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.
Good luck, hopefully spring will make it up to you soon! Looking forward to seeing your micro catches (fly fishing or no).
ReplyDeleteThanks Ben. And congrats to you on the number of new species caught! Someone catching all those species just blows me away. If I catch any fish worm-dipping I'll have to sneak you the pictures since they aren't allowed in a fly fishing blog. :)
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