A Day on the Water

I have the new KoreaSun 7023BN 1X Strong curved nymph hook sizes #6 down to #14.  Straight eye, nice curved shank and long points with the barb well forward of the bend to hold fish well.  Points are long enough to hold fish well if the barbs are bent down or broken off. I also got in more sizes of KoreaSun trout hooks $4.00 per 50pack: 7023BN straight eye heavy wire long point Curved Nymph Size #6 down to #14 7018BN straight eye curved shank Klinkhamer Emerger now #6 down to #18 7052 down eye Curved Light Wire Scud now...

About 3:30 PM hit the Clinton River Cutoff Mouth.  Dark, drizzling, cold and the wind was cooperating.  But the rain had muddied the Clinton River had turned the bay to the color of strong coffee with cream.  Fished a hot spot with a 5/0 White Dive Banger ripping it in hard pops to try to get noticed.  Same in the near shore corner of the old boat launch bay. Out the long rip rap Break wall on the far east of the bay had better water clarity but no bait fish seen and not one fish moved to 5/0 or...

Sand Hill Crane Foraging on left, Eagle Nest on Right.  In the first patch of cattail cover, I  took the first Pike, a crappie and the first bass on a 4 inch 1/0 White Bead Head Jiggy Bucktail fly pattern.  Moving to the the long rip rap dike, I hooked and lost a few more Bass. Long Dyke neat the Boat Ramp looking West. I paddled up wind to the shallow end of the Dyke and switched to a floating 3/0 Silver-White Dive Banger popper. That got hit regularly and I got the biggest pike of the day and the best...

I started on Lake Hudson at the big point and caught an 11 inch bass there on a 5/0 White-Silver Musky Dive Banger.  Lots of boats on the lake. I hopscotched down the lower north shore.  Everybody was polite, respectful and obeying the lake no wake rule.  I headed to the back of one of the finger bays in the Bear Lake Backwaters.  There is a 3 feet wide,5 inch deep beaver channel back to an extremely shallow and weedy pond where bowfin spawn.  I spooked a big fish in that tiny channel that was certainly a huge bowfin.  The...

That Sinking Feeling.  New delivery of top quality Tungsten beads at low prices, more beads in the bag. 30 Tu Slotted  1/8 inch 3.0mm   Sliver, Copper, Black Nickel   $4.00 30 Tu Cyclops  7/64 inch  2.8mm  Silver  Black Nickel             $4.00 27  Tu Slotted  9/64 inch 3.5mm   Black Nickel              $4.00 27 Tu Cyclops  5/32 inch  3.8  Black Nickel, or Silver    $4.00 25  Tu Slotted  5/32 inch   4.0mm Tungsten unplated   $4.00 22 Tu Slotted  5/32 inch  4.0mm  Black Nickel              $4.00           17 Tu Cyclops 3/16 inch  4.6mm Cyclops  Sillver or Unplated  $4.00 17  Slotted ...