huron River in Ann Arbor (smallies, rock bass, & bluegills) and Cooley Lake fishing off my friends' dock (16" largemouth, rock bass up to 11", and sunfish up to 9"). Next week I plan on going "hexing" up in the Maple River, my old stomping grounds from my UMBS days. Also, picked up an 8-weight outfit from Cabelas & fresh ingredients for BIG pike flies, which I need to also test up in the north country (or on Lake St. Clair for muskies?). I will soon be purchasing a digital camera for fish porn (waterproof, obviously) and some illustrated step-by-step instructions for some of my own original fly patterns, KBFs included. Stay tuned... Jonathon P.S. Any Hex reports from you Michigan guys?? | |
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| Martinlf | July 1st, 2009, 11:46 am | |
| Palmyra PA Posts: 1478 | Welcome back, most of us are still around. Great fishing report; glad to see you are having a good season. | |
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