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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

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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

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Got fairly seriously into flyfishing last year:

I considered that, but couldn't find any hooks small enough for the flies to
bite.

It's pretty easy to understand the concept, however. The lure gets whipped
around in the air (where flies are), until gravity eventually pulls the line
down to the water's surface. The fly fisherman then reels the line back in, and
once again begins whipping it through the air (where the flies were last
rumored to be, unless fished out).

It's tough to imagine how it could be any sport at all. Everybody seems to use
tackle that's far too heavy to give a fly a sporting chance. Can't imagine
there'd be much "action" if a fly were successfully hooked.

Everything's a compromise, however, and it seems that one of the challenges
with
fly fishing is that on rare instances the lure will become snagged on a fish as
it dragged back across the water. That must explain the heavy tackle. While the
gear is only infrequently snagged on a fish,
after all these years I have yet to personally witness anyone successfully
bagging a fly.

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On 22 Dec 2003 07:00:05 GMT, (Gould 0738) wrote:

after all these years I have yet to personally witness anyone successfully
bagging a fly.

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Flys are best caught with WMDs. When I was about 7 years old, one of
my aunts turned me loose with a fly swatter and a bounty offer of 2
cents per fly. I'm probably still on a wanted poster somewhere in fly
land. No fancy "fly rods" required, just a motivated 7 year old.

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Dynamite.

"JohnH" wrote in message
...
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

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Keith wrote:
Dynamite.

"JohnH" wrote in message
...
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



I've found that NOT baiting the hook produces almost all the delights of
fishing without any of the mess. You get to go out on your boat on the
water, you get to sit in the sun, you get to drink beer, you get to
watch other guys makes idiots out of themselves, you get to take a
snooze, and, when it is time to head for home, your boat wash-out chores
are lighter and, best of all, you can stop at the supermarket on the way
home and buy some already-cleaned fish.




--
Email sent to is never read.

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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!

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

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On 22 Dec 2003 07:00:05 GMT, (Gould 0738) wrote:

Got fairly seriously into flyfishing last year:

I considered that, but couldn't find any hooks small enough for the flies to
bite.

It's pretty easy to understand the concept, however. The lure gets whipped
around in the air (where flies are), until gravity eventually pulls the line
down to the water's surface. The fly fisherman then reels the line back in, and
once again begins whipping it through the air (where the flies were last
rumored to be, unless fished out).

It's tough to imagine how it could be any sport at all. Everybody seems to use
tackle that's far too heavy to give a fly a sporting chance. Can't imagine
there'd be much "action" if a fly were successfully hooked.

Everything's a compromise, however, and it seems that one of the challenges
with
fly fishing is that on rare instances the lure will become snagged on a fish as
it dragged back across the water. That must explain the heavy tackle. While the
gear is only infrequently snagged on a fish,
after all these years I have yet to personally witness anyone successfully
bagging a fly.

Really, really good eyesight is required to witness the actual event. I have
seen them, fly fishermen, actually reel in the line and sure enough...there was
a damn bug (fly, mosquito, or something) on the end of the line - with a hook
through it! Astonishing, but true, so help me.

I spoke with my brother in Kent a couple days ago. He has been doing so much
flying around that he offered to give me enough miles to fly from Dulles to
Seatac and return. I'll probably fly out this spring for a week. Perhaps you'll
extend an invitation to admire your fleet.

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

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I'll probably fly out this spring for a week. Perhaps you'll
extend an invitation to admire your fleet.



Admire? Don't show up during a boat show or a deadline week and you and your
family are invited for a short cruise to a decent or better dining spot
somewhere on the sound. (You buy your own lunch) :-)

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On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 07:56:40 +0000, Harry Krause wrote:

Keith wrote:
Dynamite.

"JohnH" wrote in message
...
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



I've found that NOT baiting the hook produces almost all the delights of
fishing without any of the mess. You get to go out on your boat on the
water, you get to sit in the sun, you get to drink beer, you get to
watch other guys makes idiots out of themselves, you get to take a
snooze, and, when it is time to head for home, your boat wash-out chores
are lighter and, best of all, you can stop at the supermarket on the way
home and buy some already-cleaned fish.

Ya got that right!

When out in Near Cove, I often put a line out so it doesn't look like I'm
just goofing off. "There's a thin line between fishing and standing on the
shore like an idiot"

Lloyd