Thread: Good Day With the Fly Rod

Those kind of look like Redbreast Sunfish (Longear). You catch those on a dry fly? Looks like a dry fly on the rod hook keeper. Way to go. You are going to love those 100 fish days on the fly rod when they come.

I actually didn't catch any on the fly tied on in the pic. The flies I I had the most success on were dry flies, although, they only stayed on top for a few casts. I also caught a few on a wooly bugger, but don't have much success with wet flies.

You will catch more fish on subsurface flies even though you will have more fun catching fish on surface flies. :D Spend some time manipulating subsurface flies with your fly line while stripping in line to find out what the fish like. There may be occasions when the fish will key in on only one type of subsurface fly so I can go through many changes sometimes before I find out what fly they like and what kind of action on the fly they like before I get consistent bites.

Originally Posted by fly_freebird90

I actually didn't catch any on the fly tied on in the pic. The flies I I had the most success on were dry flies, although, they only stayed on top for a few casts. I also caught a few on a wooly bugger, but don't have much success with wet flies.

Try spider pattern. Buy your bodies in a fly shop. The spider doesn't sink. You will have a blast. Twitch fly on surffice of water. Bass will also take this fly. I will garantee success, You could even tie on rubber legs if you choose to do so. I tie a hackle on making my legs. Cut hackle off back if you want to. You can leave them on