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#1 worldslaziestninja

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Posted 17 April 2013 - 04:05 AM

I'm going to try it pretty much because I haven;t fly fished in forever but I think I wouldn't fair badly.


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#2 FishingNoob

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Posted 17 April 2013 - 08:57 AM

I'm going to try it pretty much because I haven;t fly fished in forever but I think I wouldn't fair badly.

 

Lots of people fly fish for panfish in the southern U.S.


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Posted 17 April 2013 - 01:37 PM

sounds like a great idea, you successfully got me excited about crappy fishing lol. Im gonna have to head out to the local pond with my 4wt and try it out. Indicator with a little crappie jig should work well.


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Posted 17 April 2013 - 02:58 PM

I've had a lot of luck fishing Crappies on the fly. The very first Crappie I ever caught was on the fly :)


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Posted 17 April 2013 - 03:46 PM

I've had a lot of luck fishing Crappies on the fly. The very first Crappie I ever caught was on the fly :)

 

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#6 Liger

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Posted 17 April 2013 - 03:59 PM

you can get anything on a fly rod. Crappie included. I got acouple last year on a purple leech. fun fun


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Posted 17 April 2013 - 08:29 PM

you can get anything on a fly rod. Crappie included. I got acouple last year on a purple leech. fun fun


Unless your name is Remy....LMAO!!!!!
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Posted 17 April 2013 - 09:09 PM

I constantly catch crappie and bluegills on flies. I fish ponds and use small woolys or scuds under a strike indicator. It helps if there is a bit of chop on the water to put action into the fly.

 

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#9 Giuga10

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Posted 17 April 2013 - 09:43 PM

Unless your name is Remy....LMAO!!!!!

 

Add me to that too, I've caught more branches than fish and lost more flies to trees than fish..... I'm still learning :lol:


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Posted 18 April 2013 - 09:34 AM

we are simply minions G10....minions


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Posted 18 April 2013 - 01:38 PM

I fish flies under a weighted slip float (mandatory for casting) with my light action spinning set up. It's pretty productive if the fish are being picky about tubes. Brown, olive and white with hints of red all work well. Even small streamers will take fish.
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Posted 22 April 2013 - 03:39 PM

Here's a pic from my less than spectacular outing last Thursday. High winds and dense cover around the pond made for very difficult fly fishing. A spinning setup would have been much more effective in this case but the fly was still fun for the novelty side of things.

 

First fish on the Fisheads fly rod!

 

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Posted 24 April 2013 - 11:52 AM

Here's a pic from my less than spectacular outing last Thursday. High winds and dense cover around the pond made for very difficult fly fishing. A spinning setup would have been much more effective in this case but the fly was still fun for the novelty side of things.

 

First fish on the Fisheads fly rod!

 

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Nice fish! What fly is that? Looks like it could be used on a spinning set up...


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Posted 24 April 2013 - 12:24 PM

Its actually a jig, I hammered crappie through the ice on that jig this winter so I figured it would work. I dont have many flies after losing my box full of flies so I just grabbed whatever I could find in the garage.

 

For 40 bucks its a pretty nice looking fly rod, wooden reel seat and all.


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#15 FishingNoob

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Posted 24 April 2013 - 12:52 PM

Its actually a jig, I hammered crappie through the ice on that jig this winter so I figured it would work. I dont have many flies after losing my box full of flies so I just grabbed whatever I could find in the garage.

 

For 40 bucks its a pretty nice looking fly rod, wooden reel seat and all.

 

Thanks, I'll give it a shot.


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