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PostPosted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 9:04 pm • # 1 
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To date, what is your favorite catch on the ultralight fly rod?

I had owned my rod for about 2 weeks and we were getting towards the end of the crappy spawn here in Nebraska. This particular public lake had given up a 16" white crappy to my buddy the previous day on his 7'6" TFO 3-wt. I had to get in on the action! There are some bigger fish in this lake and some are mean and feisty!!! I was stripping a crappy candy in slowly along a weed bed and BAM, line started stripping off the reel. Four runs later and a pounding chest, this Bertha came to hand!!! My first wiper and 22 inches too bootImage

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Let's see your BEST catch (thus far)!


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PostPosted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 9:13 pm • # 2 
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I don't have pictures of my favorite fish landed on my 2wt due to it raining on me last week while trouting a local lake. I was wading in a creek arm of another cove arm, and was making horizontal casts out past about 15' and retrieving past a downed bush, and I would make 6" strips pretty quick. The fly got hammered by a 15" rainbow that was easily 4" from back to belly and had a mouth like a 20" fish. This thing fought well in the skinny water, clearing the water several times, but coming to hand in a minute or so. Its flanks were BRIGHT pink!


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PostPosted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 9:18 pm • # 3 
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If I remember right, I caught this bass 2 years ago on my Orvis Superfine 3wt.
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I got this Carp on my Lamiglas 3wt.
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Neither of these fish are my favorite species though.

Jeremy


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PostPosted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 9:29 pm • # 4 
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I love big gills though.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 9:37 pm • # 5 
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That fish is cute...not a behemoth like the other ones from there. That fish is still about as big as our biggest here, or that I have seen.


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PostPosted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 10:32 pm • # 6 
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My FAVORITE is the gill pictured when you see the home page here....he was both longer (11 1/4" to 11") & thicker than the one in the following pic, but shown is a "head on" pic of a healthy 11 incher.

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Obviously, my favorite species is the bluegill..."gillus humongus fightemus". Image
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 10:35 pm • # 7 
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Mike, that is a monster! I would love to hook into one of them here, so I don't have to drive half way to the east coast...


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PostPosted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 4:41 am • # 8 
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Now that that's a nice coppernose BG. What fly is that in his mouth?
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 5:54 am • # 9 
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keebranch wrote:
Now that that's a nice coppernose BG. What fly is that in his mouth?
Les

Les...I don't believe it's a coppernose, & that's a well beaten up, simple white foam popper dropped right beside a bush that extends into the water. It hit immediately after "landing".
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 5:56 am • # 10 
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Nope we don't have any coppernose's up here. Those are southern fish I believe.

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 9:03 am • # 11 
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No pix, but one of the most memorable was a 12" trout taken below the Spillway at Broken Bow Dam. I was fishing my .4 ounce Forbes micro on a 5' 2" Dan Craft Sig IV blank. I had extended the handle with an aluminum tube. Spotted the ring of a feeding trout and cast the varnished backing fly line with a 14 Elk Hair caddis. Classic take. Got him in and discovered that I had bent the aluminum extension. I rebuilt the rod directly on the blank so it is now 4'8". It now sports a Forbes Trico at 1.2 ounces. The micro now rides a 30" rod. Don


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PostPosted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 9:07 am • # 12 
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Very nice Don! Do you like the Forbes Micro Rod? Isn't that a one weight?


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PostPosted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 10:38 am • # 13 
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It isn't a Forbes rod. I know a fellow who built them for awhile and he used fiberglass ice fishing blanks. The fiberglass blank casts a 4 weight line depite PR to the contrary. The Dan Craft actually casts varnished backing. You can't use any flyline because they are not supply enough to spool on the reel. Don


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PostPosted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 11:53 am • # 14 
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NICE! Thanks for the heads up on that Don. If I may ask, what is varnished backing?


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PostPosted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 1:49 pm • # 15 
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Very high tech. Stretch backing between 2 poles and rub in some tung oil or Tru-oil into the entire length. I run the line through a bath of oil in a Dixie cup. A couple of coats will do it. Varnishing is used on silk lines. Sage makes 000 lines, but with the plastic overcoating, you can't get a decent amount of line on a micro-reel. Don


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PostPosted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 3:15 pm • # 16 
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HAHA! I hadn't thought of that! Thanks for a trick I may eventually have to try!


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PostPosted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 3:27 pm • # 17 
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I caught this Crappie (Sac-a-lait down here) on my 2 weight. The day after I caught him a buddy called and said he would have been #2 in the state on the fly... he was #1 in the cast iron skillet!

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 3:30 pm • # 18 
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Uncle Larry, that's a nice crappie. They get pretty big in some lakes here in Ohio.

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 3:35 pm • # 19 
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This so far is my favorite fish. One of the famous City Park Rio's.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 3:43 pm • # 20 
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Hey Jimmy! How are ya? Don't you spend all of your time over here! You have to split your time with Warm Fly!


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