Well my fishing vacation just keeps getting better. I started Friday morning at Overlook Marina. The bluegill have not moved up into the shallow waters yet but they are seeing a few staging in deeper water. I fished about an hour and caught 2 small bluegill.

I ran over to my favorite bluegill pond and caught about 8 bluegill. The biggest going over 10 inches.

Finally, after spending a little time chasing bass with conventional gear I headed over to the ranch to chase longear. Bingo, I only caught 2 longer, in addition to 6 greenies and 3 bass. But those longear were beautiful. Not as beautiful as the ones in the San Marcos river. But for a pond the are a real treat to catch and behold. Even one of the greenies was showing off his best colors today. Mating is in full bloom in the ponds!!!!

Those fishes look so pretty! Nice catches!

Thanks Moon

Thanks ChefMike, Linecaster and Kirk for the replies. Glad we can help you keep your sanity another day Kirk, LOL!!!

From about 5 minutes ago.



Good news is, its green, not white. I'm just gonna take my fly rod out there to see what might be in there!

Kirk

Kirk just next to the base of that tree looks like it may hold a nice bass!!!

Now that's funny

Hey j don't forget I have the private lakes I manage for trophy bass. Take the briminator as well we have caught blue gill and shell crackers to two pounds as well as crappie over 3. We have had several bass in the the teens we could always get a day on the water there as well.

I am ready!!!!

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll try it!
We got 2 1/2" yesterday.
Sun is shining, now, tho!

Kirk

I continue to have great success with the Briminator.

I caught this State Private Water Body Record Longear on the Briminator.

It was 8.25 inches long and weighed 0.56 lbs.

That thing has some linebacker shoulders!

I never thought about it that way, very astute observation. Made me laugh, I could see what you mean.

I continue to experiment with a lot of subsurface flies but I always come back to the Briminator. It continues to be by far my most productive pattern for Bluegill and Sunfish. I also continue to take a lot of liberties with Tony's design.

I was experimenting with crawfish patterns and colors. I decided to tie up a "Crawfish Briminator". The tail and body are tied with Crawfish orange rabbit hair and a crawfish orange hackle. This has been one of my most productive patterns so far.

Thanks for a new "Briminator" pattern