Fallser

I do enjoy fishing. Granted I live in a big city and it's tough to find a bit of quiet and solitude. Sometimes it's there. On my home stream, which I avoid on the opening day of trout season, I can find places where I'm the only one fishing. There's one place I really enjoy fishing when you get dug in, you might not see another boat the whole day.

Nice perch. Topo maps are available, but don't show the water depth in the ponds. One thing you might try is using the satellite view in Google maps. I do that to check out lakes I'm not familiar with. You can get an idea of what the ponds look like. You can see the deeper areas by the change in water color, even see some of the structure.

Welcome. I've fished the Little Lehigh a couple of times, and the Delaware in the area, long time ago. I wouldn't be surprised to find bass, either largemouth or smallmouth, in the lower stretches of the Little Lehigh. The Lehigh and the Delaware have bass. You aren't that far from Beltzville or Mauch Chunk lakes. Not familiar with the lakes and ponds you mentioned. Generally, my fishing buddies and I drive past your area and head up to the Northern Poconos, and fish the smaller lakes around Lake Wallenpaupack.

Some nice ties, flyfisher. Good job on the Game Changers and Sex Dungeon. I'm just about finished refurbishing old flies. Still have to change the heads on my floating mop flies, including the bass size ones. Plan to add a marabou tail to some of them. I should have some new ones to post over the weekend.

I think I can find enough to keep me occupied. I'm a fly fisherman 95% of the time. I'll be tying flies and organizing my fly boxes for the spring. I'm trying to come up with a Ned fly. I've got one fly rod I've been building, the guides are all wrapped just need the clear coat on them. I need to replace the cork foregrip on my 6 wgt. I've got a spinning rod I'm building for one of my fishing buddies and an old 9' 10 wgt fiberglass fly rod I plan to convert to a spinning rod. I'll be making some in-line and Mepps style spinners for the guys I fish with. Looks like our Ontario and the two week long trips to the Poconos we had to cancel in 2020 will be back on this year. I should replace the fluorocarbon and braid on my spinning reels and the braid on the light lever drag reel I use for trolling. Check the hooks on all my lures, replace as needed. Make sure I have enough jigs and soft plastics. That should keep me occupied till it warms up again.

When I kept them I kept them on a stringer. When I was ready to fillet them, I'd hit them on the head a couple of times with the handle of my fillet knife.

Looking forward to seeing them. I can always use new ideas. It's going to be a long winter with the virus and recovering from knee surgery. Plan on tying a lot of flies.

Add a few more. This is a mix of salt water and bass/pike patterns. They can be fished as top water, or a subsurface fly.

Not recently, but they were a major hazard when either my dad or I were mowing my grandmother's lawn. Many a day the gas mower ran out of gas as it sat over a yellow jacket nest after one or the other had abandon it.

Let's see if y'all can help an old man out and come up with the weight for this fish. It was caught in late May, post spawn. The fish is held close to my body. The person taking the picture was about 4 or 5 feet away. I had neither a tape measure or a scale. I'm about 16" from shoulder to shoulder. My estimate was 21 inches and around 5 lbs.

I went to college in NW Tennessee, and when going through freshman orientation, because I had a funny accent, some of my fellow students asked me where I was from, and I said Philadelphia, Pa. They offered to take me over to the AG barn and show me a cow. That weekend, a friend who had been there for a year invited me to BBQ at one of the English professor's farm. We were sitting around getting high and someone came by with a tray of BBQ and offered me some. I took a few pieces and started to eat them, and I noticed everybody looking at me. What?. Do you know what you're eating? Yep, Squirrel, not bad. I like them in stew. End of trying to fool the city slicker. It's amazing how adaptable wildlife can be, in the city, beside the usual squirrels, racoons and opossum, we have a decent herd of deer, which is culled every to keep them from consuming the park, wild turkeys, foxes and coyotes. One thing I see in the city that I haven't seen in the wild are black squirrels. That would be score for my fly tying materials if I could catch one of them in my .22's scope out in the woods.

