I had a $25 gift certificate from Orvis and they had a sale and free shipping on flies. I bought some flies for bass and had a little over $2 left. They have something called a shaky worm which is basically a San Juan worm made out of plastic. I bought one to fill out my order.

Yesterday morning I went to a local pond. I started out with a popper but didn't hook anything. The pond is long and narrow and when I got to the end it was shallow and I could see bluegill on beds.

I put on the worm and caught a couple of bluegill, but they were mostly just giving it a look and maybe bumping it.

I cast out into deeper water let it sink for a bit and stripped it once when I got a hard tug and knew it wasn't another gill. It wound up being this 17" bass.



I went to another part of the pond and got a couple more bluegill before one bit the tail off. They do that on a lot thicker conventional worms and trailers so I wasn't too surprised.

Great fish man! Don't guess it matters what the material is fish will tear it up at some point.

Good looking fish there.

Very nice catch !

Last year I was wearing out keeper size stripers on a size 16 yellow sally fly. My buddy didn't believe me when I showed him what fly I used until he started fishing next to me and saw me wearing them out.