Friday after work, while trying to decide what to do, my friend Mike called with an idea to hit up a few local lakes from the shoreline after dark, and not deal with the boats, hoping to pick up a few fish at each spot and move on. Our first Lake produced a keeper largemouth for Mike, a small largemouth for me, and plenty of bug bites for both of us. Lake #2 proved to be our hot spot of the night, where this smallmouth was our lunker of the night:
We each caught a few nice fish at this spot, then moved onto Lake #3, which didn't even cough up a single fish! No big deal, we had our fun.
Saturday evening I decided to do a little hiking into one of my favorite smallmouth haunts with the flyrod. It wasn't long before I was into fish, with this keeper inhaling a green over white deceiver:
A few more smallies followed suit, but then a couple strips into a long cast the water exploded, my slack line disappeared, and my drag started singing! I had a hunch this was a striper, but my hopes were on big smallmouth. A few minutes in I was able to get a look at my fish, and striper it was. One of the most fun battles I've ever had on a flyrod, as this fish was far larger than anything I intended on landing tonight on my trout rod!
Onto Sunday night, I hiked again, this time a solid 25 minute hike up river. Once I started fishing I was quickly rewarded for my efforts with a beautiful, calm, stretch of river to myself, and better yet, hungry smallmouths....mostly smallmouths anyway, my first fish was a largemouth, a first for me from this stretch of river:
After a few smallies came to hand, I saw a trout rising. Too lazy to change to a more appropriate fly, I threw a 4" deceiver at it. It took him two tries, but he managed to inhale it...
So, that was my weekend in fishing! I hope everyone enjoyed their holiday as much as I did. I'm hoping to have some time on the salt this week, I'll keep everyone posted!
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