Fishingbuddy

Went down to the Nahoon again last weekend for a few casts. We thought we’d try early morning just as the sun comes up, now I’m not fond of getting up early these days and would rather go for the afternoon “shift”, but made an exception for a change. Maybe the early nights are doing me good. Anyways we got there to find some nice activity going on, large schools of springer bubbling on the surface with some big flashes in between. I persisted with the popper casting it all the most likely spots and eventually pulling the popper right through the springer schools in hope that those big flashes were bass feeding. Eventually half way through a retrieve this Nice bass sipped my popper ever so gently off the surface, dived deep, came up like a torpedo and proceeded to try and bury itself in every bit of weed it could find. My 5wt strained as my buddy waited with the net, and after a few scoops of weed landed this beauty.

Fish: Large Mouth Bass
length:approx. 60 cm
fly:white flipper popper, olive marabou tail.
Tackle:5 wt, 8ft. floating line, 9 ft tapered leader, 4kg tippet.
time/date:30 Jan. 2010. early morning
weather:overcast to partly cloudy, slight breezN