Adventures in "trad" fishing.

[Loreva13]

Nice! I was going out on Tuesday but opted to do more practicing with my casting before putting a fly on there. I will definitely be out there this afternoon hoping to get my first!

[Bisch]

Well the fish refused to cooperate. If it wasn't for the incredible company, i would say it was a total bust. Just before packing it in... I did hook up with what could be a new species on the fly.... whatcha think? I am thinking rock bass.

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Not sure, because I am looking at the pic in my phone, but that looks like a black crappie to me?

Bisch

[npe001]

[QUOTE=SwampRabbit;9042494]Well the fish refused to cooperate. If it wasn't for the incredible company, i would say it was a total bust. Just before packing it in... I did hook up with what could be a new species on the fly.... whatcha think? I am thinking rock bass.

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Warmouth for sure

[npe001]

Won't let me upload my pictures :/

[SwampRabbit]

Hmmm, looks like the rock bass in this blog

http://extremephillyfishing.blogspot.com/2013/06/be-sunfish-expert-simple-guide-for.html

(scroll down to the rock bass.)

It was the red eyes and the larger mouth that was what triggered my thought it was a rock bass.

[SwampRabbit]

Warmouth for sure

Yeah, I think you are correct. I just did a search and the two are often mistaken for each other. It's harder to see the facial stripes (I sort of see them) but a site said that a warmouth has 3 spikes on the **** fin, whereas rock bass have 5-6. You can definately see from my pic and other pics of rock bass, that mine had only 3 spikes and is most likely a warmouth.

Thanks for helping ID it for me... Still a new species!!!

[Loreva13]

What an awesome time I had yesterday afternoon and evening. About 30 minutes in and I land my first fly fishing catch! I used the blue gill spider SwampRabbit tied me up and it nabbed me two fish. The first was a blue gill and the second I believe was a green sunfish. Nothing but but good times! Thanks SwampRabbit for the flies!

[Chunky]

Congrats the fishes, well done.

[SwampRabbit]

Congrats!

Glad there was a fly in there that worked

Look forward to more posts/stories in the future.

[MikeW]

Man spent 20 min, posting and they didn't upload...guest too many pics for the post....let me break it up.

Some of my earlier work.

[MikeW]

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[MikeW]

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[MikeW]

Proud of this one..National contest. 2,500 entries and this took first place.