On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 09:17:27 +0000, JohnH wrote:

On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 22:41:17 -0800, "Lloyd Sumpter" wrote:

On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 23:54:12 +0000, JohnH wrote:

for all good men to think about fishing next spring. What lures should one
carry for jigging, trolling, or top fishing? Spoons? Bucktails? Poppers? Jigs
with Bass Assassins? What works best?

John
On the 'Poco Loco' out of Deale, MD

Got fairly seriously into flyfishing last year: got my Doc Spratleys,
Georgi-damsels, muddlers, chironomi..chriomnom...chonimo...skeeter larvae, and
of course lots of woolly boogers!

Gonna try flycasting from the mouseboat next year, as well as getting out to
Sumas River after work on the motorbike, flyrod and Vinyl Valeria strapped to
the back. (tried casting from shore last weekend: there are now a woolly bugger
and a Doc Spratley about 20ft up a tree...)

Lloyd Sumpter
"Tin Boat" Mirrocraft 12

I don't do the fly-fishing thing, but it is popular up in the northern part of
the Ches. Bay in an area called the Susquehanna Flats. This is a spawning area
for Striped Bass, and the water is pretty shallow thereabouts. Catching a 20lb
striper on a fly rod would probably be too much excitement for this old man!


Ya got that right!

At BCAdventures.com, some feather-chuckers talk about fly-fishing for
salmon. A 6-lb coho or pink I can see, but if you hooked into a 20+ lb
Chinook, all you'd see is all that expensive flyline spinning off the
reel, followed by the backing and then snap!. (I lost one once with 150
ft of 25-lb test. Now I use 300+ ft)

I'll save my Fancy Coloured Line for the trout, thanks.

Lloyd