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fishing_graham
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FLY FISHING
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4/13/2004 11:37:35 AM
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Does anyone have any info on fly fishing in Lake Martin? Any tactics or fishing hitting top water baits?
URL: Fly Fishing
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effie
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FLY FISHING
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4/29/2004 9:54:16 PM
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My 15 year old son is a fly fisherman on the lake. He uses some bugs we got in Montana. He couldn't remember the name. He said he fishes later in the evining and pops the bugs on the water a couple of times before he gets a hit. Bass and Bream. Oh yea he caught his nose as well a couple weeks ago and the ER in Dadeville had never seen anything like that before. I have told him to crimp those barbs a couple of times but teenagers just don't listen.
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friendly
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FLY FISHING
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5/6/2004 11:53:43 PM
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I enjoy flyfishing on Lake Martin. I used to do it exclusively but now I "Bubba fish" half the time to at least assure a few fish.
I am working on a combination of the two that seems to work. This lake is so clear that the fish are very wary of lines and hooks, at least on the lower lake and up to this point in the year. If I am fishing a crankbait that wiggles I commonly see the smaller spots go after the line where it enters the water. The vibration seems to attract them and there is no question they see the line.
So try to use a small tippet; flurocarbon is best. I have had the most success recently with a 4 inch chartreuse lizard. I hide a #2 hook in it, entering just below the head of the lizard at the neck. This places the hook lower where they tend to bite, and gives the head more action. I would much rather catch a fish on a single hook, that is easy to remove, than injure the fish with the two-treble-hook setup on most lures. Usually with the lizard they will commit to it and fight you holding it in their mouth for a while even with the hook not set.
The fish are very responsive to a natural sink of the lure. In my experience they do not like an unnatural weight. They just rise to it, then sit around and "committee" the lure but won't attack. My measure of success is to produce a strike from the fish from several feet away. If they are not competing for the lure, and have time to come up to it and inspect it, 9 times out of ten they will not hook up.
The 4 inch lizard (and the 5 inch)is easy to cast with a 7 or 8 wt rod. The shorter white grub is even easier to cast; they both get interest from the larger bass (pull it away from the smaller ones) fished around blow-downs at the shoreline. It turns out one of the most active places I have found is Acapulco Rock, fishing toward where the boats tie up, in early morning.
It is difficult to get the clunky action bass like from a fly. Deer hair plugs work in the summertime in early morning and late evening. Red-and -white combo and chartreuse seem to me to get the most action. Imitate their food, which would be a wounded shad minnow, a frog, or a snake. You cannot splash these flies too hard. Nothing beats a hungry bass attacking on the surface!!
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