Ho-hum. If that’s they way you feel about bass fishing sometimes, how about a new challenge? You already know the knots and the spots, after all.
We were two sorry puppies muttering in a canoe, wondering why the trout weren’t leaping into our laps on a sweltering day. Meanwhile, a couple of bass anglers were slaying smallmouths in the nearby bankside cattails where shallow water warmed the bass’metabolisms. We’d hear the occasional remark about our long rods, so we paddled over and offered a wager—our flies versus their lures.
They lost. Sometimes, throwing a fly at bass not only warms your heart, it also shames a boatload of trash talkers. I’m not saying it will always pay off (in our case, literally), but when you’re topped out, bored or looking to take…
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Game & Fish East (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2023