So I have slowed my fishing obsession down a little in the last couple weeks. There is no one reason for it but a bunch of them. Even with this pull back I have had a chance to go do my favorite fishing of all, small mouth bass on the Housatonic river with a fly rod.
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| First fish that was bigger then 8 inches (with a gurgler variation in its jaw) |
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| A nice 13 inch fish weighing in at about a one pound. |
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| This was me after that trip to the river. Catching bass takes it out of ya. |
I have been fishing one time since then (the 4th of July week). Yesterday I spend an entire day fishing and I haven't done that in a long time. I fished a weed choked pond in town and had a blast. Stuck mainly with the bait cast rod and a frog but made a few casts with the fly rod as well. After the first dozen fish or so I stopped counting but kept having fun. Most of these large mouth weighed in at a pound or two with one hitting the two and a half mark. There were no lunkers but man was it fun and a funny thing happened I actually stopped fishing. I hit that point where I was either tired enough, dehydrated enough, or just plan done fishing for a couple hours. It was refreshing to fish like this. No time constants, no other people around (it was Wednesday after all), and no weather to worry about.
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| cooky cutter bass but tons for fun on a frog |
Thanks for reading and hopefully I'll have a new adventure soon.
Bruce
