michiganborn

Absolutely beautiful. Rather catch a wild something-trout from there than a stocked monster in a less picturesque river. Fishing is only partly about fish :pp

Absolutely beautiful. Rather catch a wild something-trout from there than a stocked monster in a less picturesque river. Fishing is only partly about fish :pp

Scary lookin! Lolol. If it sinks it'd be a heck of a way to catch bedded bass, which I've never really seen a fly for before.

Ohhhhh ok. I was fishing about 2 miles West of burt lake, a bit farther than I thought from your areas

East? I can't think of and named rivers east of it. Well, unless you mean the east branch of the Maple.

That doesn't look like a $350 rod to me lol Try to get to Cabela's and hold one, they'll honor any online sale.

X2 Whipped loop, it's my preferred method too. I've used reel backing on thicker lines.

Spent a day on the Maple River in Northern Michigan, rated as a blue-ribbon stream. I fished a section of river located approx. 1 mile from the river's dam, the tailwaters of which being the blue-ribbon rated section. Despite not having the prestigious rating of it's downstream section, the stretch I fished was a brook trout heaven. I caught 18-20 fish, I lost count after around 16. All of these brookies were caught on a single parachute adams fly! The thing got so beat up that I ended up applying floatant after every hit, which were almost on every cast. I fished ripples around evening. I only managed, or tried, to take a picture of one fish...

As a side note, one of those foam pool noodles will give you a thousand lightweight indicators!

Gar are considered ugly? Lol, I always thought they looked cool

Common carp aren't a real nuisance in any body of water I've ever seen, and it's ignorance that leads people to think they are.

Nice lookin nymph! For some reason I was expecting a big mess of metal lol...... I'm slipping.

Both have their place, general use I like my clamp.

Oiler puffs are different, and in my opinion a lot easier to use. If you want it as a wing just clip off the nipple at the bottom of it I like them and if there's even just 50 in a pack for 3$, heck that's 50 flies. Not too bad if ya ask me

What's your favorite smallmouth pattern? Pictures welcome and encouraged!

Use a nymph if you want to catch every bluegill in sight, or use a woolly bugger to weed out the sizes.

No picture!

http://www.warmwaterflytyer.com/corner.asp?page=12 This is probably the most productive fly I've ever used. I have caught anything from good sized largemouth bass out of a lake, to rainbow trout from streams with it. I like a furnace hackle.

Showoff! :PP

Besides a popper BTW

Nothing in particular. It was just a thought of something big and gaudy on top of the water getting hit by a big fish, lol

Lol yeah. Well, being a fur trapper myself, I can say I'd be reeeeal happy selling a nutria for 30 dollars lol. But we don't have them in Michigan though.

Dried Nutria pelts sell for 3-5 dollars at fur auctions so I can't imagine you'd have to pay more than $10 for a full size tanned one

Is this an actual type of fly? The closes pattern I could really find to this is the hot pink Pollywog mouse fly.

No, I don't have any pictures, because I don't have a camera... I use it for ribbing and for tags, it works great. Lots of it, too. I've only used silver and gold, because that's all I've found, but there's a lot of good looking colors