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gillchaser
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Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2018 7:36 pm • # 1 |
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First , I bought this rod to chase Micro fish . Smaller than most folks fish for . Most who fish for micros use bait . I prefer flies . I started off using a wf3 line as I was making short casts . It did ok , but when I switched over to a 4wf I was able to flip my fly just about where I wanted . I’ve ordered a couple double tapers to try . I caught a small bluegill on my first cast . Ended up catching 13 , a bakers dozen in about an hour . Not exactly a bonefish . But Look at the bars on these !
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strummer
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Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2018 6:21 am • # 2 |
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Joined: 06/13/16 Posts: 936 Location: Southwest Florida
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Wow! Those are some beautiful little fish!
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JimRed
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Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2018 6:53 pm • # 3 |
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Joined: 08/31/15 Posts: 1042 Location: Coppell, TX
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Nice outfit and catch. Blue gill are beautiful fish. What kind of flies and leader set up do you use?
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gillchaser
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Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2018 8:00 pm • # 4 |
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JimRed wrote: Nice outfit and catch. Blue gill are beautiful fish. What kind of flies and leader set up do you use? Thanks , the flies are a size 18 wetfly hook wrapped past the bend with black micro chenille , with rubber micro centipede black/white legs tied in just behind the eye . The legs swim when falling or twitched . My leaders are just a 4-5’ piece of 12# Big Game mono with about 3’ of 5X tippet material or sometimes a piece of 4# mono . . Gillchaser
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Hobie1dog
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Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2018 10:40 pm • # 5 |
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Joined: 06/28/18 Posts: 121 Location: Cornelius, NC
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Awesome, thanks for sharing this with us.
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gillchaser
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Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2018 2:56 am • # 6 |
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Here’s a pic showing one of my spiders tied on a Mustad 3366 size12 which is my original size for when I’m not targeting the little guys . I use small chenille but same centipede legs . I also tie these in colors . White bodied one did pretty good the other day on a stained creek . Gillchaser
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roblepl
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Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2018 8:12 am • # 7 |
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Nice!
I love my little 1wt.
Sent from my LG-H700 using Tapatalk
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Crunchy
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Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2018 8:22 pm • # 8 |
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Joined: 08/15/15 Posts: 15 Location: Bonner Co. North Idaho
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Beautiful colors on those fish. Where I wet a line is in a back slough of a larger lake and the BG were big and plentiful, some easily in the 8"+ range. However, there were two families with many small fisher kids. As long as dad had a valid fishing license the small ones could fish. Each one had a short pole with a Zebco real and a cup of worms, that mom kept baited all the time. The only problem is that all the fish the size that you have shown us were taken home for dinner.
They used to yell at me for C&R. The last time I was there to show my G Grand- kid what fishing was all about there were no fish to be seen or caught. It appears all the good breading stock had been removed from this area.
Does anyone know what would be the recovery period for BG in any given area?
Crunchy
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joe the plumber
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Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2018 8:55 pm • # 9 |
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nice pics.....my favorite fish to catch especially on the fly rod.
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