December Panfish

[Jigfishn10]

I don't fish very often in the winter, especially this time of year. We're usually iced out by now. I had a personal day today and went fishing.

Not a bad couple of hours before the cold rain drops forced me out. A nice 15" pickerel (no picture), a crappie and a perch.

Happy Holiday's All!

[Snakehead Whisperer]

That perch must have been hungry.

[Darren.]

A 3-fish day is a success no matter how you 
slice it! Nicely done.

[flyfisher]

any fish in the cold is a good fish.  I have been killing the sunnies around here on the fly rod here the past few trips.

[Jigfishn10]

11 hours ago, Snakehead Whisperer said:

That perch must have been hungry.

Out of the 3 species, the perch hit and fought the hardest. The other 2 just felt like dead weight on the next twitch, like I snagged.

11 hours ago, Darren. said:

A 3-fish day is a success no matter how you 
slice it! Nicely done.

Thank you, I was really happy with that, especially on 1 lure.

11 hours ago, flyfisher said:

any fish in the cold is a good fish.  I have been killing the sunnies around here on the fly rod here the past few trips.

I absolutely love taking my 5wt fly rod, a Royal Wulff and fishing for gills in the dog days of summer.

 

Thanks for the kind posts guys, I hope you have a great holiday!

[flyfisher]

Get yourself some slow sinking spiders and a 3 wt and then you will really have fun   especially when you catch the occasional bass.

[everythingthatswims]

9 hours ago, flyfisher said:

Get yourself some slow sinking spiders and a 3 wt and then you will really have fun   especially when you catch the occasional bass.

The ol black wooly bugger has caught many December-February bass for me

[flyfisher]

i get so bored with wooly buggers....i don't think i have thrown one in years.  Once I moved to rabbit hair flies it was all she wrote.

[Jigfishn10]

As much as I like fly fishing, it was getting harder and harder around the waters I was fishing at. There just wasn't enough room behind you on the back cast without snagging. Seemed like I was limited to fishing certain angles. 

Fly fishing rivers in Colorado is a different story tho!

[flyfisher]

roll cast my man roll cast...or you can do what i think they call is a steeple cast where you basically cast straight up in the air on the back cast and then spey style it forward...i had been doing it for years before i realized there was a name for it lol.  fishing small mountain streams where i learned to fly fish forces you to get creative with your fly presentations.