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Blog by: Lloyd Tackitt 11/27/2017 (Return to blogs)
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Those are the weights of the Bass I caught today, standing in one spot, using night crawlers for bait. I used my 5 weight fly rod as usual, so they were all a blast to catch.
7 bass, 20 total pounds, not a bad stringer...well except they didn't go on a stringer, they went back in the water. Also caught two of those big old red ears, they weighed north of a pound but less than two pounds each. When I was bringing them in the Bass were attacking them like crazy. But they were too big for these Bass to eat handily.
My scale just shows pounds only so I'm not sure what the ounces would be to add to these weights, it's one of those boca gripper types, but not that brand. Calibrates to be fairly accurate using known weights.
Night crawlers are an excellent Bass bait - as it turns out.
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opencage
11.27.17 8:39 PM
Nice Lloyd, sounds like a ton o' fun. How do you fly fish those crawlers? Bobber, no bobber? Stripping 'em? Dead drift? All the above?
Lloyd Tackitt (author, aka Lloyd Tackitt)
11.28.17 6:28 AM
What works best for me is I float them under a small airflo airlock strike indicator, which acts like a tiny bobber. I hook the worm in the head end and let the worm dangle like a snake. This spot is four or five feet deep at most so I'm suspending the worm two to three feet deep, just keeping it up off the bottom. I let it dead drift with the wind and current. When the Bass takes it I wait for about 15 seconds before setting the hook as the Bass seem to take off with just a bit of it in their mouth, then go hide from the other Bass and settle down before taking the hook end in.
opencage
11.29.17 10:24 AM
Gotcha, thanks for the good info! That’s a long wait, must’ve taken you a few fish to figure that one out.
Lloyd Tackitt (author, aka Lloyd Tackitt)
11.29.17 10:40 AM
It IS a long wait, but once you get used to it not so bad. Took some real nail biting though... :-)
About the Author
I live on the edge of the Brazos River. I walk out my front door and into the river and - boom - I am fishing just like that. For me the river is fascinating. The mile long stretch I fish is a microcosm of the river, I have it all in that one mile. Trying to figure out where the fish are, what they are doing, why they are doing it, what they are biting, if they are biting - this is what keeps me in the river casting flys. I fly fish almost exclusively. It isn’t that I am a fly fishing snob, it’s that fly fishing works – it’s effective - and it has added benefits. I carry all my tackle in a vest, no tackle box needs to be dragged along. The casting itself is fun, even when I don’t catch fish I’ve enjoyed the experience of casting. Fly rods enhance the experience of bringing fish in. I like the hands on the line feel instead of the feel of line spooling up on a reel and muted down through a gear and crank system. Fish fight better and feel better on a fly rod. Fly fishing just feels better to me than other methods.