#weightforward

I'm in Ohio for the holidays, and we did a little bit of fishing today. I caught this trout on a #12 wet fly. These are the last of the no-name barbless hooks that I ordered from big ubiquitous internet vendor to tie my first flies. It's got a pheasant hackle, some green wool, and a pink hot spot right at the bend of the hook. I swung the fly with a regular roll cast on a regular cheapo weight-forward fly line using my 3wt rod.

#FlyFishing #fishing #trout #weightforward

A trout in a net. A fly is visible in it's lip

I did return to the swamp last night. This was certainly not my largest catch, but it was the most interesting catch.

#swamp #marsh #bog #lake #fishing #FlyFishing #weightforward #hiking #nature #sunfish #greensunfish #ambition

A small green sunfish in a person's hand

Last night I went to check out Sweetwater Creek State Park. It is a little too far away to visit multiple times a week. I caught a couple of brilliant Red Breast Sunfish and a small Shoal Bass.

Tonight, I went to a familiar swamp, and the fishing was hot. I caught 5 different kinds of sunfish and totally lost track of the number of fish. Caught all of them on a size 12 wet fly with my 4 weight rod.

#fish #fishing #flyfishing #bassfishing #bass #sunfish #swamp #creek #weightforward #hiking #nature #outdoors #gooutside

A brilliant red breast sunfish in a man's hand. There is a dark moose-hair fly fishing lure hanging out of its mouth. It's breast is a brilliant orange, which fades to a turquoise or azure color on the fish' side to a darker color on the back. The dorsal fin and tail tips are kissed with bright orange.A scene at a swamp. Vegetation frames murky water that reflects an overcast sky.

Took one of my old Fenwick rods out to the swamp last night. The water was stained. I had some strikes but never made solid contact with a fish.

#swamp #fenwick #fiberglass #flyfishing #fishing #nature #outdoors #hiking #sunset #clouds #weightforward

Pink and orange clouds; green vegetation. All reflected in still water.

Pumpkin spice glass beads for pumpkin spice sunfish. For some reason, I start seeing these warmouth sunfish late summer into early fall.

I caught it on a new-to-me Fenwick FF70 7' 5-6 weight fiberglass fly rod that has the date 7/7/70 written on the rod tube. The glass beads came from a bead shop in Athens Ohio. One of the feathers came from a pheasant, and the other came from my new ratty rooster skin.

#glassbeads #pumpkinspice #warmouth #sunfish #flyfishing #flytying #weightforward #fiberglass #rooster #pheasant

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