Awesome posts!
I have thoroughly enjoyed reading these the last few days.
Eric, 48 steps is crazy! Hope you had a coffee in hand for that short jaunt.
Dan, the love of Bluegill fishing is clearly not lost!
Rob, Golf course report, dodging starters, and the whole bit, classic. Nice work with the Splat Rat fly on those Bass.
Greg, pure perseverance man. Didn't like the 4mr prospects so you tote the rod to work. Very Strong sir. A 10 inch bluegill is a rare treat to be reveled in.
Kurt, we are practically neighbors. I love that you knew the conditions and went to 6x, and use a caddis pattern which holds up much better than an Adams. I also like small buggers which they get all territorial over in those little reds. I have hit 4mr for those trout they stock, the sunnies are always around and fight just as hard, haha.
-Trent
On Wednesday, June 20, 2012 6:12:59 PM UTC-4, Kurtyboy wrote:
--I just took up flyfishing last June, learning to cast from Youtube videos and lots of time on the grass with a piece of yarn. I've lived in the Brittany Condominiums on Four Mile Run for five years, and always just stared at the fish in the water, until last Summer. But I've made the short walk with my three wieght a regular habit, and last night counted out the 161 paces from the door to my first cast (not including the hallway to the elevator...)Last night was warm, and with no rain for a couple of days, the water of the Run was gin-clear. In the pool I fished were a couple-dozen round clearings in the brown of the streambed--the sunfish are on the spawn. Some but not all of these clear spots held bulldog males ready to chase off predators. Two young muskrats swam and gathered vegetation on the opposite bank, and a two-foot brown water snake swam through the middle of it all. The sunnies let him travel unaccosted. I tied an elk-hair caddis to the 6x leader and dropped my offering on the first likely looking spot. It took only a moment for several minute immature sunfish to notice an investigate--I've noticed that when the little guys are following, their bigger cousins ignore the fly. So I cast a little further up stream.I got my first fish of the night, a very small one, and worked up the pool. The action is always steady here, and and I brought several fish to hand. In full spawning colors these are just incredibly beautiful animals. The largest fish of the night (and probably the largest sunfish in the pool) sucked up the fly and put on a helluva show trying to escape. He's in the photo below, next to a photo of the smallest fish of the evening, a two-incher that had a healthy appetite.There are also a ton fo suckers in the pool--up to twelve or more inches long--but I've never gotten one to do anything but spook. The last few times I fished there I have also noticed a seven-inch or so goldfish swimming with the suckers.I have probably fished the Run forty times over the past year, and I have yet to see anyone else try. Since Arlington stopped stocking trout a couple of years ago, I guess nobody much notices this resource. But I do, and in fly fishing I have found a deepy rewarding way of connecting to my world.
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