tarponfly i sent ya a pm

Showed Dipson, the way of the fly rod. He picked it up pretty quick. Definetly caught a limit, but CPR'ed.

Then I hit lake Lavon. Which is on another thread.

WTG

What a day: Monday Funday ( multi species report )

Video Fly Fishing for Sandies ( Below )



Started at Creek X with a fly fishing client at 730am. His first cast didnt really go anywhere, but the next cast he rolled it out perfectly. And, wouldnt you know it, he hooks up.



He then tells me, "Going to be a slow day, huh?". He caugth 40-50 and he was done at 10 am. 95% of his casts resulted in a hook up or bite. And only two other fly fisherman on the entire creek.



Solitude at its best.


After I dropped him off his his car, I went back down and got a limit of sandies in 30 mins or so. -I was side tracked tring to float a fly past some 40lb Grass carp eating disk shaped seeds on the surface. All I had were some clousers and one elk hair caddis which they ignored. But, I have a good fly now, to throw at them next time. ( I was CPR on sandies today so no hero pic )

11:30AM: I arrive home and kicked stuff around the garage. I was bored, so I figured, I'd take the boat out to Lady Lavon for some crappie before the rain hits (sprinkled on me for 5 mins).

2:00 pm: I quickly arrived in a cove and started to fish the shallows in 1-4 ft of water.




I hit every stump I could reach. I landed 34 Male crappie, all keepers from 12-13 inches on average. Not one female. I probably hit 40-45 stumps. So, I went out in to 9-16 ft of water and fished brush and tree tops. In 45 mins I had landed 14 Fat Slabs and everyone of them was 14 inches or so.





All Crappie are still swimming.

5:30 pm: Im home again. Boat back in garage. I'm bored again. So, I am off to Rowlett Creek to find something big to pull some drag!

6:10 pm: My drag starts to scream!

Awesome stuff Carey. Way to get them allll over the dfw

Great stuff Carey

Unfortunately for the fish you get bored easy.

That is a fishing marathon.

Hey Tarpon was all this on Rowlett Creek , Ive always wanted to walk down it . to see how far it goes , can you tell me I've always wanted to see this Hell Hole is it up or down from the shooting range.

200 yards downstream of the Firewheel Bridge. Way downstream of gun range.

Cold Front
Just Flooded 6 Hours Before Trip Started
Fish Didn't Care
Pink Was King Today



Today was a great day, as usual. Clients limited within 30-40 mins. Got to the creek and it was muddy looking. But, we could see our baits 1-2 inches or so under water. Fished slow, and they caught well over 100+ sandies each. They had a fish on the line pretty much the whole time. They were doubling up 70-80% of the time.



Lots of mags and fat females. We tried minnows a couple times but they wouldn't touch them! Not one fish off a minnow. Just jigs and small cranks. We could blind cast out into the pocket and you catch one just by reeling in.



Pink/chart Thump Buddy's from lightsouttackle.com, was tearing them apart.

After my clients got the hang of it, they ran off down the creek on their own for 1-2 hours. It didn't matter where they went, the fish were in every pocket we went to. Great day of joy joy. So when they were wondering around the creek, I stayed with the gear and BaffinBay was chilling with me at the Hell Hole II. There are a pair of Mallard ducks that have a nest close by, and I see them everyday. At one point they spooked, and flew right at us and over are heads. So, I thought maybe someone was coming up the trail. Then I hear a big big fish slash in the rapids, so I looked over and saw a deer standing in the rapids. I looked at BaffinBay and told him to look downstream. Two deer ran accross the rapids and up the cliff. First time Creek Deer in DFW. Red Fox, Otters, Mink, Owls, Coyotes, Bobcat, seen all of them there now.



And of course the Hero Pic

Started the day off with a 20 inch Hybrid on the first cast.



Then nothing but sand bass, on every cast pretty much. The guys limited out by 9 am.







Then it was my turn later on in the day.



Hooked 14 Hybrids today. Would have gotten more but the super secret bait of the day, was terrible in quality.

Hung out with Acehole and BaffinBay half the afternoon.

Acehole, got to grab my rod when a hybrid took off with the bait during my hero Pic. Thats why I look surpised while staring at my rod almost getting yanked into the water....



-And this was the result of my Carbon-Lite almosted getting yanked in the creek.....

Damn....WTG

What are your rates again?

Bank and/or Wade Trips: Sandbass, Hybrids, Crappie

$150/ 2 people

$75 each additional persons - up to 6 people max per trip.

Hybrid trips: 2 people max. -$150

Boat trips @ Lavon, Lewisville, Hubbard: $225 ( sandies, hybrids, black bass, channel cats, crappie )

Broken Bow, Oklahoma for spinning tackle or fly rod targeting Rainbow Trout and Brown Trout - $225 half day two people - $75 each additional persons. I try to keep that 4 person max.