Pacemaker Fishing Forum

My truck is back in the shop due to a pesky vacuum issue....but thankfully, Jeff just got a nice new truck so he pulled the Targa to the fishing hole. Definitely a new experience for me.

Today, we had no traffic so we splashed the boat and headed immediately to the radio towers....what? There were 5 other boats there already. We started casting (oh, today was fly only again) and did not get any immediate hits so in to the river we went.

Jeff took the skunk off early....



....and I followed suit. While not hot fishing we picked off many 9-10 inchers and very few of the smaller ones.

We were also catching small stripers!



We made a few drifts around the cove and caught 'em almost everywhere. Much like the day I had with Carlos, these guys wanted the fly dead and low. Often, when we picked up the line, a fish would be on.

Fly fishing for perch takes the game to a whole other level. And, it is sometimes a PIA in my bot because of all of the places the flay can get caught on. And we experienced them all.

After a bit, we went over to another creek but bad no luck but got to see this nice sail boat.



So we headed to the grass filed that has given up many perch.

When we 1st got there, Jeff's fly got hammered and he broke off. No clue what it was but it nearly took the rod out of his hands.

We didn't catch many but Jeff's 10.75 incher, which was biggest of the day, came from under a dock after a great cast.



I also caught a 10+" perch here too.

We were staring to run our of time so we headed to Brewer's Pond but we had an issue. No trolling motor. We had power but the blade would not spin. We caught a few there but could not get a good drift so we went back to the other pond where we proceed to catch some more nice ones.

Then I got hooked up and the fish came up and shook his head and spit the hook. If it was a perch, it would have been the biggest I've ever seen! If a striper, then just run of the mill. Regardless, it was a rush.

At 2, we decided to call it a day and headed back to the ramp zoo although it was not too bad.

When we pulled the boat, I pulled the blade form the TM and there was a ton of line wrapped up in it. Did you do tat Mr. Folts?

Anyway, we had a great day, caught a ton of fish and all on the fly. I can get used to this.....