Fishin'

[steve garro]

It's the Ocmulgee River in central GA. First & second pic is a shoal bass, the third is a spotted bass. Those were the two biggest catches off the day, both caught in about 1-2ft deep fast flowing water. Sometimes you'll find them in pockets of still water next to the current, but most of the time they're IN the current. The riverbed in this area is all boulders tho, so even if the surface looks like fast flowing current the submerged rocks provide plenty of pockets of calm water for them to hang out in and wait for food to go by.

That's straight up fishing 101, great observations !

Oddly enough, in our Verde River we have pure blood Coosa bass that were introduced from the river basin of the same name, and Florida strain LM
The Black Bass family is pretty damn fascinating - here the one with the blue face is a Coosa, the other obviously a LMB, the LMB are in the pools as you say, whereas the Coosa are in the direct current like a trout
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[Bob Ross]

the third is a spotted bass.

Wow, I've never even heard of a "spotted bass" ...but 9-year-old me would swear that 3rd pic is what we used to call "sunfish" when freshwater fishing in lakes and ponds around Pittsburgh PA circa 1968.

[dgaddis]

Wow, I've never even heard of a "spotted bass" ...but 9-year-old me would swear that 3rd pic is what we used to call "sunfish" when freshwater fishing in lakes and ponds around Pittsburgh PA circa 1968.

haha, yeah that one is a sunfish/bream (did I spell that right?), I meant the third pic of a bass. Here's a couple other views of spotted bass. Which I think isn't a great name...the 'spots' all touch each other, for the most part, and form more of a line than a row of spots. But whatever, no one asked me what to call it.

[j44ke]

Bream, dollar, pumpkinseed, red breast, bluegill, etc.

Sunfish are fun on a fly rod.

[htwoopup]

haha, yeah that one is a sunfish/bream (did I spell that right?), I meant the third pic of a bass. Here's a couple other views of spotted bass. Which I think isn't a great name...the 'spots' all touch each other, for the most part, and form more of a line than a row of spots. But whatever, no one asked me what to call it.

The whole spot/ row of spots/ line of spots runs through the whole bass family…here is the first (decade or so ago) pic I found which proves that point…a striped bass….which is a saltwater fish so a whole different kind of fishing…but the gene pool and traits are constant across sweet and salt…

[steve garro]

The whole spot/ row of spots/ line of spots runs through the whole bass family…here is the first (decade or so ago) pic I found which proves that point…a striped bass….which is a saltwater fish so a whole different kind of fishing…but the gene pool and traits are constant across sweet and salt…

Striped Bass aka
"Stripers" (Morone saxatilis) are in a family that's comprised of them, white bass, yellow bass, and I think one other..........white perch, maybe = is a whooooooole different family from freshwater Black Bass which *does* have a member called specifically "Spotted Bass" = Micropterus punctulatus = includes LMB, SMB, spotted, coosa, Quatro Cienegas, Alahambra.........depends or whether you are a "lumper" or a "splitter" species wise = I grew up catching Stripers in fresh water, Lake Powell in AZ/UT

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[Paul Jacobs]

I have just returned from the county of Devon (South West England) where part of the time I was fishing with a pre-fire (pre 1964) Leonard 38 ACM, 7ft, bamboo rod, a Leonard Fairy Reel and half a double taper #3 silk line, casting dry flies size 16 to 22. The little rivers are headwaters of the river Lyd which flows into the river Tamar which enters the sea further south at Plymouth.

In 1964 the Leonard factory, in Central Valley, New York burnt down. Although the company was revived between 1965 and the early 1980s, the pre-fire rods have a different name stamp which helps to identify them.

The reel seat on this rod is too small to take a standard fly reel and it was made to fit the tiny (2 inch) Fairy reel which is shown with the rod.

Although I now make my own bamboo rods (about 10 rods per year), I think it is fun, occasionally, to use classic rods and reels which still do the job.

[dgaddis]

Had one of the most fun days with a fishing rod I've ever had yesterday. Fished a good buddy's farm pond for about 2.5hrs and between the three of us we landed about 60 bass. We've all been friends for 30 years, have been fishing together since we had drivers licenses, and we've never had a day like this before. I'm in the white Underarmor cap.

[steve garro]

I'm getting sorted for 24 days fishing in Baja in both the Sea of Cortez and the Pacific - I am soooooooo stoked - time for some inventory


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[bigbill]

[QUOTE=steve garro;1122534]I'm getting sorted for 24 days fishing in Baja in both the Sea of Cortez and the Pacific - I am soooooooo stoked - time for some inventory


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Do you file the barbs? This past summer, I broke the shank at the bend on several flies trying to flatten the barb. Usually on #18 and 20. It seemed like a bad batch of hooks were used in China that day. When we relocate to Wyoming, I think I'll learn to tie my own and buy quality hooks.

[steve garro]

[QUOTE=bigbill;1122535]

I'm getting sorted for 24 days fishing in Baja in both the Sea of Cortez and the Pacific - I am soooooooo stoked - time for some inventory


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Do you file the barbs? This past summer, I broke the shank at the bend on several flies trying to flatten the barb. Usually on #18 and 20. It seemed like a bad batch of hooks were used in China that day. When we relocate to Wyoming, I think I'll learn to tie my own and buy quality hooks.

Hahahahaaaaaaaa !!

Dude.........these saltwater singles have a gap of damn near an inch !

I can't even SEE a #20 fly

Plus, they often get crimped for you = also, look at the weight on these lures = 120-150 grams !
I fish down to 400'

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[steve garro]

Back from Baja, it went to total "winter fishing" the day we showed, not a huge variety thusly but nice ones and plenty of them, catch big fish until you were sore and quit.
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