Fly Bass

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Originally uploaded by ...olson family...

Fly-fishing for bass must be the most underrated angling technique. While trout have a mystique of their own in this sport, bass are awesome on a fly rod. Of course, smallmouth may be the ultimate Virginia native freshwater species on a fly.

I fished the lake in our neighborhood four about an hour this morning. I committed to wading and fly fishing for bass. The bass on this lake tend to be small, so fly fishing is a particularly good technique. Now that we are getting into spring my strategy was to wade the outside edges of a creek channel where it empties into the lake. The water was stained so I used a large brown BH wooly bugger, which looks more like a marabou jig than a fly. The fishing started slow, but I eventually got two small bass. Although the fish were small, they were still a lot of fun to catch. Bass are hard fighters on a fly rod and you never know when you are going to hook the five pounder.