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| Jmd123 | October 30th, 2013, 9:39 pm | |
 Posts: 2611 | As I'm sure many of the rest of you are experiencing, our weather lately has been cold, rainy, or windy, or all three at once. Not good fishing weather, unless I suppose you're a steelheader...anyway, today things were much nicer than they've been in a while, so I took the kayak out to Reid Lake, my favorite little perch-n-rainbow spot in the Huron National Forest. This lake has proven to be a toughie, with fish seemingly spread out and requiring working over a lot of water, still typically with intermittent success or sometimes none at all. Well, this lovely afternoon success was with me, and I managed to connect with nine fish in all, 6 perch that I boated, a seventh that was another jumbo like the one I posted on here 2 1/2 weeks ago but threw the hook (DANG!!), and two little 9" rainbows that went back in to grow some more. First time out in 2 1/2 weeks, man it felt good! And I'll be picking up the nicely filleted perchies tomorrow after I teach class. The fly that worked for all of the above? A #6 silver/grey KBF with nickeled dumbbell eyes. Turned out to still be a bit heavy even on the five weight, got stung in the back a couple of times with it before I got the right casting rhythm down... Jonathon | |
| No matter how big the one you just caught is, there's always a bigger one out there somewhere... | ||
| Taxon | October 31st, 2013, 8:58 am | |
 Site Editor Royse City, TXPosts: 1350 | Nice Jonathan. Thanks for sharing. | |
| Best regards, Roger Rohrbeck www.FlyfishingEntomology.com | ||
| Kschaefer3 | October 31st, 2013, 10:22 am | |
 Posts: 376 | You're making me hungry, Jonathon! | |
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