Friday, May 6, 2011

The King is dead......Long live the King!

Ladies and gentlemen below is my first real fish on a fly.


It wasn't a trout but it sure was bigger than my last two catches. I moved up the river some and decided to cast into the rapids below a dam. 

I felt the tug and brought him ashore. Now if the Boston Bruins can win tonight it will be a good night all around.

17 comments:

  1. Nice going Mac. Patience and persistence pay off. Whatever it is...

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  2. Thanks Howard. I appreciate the encouragement all along the way. Now if Erin can wish that you have a good weekend fishing you will be all set. Have a great time fishing this weekend. I was just invited to go out tomorrow morning (at the place where the blog picture was taken by the guy in the picture). I will be bringing my fly rod as well as a spinner rod. It is suppose to rain so I will play it by ear.

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  3. Ed - NICE FISH!!! Congrats on your first fish...or shall I say, "real fish"...on a fly! And it even looks like the Bruins are going to win, eh!?

    Cofisher - I hope you have a GREAT weekend fishing! ;)

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  4. You sure you didn't catch another shiner and he just ate it before you got it in? Just kidding, congrats on the first real fish. Hope you catch his big brother tomorrow.

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  5. Thanks Erin..,you must of read the wish for the lottery after the drawing. :) The Bruins did win and now they play Tampa Bay. This is the first time they are in the Eastern Conference Finals since 1992. Cup fever is gripping the city especially since the Celtics have a similar road the Bruins did against Montreal (down two) and not to mention the Red Sox aren't playing so great.

    Anthony...the way things were going you could have been right about my catching another shiner first. I am hoping for another species (i.e. trout) soon.
    Thanks.

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  6. Nice job Ed....anyone identify the fish yet?...it is hard to tell from that angle but it looks like a fallfish.

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  7. Thanks Mike.

    No one has identified the "shiners" and the last fish one I caught looked like a bass to me; however, I checked out what a fallfish looks like (I never heard of them) and they have many more distinctive scales than the last fish I caught.

    Also, it said that they make a sucking sound when they are out of water and the fish didn't make any sound (just wiggled a lot to try and get off the hook).

    I might go out later this evening and see how it goes. I am going to try another spot.

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  8. Ed...are you sure it is a bass..the dorsal fin doesn't look right....of course it could be the angle of the shot

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  9. Mike...I just came back from the river and caught a few more of these fish and you were right about them being a fallfish. I had never heard of these before you mentioned them yesterday. The scales were there like in the picture I saw earlier in the day. Good catch (pun intended).

    There will be no more pictures until I have a trout to show.

    The nice thing is that I am getting better at noticing when a fish is on the line and hooking them. A few got off because when I was pulling in the line I got "rope burn". I will fix that with a glove in the future or make sure the line is wet.

    I won't doubt you again when it comes to identifying fish. :)

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  10. Catching fallfish isn't a bad thing....like you said you are getting practice. I wonder if the trout have been picked over on that river. I have heard the stocking is not quite so plentiful on some rivers.

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  11. I haven't seen as many people fishing lately but earlier people definitely were pulling rainbow out of there (and keeping them)so maybe all the stocked fish have been taken or the fish scattered to colder water since the levels are down.

    I will be moving along to some other locations along the river to see if I can finally catch a trout.

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  12. Sweet! A huge step up from the last couple! I can't wait for the trout post!

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  13. Thanks BCFN.

    I have a couple of days off so I am going to head to the river tomorrow morning. If Mike C is right, then I may have to start looking for another place to fish (which means traveling further).

    I can't wait to get that elusive trout.

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  14. Congrats for your first fish on the fly. What fly were you fishing?

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  15. Thank you sir.
    I used a Pheasant Tail. It seemed to attract fish because the shiners loved it (obviously) and these fallfish loved it also (I caught about five of them on it). Unfortunately the trout haven't found it yet. I am enjoying fly-fishing to the point that I am not that excited about spinner fishing but bass fishing hasn't started in earnest yet.

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  16. I consider Fallfish to be my "school" fish. They are great to hone your skills on as they are more eager and less wary than trout, they'll hit streamers, gobble drifted nymphs, rise to and slam dry flies, and are plentiful even in warmer water. When first starting out, there's so much to learn, like how and when to set the hook on a rise, what it feels and looks like when a fish takes a deeply-fished streamer, and how to detect takes when nymphing. These fish are great teachers. And they can put up a good fight too!
    I caught my first fish this season only a couple days ago when a 20" "Fallie" inhaled one of my home tied wooly buggers. Nope, not a trout, but I'm still smiling thinking about it.
    Nice fish by the way, keep at it!

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  17. Thanks Dan.

    Fallfish sure do like to eats nymphs and put up a good fight.

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