One of my projects over the winter is to replace the grip on my 6 wgt. The current grip is a half wells with an insert. The insert has sort of disintegrated over the years and grip itself has a loose front half. I was thinking of getting another half wells with the cut out but decided to go with just the plain half wells without the cut out. It's comes down to your preference.

For me it's seasonal. By choice. Being a fly fisherman has a bit to do with it. Generally, my bass season runs from May to early to mid-October. Mid-October through November, depending on the ocean water temperature and the weather I focus on salt water fishing hoping there's a fall run of stripers and bluefish. November through March is down time. Tying flies, fixing or building rods, sorting through flies and lures. If I get a warm day, mid-forties or higher, I'll chase trout. Late March through April is trout season.

Pretty much what MickD said. I'm a fly fisherman, so I put a needle in my vise and after I cut the curly tail off the worm, I slid the worm on the needle. Made some wraps with clear polyester thread around the worm, laid a piece of marabou on top of the worm, wrapped that down, rotated the worm and tied another piece of marabou on the bottom. Covered both pieces with wraps and then used a flexible UV resin to hold it in place. I also toyed with the idea of using thin piece of wire, tie the marabou on the end and coat the other bare end with super glue and insert that into the back of the worm. I'm not sure how durable that would be. I got the winter to play with. I got plenty of grubs, solid body tubes, worms, senkoes to play with. I wonder what it would do if I added some marabou to a TRD body.

I used 3" PVC to make rod holders for the beach when I was doing a lot of surf fishing. I was using 9 and 10 foot surf rods, so the they were about 3 feet long.

Nice. Haven't done any shark fishing in years and all of that was done from a boat. Never tried it fishing from shore.

Pretty sure chubs don't eat larger minnows If you've got some in the 1 inch or so range they may go after them. More likely to eat fry. They feed mainly on aquatic critters along with mayfly, dragonfly and damselfly nymphs

Figured I bump this topic up. Easier for me to find. These are "revised" flies. Years ago I came up with a streamer I really liked by modifying Bob Popovic's "Semper Fleye". I tied up a bunch to take up to Ontario, mainly for pike, but also for smallmouth. Looking back at pictures, it looks like I only fished the all white ones. When I got back and unpacked the wallet I had them I stuck it in some dark corner until I found them last week. They needed a bit of work to make them fishable. I plan to fish them for largemouth and smallmouth, chain pickerel and possibly muskie. Not sure where they fit into the lure category, soft plastics maybe. Subsurface, 6 to 8 inches long, lot of movement and flash.

We had our trip cancelled this year because of the virus. Rolled our deposits over to next year. Since our week doesn't start until August 28th, hopefully there will be a vaccine available by then. Getting the injection might be the ticket for getting across the border. Can't really help with fly-in trip. We've been doing a drive-in trip for almost 30 years now. We drive to the pick-up point and then it's a 19 mile boat ride to the lodge.

I've had smallmouth swallow a circle hook on me though I was using leeches and not minnows. Still I find the circle hook better for catch and release. Bobber fishing, make sure you reel it in quickly.

Didn't give away all my worms. Took me a bit to take a picture. I settled with adding some marabou to the tail. Buck Tail and various hairs wouldn't have as much action.

Watching the football game. Sipping 2 shots of 100 proof vodka mixed with black raspberry sparkling water. Helps me relax.

That makes more sense. Easy to tie the hair or marabou on the hook shank in front of the worm. It's going to be harder to tie it on the tail, since you're dealing with soft plastic. I can think of one way to do it without damaging the plastic worm. I'll have to check and see if I have any worms in my tackle box. I think I gave most, if not all of them, to my fishing buddies. It's tough to toss a plastic worm with a fly rod.

Years ago I used bucktail jig with a purple fire tail worm threaded on the hook for weakfish. Does that count? I'm not sure what you're describing. I can see a worm and buck tail or other hair combination, but it sounds like you want to add another worm to much. Not sure that's workable.