I've been back from Texas for a couple of weeks now and while the snowbanks are still high my mind has been drifting to thoughts of spring, flowing water and fish. I've been ice fishing a few times, twice for tullibee and three times for perch. Caught some nice tullibee, up to 19 inches but bombed out on the perch. But since this is a fly fishing blog lets leave the ice to the cocktail glasses and start on the plans for the upcoming season.
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| Rod, soft case and hard case |
First up, I finally bit the bullet and purchased a tenkara rod along with some of the associated accessories, which I'm delighted to say are few in number. The rod itself is a Shimano LLS36 NB purchased from TankaraBum, the fly-line comes from a hi-viz 15lb test flourocarbon spool and tippets will be 5X, 6X and 7X.
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| Spool of "fly lines" |
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| various tippet sizes |
The theory is that tippets of 5X and under will break before the rod does on a larger than expected fish. I also bought some micro hooks to start dabbling in micro-fishing; hopefully with a fly.
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| Micro-fishing hooks and bobbers |
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| #26 nymphs |
But if that doesn't pan out, false pride will not prevent me from sacrificing the odd worm in the interests of ichthyological research.