Well, looks like I'll try to get a few more until Saturday as Rick will be away according to his quote above from the other board :).Quote:
"'Much of muskie fishing relies on an inkling of logic and applied science and
the suspension of disbelief.' This rings true for any species we're after."
Doug Stange in Oct/Nov "In-Fisherman"
Rick
I am gone until Saturday for CE.
"TO SINK OR NOT TO SINK
That is the question. The nymph and streamer fisher will consistently take more and larger bream than the dry-fly purist and he will do it all season, even during the spawn and in the dead of winter. Like trout, the bulk of the bream's diet comes off the bottom. The rest is made up of small fish, tadpoles, and other swimming organisms at intermediate depths, with perhaps ten percent of his total protein intake consumed off the surface of the pond. In larger lakes mature bream stay deep nearly all the time and the dry-fly enthusiast will take few quality fish ---- big bluegill even spawn deep in big southern impoundments.
The rest of the story, as a popular radio commentator might put it, is the fact that, although top water fishing is one-tenth as effective, it is also ten times more fun."
The Sunfishes, pg. 77
By Jack Ellis
