Ever since my brother sent me a photo of a blue gill I've wanted to catch one. To his pond (above) armed with a light fly rod...
And once I found out you had to get the fly to land with a 'plop' it was easy - helped by the fact there were thousands of them...
Beautiful little fish - I caught loads! I was really happy with my catch - until Sammi had one cast - and caught one three times the size!
There are only 11 bass in the pond - released in as fry in just May - yup, caught the first one - always better to be lucky than good!
And I couldn't resist chasing the bugs and butterflies about for half an hour - while mainly trying not to step on snakes!!
The wildlife in the USA is incredible and largely ignored by the locals. Also, fishing a lob worm (night crawler as the Yanks named them in usual dramatic and overstated fashion), under a float is a very pleasant pastime.
ReplyDeleteLoads of wildlife - a lot of which wants to bite you! Didn’t have any bait but fly fishing is a lovely way to catch them!!
DeleteGood luck with the fishing and say hello to Paulos, Brooke and Sammy for me
ReplyDeleteCheers Steve, already had some great fishing - and more to come I hope! Said hello to the gang and they said to say ‘hi’ - I think it’s American for ‘hello’ :-)
DeleteOne of 11? I make it, that you have 10 to go then!! You will do that, no problem.
ReplyDeleteNah, I’ll leave some for next time when they’re doubles - don’t think it’ll take very long to grow that big!
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