Greenie Day

The white bass run is coming to an end in the Somerville creeks so I've turned my attention to crappie and sunfish. I was looking at my fishing log and saw that I tied Chuck's state private water body record for a long ear on March 20th of last year. So I figured I would head out to the pond I caught him in and see if they were biting. It is a crystal clear spring feed pond rich with huge greenies, longear, and a couple different hybrid sunfish species.

I tied on a chartreuse briminator variant, jumped in the yak, and started working my way around the pond. For the first hour and a half I caught green sunfish and green hybrids on almost every cast. The fish were all shallow and chasing minnows. Around 6:30 PM the bite died off. I changed to a crystal black woolly bugger and finished the night with some small bass and another half dozen greenies.

It was funny but a couple of those bigger hybrids, close to 1 lb. actually turned my yak all the way around in a circle. That's one powerful little sunfish

Unfortunately, I didn't catch a single longear. I tried a few different flies and techniques but couldn't find any biting.

Those are some beauties J-Moe. Good job on the fly.




Side Note: Were you using a 3 weight rod?

Thanks, No I was actually using my 5 weight. I had the 3 weight with me but didn't bother to take it out of the case and assemble it. I broke my favorite rod, my 4 weight, last week

Wow ...You're the man!

Would like to get into a few bull greenies like that! Do they taste as good as bluegills and redear

I catch & release everything

Nice Greens Jamie. I have been nailing some nice ones on the Creeks! A.J. I usually eat the Bluegill,Redbreast,and Redear. Never had a Green but friends of mine who eat em love em.

Thanks Chuck, I can't wait to get down there.

We call those chings in my neck off the woods! Sweet pics

Damn J-Moe those are some pigs!!!!!

Chings, I never heard that name before. Thanks for the reply.

Thanks! I am going to be using both my 3 and 5 weights a lot this year. Myself and two other friends will be fishing the Nueces Canyon for a few days in April. Will be fishing both the Nueces and Frio Rivers.

In addition to 3 great fishing ponds on this ranch, there is also a creek running through it. It's a 25 mile creek and where it enters the property is very close to the headwaters. I've fished spots all along this creek and never caught a half pound sunfish. I was told multiple times that prior to the drought of 2011 they used to catch one pound green sunfish everywhere in the creek. The locals call them creek perch or rock bass. It's easy to believe now, knowing how big these green hybrids get.

I fished a couple holes and caught about 15 yesterday. Same chartreuse briminator was working best. But today I broke out the 5' 3" three weight rod that I purchased specifically for creek fishing for panfish.

Love catching sunfish on the fly! Can't get enough of a GREAT thing!

Awesome scenery thanks for the pics

Ching AKA Chinguapin

Awesome post those are some great greenies thrashed em on the fly

Thanks for all the replies. I wish I could catch Greenies this size in public water bodies. Most of the ones I catch in the lakes or creeks are small.

You are catching some tanks in your area J-Moe! Nice fish and nice post.