Great fishing J-Moe! You have covered a lot of area! Congratulations on your Record Bluegill!

Side Note: Do you get different results on the flies you use on the different water bodies you fish?

For the most part I have found that yellow top water poppers have worked everywhere. I used to use yellow Betts Fancy poppers and they always outperformed other colors. I tie the Llano bug with yellow foam, florescent yellow chenille and yellow with sparkle silver silly legs. It has worked incredibly well at Buescher, Bastrop and the Brazos River the last couple weeks.

As far as the rubber legged dragon. It has replaced my Briminators as my favorite pattern. It has been incredible. A guy named Alan Prater sent some to Hook-Line&Sinker for him and I to try out. Both of us agreed immediately it was the best sunfish pattern we had ever used. There seems to be something special about the combination of the orange bead chain eyes with Chartreuse/black silly legs on a black body and tail. I have caught record hybrid sunfish, Rios, and Red Ear on it. I gave a couple to my friend Alan Hunter and he caught 100 sunfish on them in one day. He immediately tied up more.

These seem to work on every lake, creek or river I fish. Now saying that I have seen certain situations where matching the hatch will outperform these. For instance, last summer Alan and I were fishing a small creek. He had bought some size 12 Rainy's brown hoppers that matched the grasshoppers in the creek exactly. They outperformed every other fly we used.

So to make a short answer very long I would say Yes you can improve your catch rate on different water bodies if you more closely match the hatch.

Some good information! Thanks J-Moe for sharing.

Way to go Jamie, congrats on another record!

I plan to fish the Brazos soon, can't wait. I hear there are some new rules there but don't know any specifics, does it effect fishing out of a kayak?

For the most part I have found that yellow top water poppers have worked everywhere. I used to use yellow Betts Fancy poppers and they always outperformed other colors. I tie the Llano bug with yellow foam, florescent yellow chenille and yellow with sparkle silver silly legs. It has worked incredibly well at Buescher, Bastrop and the Brazos River the last couple weeks.




As far as the rubber legged dragon. It has replaced my Briminators as my favorite pattern. It has been incredible. A guy named Alan Prater sent some to Hook-Line&Sinker for him and I to try out. Both of us agreed immediately it was the best sunfish pattern we had ever used. There seems to be something special about the combination of the orange bead chain eyes with Chartreuse/black silly legs on a black body and tail. I have caught record hybrid sunfish, Rios, and Red Ear on it. I gave a couple to my friend Alan Hunter and he caught 100 sunfish on them in one day. He immediately tied up more.

These seem to work on every lake, creek or river I fish. Now saying that I have seen certain situations where matching the hatch will outperform these. For instance, last summer Alan and I were fishing a small creek. He had bought some size 12 Rainy's brown hoppers that matched the grasshoppers in the creek exactly. They outperformed every other fly we used.

So to make a short answer very long I would say Yes you can improve your catch rate on different water bodies if you more closely match the hatch.

Thanks Andrew

No, it doesn't effect fishing out of the kayak other than the distance from the dam has increased slightly. No more wade fishing. The power generation is now on an automatic setting so there is less time notice when the gates will open.