So I have basically sucked at posting anything to my blog so I'm going to try changing that. I wanted to do this blog to post pictures about things that I do around here, but until Kristi got here I really never did get out and do much mainly because of the monsoon season and I didn't know anyone who fly fished. Problem has been solved and we've been hitting a reservoir that's only a couple miles from my dorm so it's easy to get to by bike. We've hit it now a couple of times and the fishing seems to be really awesome while I'm not there and dead when I am. We are primarily fishing for large mouth bass here in Korea since that is what we have near by. The reservoir has lots of pads along the edge, but there are places where we have open water 5-15 feet out. Never really have bass fly fished before, mainly stream fished for trout so this has been a new challenge. My first time out last weekend I caught 5 dinks and one of which was a shad. The next evening we hit a new location on the back side of the reservoir. It was doing alright for the other guy, but for me only 1 dink which got off before I got a hold of it. Tonight was a different story though. After losing my last leader due to the knot giving out (first time that has happened) and losing another tippet leader (which I used a quick knot for) I finally landed 2 good size bass, well they at least fought pretty good. They were both around 7 inches, 1 of which I was able to lip, the other however spit the hook out as I reached for him. I didn't really care much though, I was just happy I finally caught a couple of fighters.
This is looking to the right at the reservoir. Lots of Lily's, and a little bit of water. The bass come from under the lily's though and strike.
Simply looking the other direction.
Me finally lipped a decent fighter large mouth bass.
The tool that made it all happen. Don't know what you want to call it, but I call it "It works" not really though. It is a size 8 hook though. Threw a size 2 for a little bit and that seemed to be too big for what they wanted. Every time I threw this I had a bite; too bad I didn't try it earlier in the evening.
We ended up doing some fishing off the dock, and also some off to the left. We found the water to have lots of foliage throughout even when it looked like there was none. We did find this to be helpful in getting the fish. I was throwing the same fly as yesterday since it seemed to work well. Sure enough it did. I caught 7 large mouth bass tonight and my buddy Turkey caught 12. The weather was around 70 degrees. It had cooled off today compared to most days and we had cloudy skys. We were getting a pretty good wind too most the evening which was making the fly presentation a pain since it was hard to aim tonight.
This is my little one. This is what most of my fish looked like tonight. Not a big guy, but they sure do put up a good fight.
This was my best tonight. He weighed in probably close to a pound. I actually had 2 others on about this size, but they make a good run for the weeds and get you tangled up so they can get off the fly. I think they know what they are doing. Oh well, they still put up a good fight while they were on. Gonna head out again tomorrow evening; the spot TBD.
This picture is mainly to reference the size.
