Fly fishing in Korea

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.