Rick sounds like you had a very good season. What part of the Midwest do you live in? I am in Michigan. I had two favorite fish this year. One was a 17" stream brown with an 11" girth, weighed 3 1/2 pounds, second favorite a 36" hen steelhead caught in a local creek. Both are my favorites because they were caught in the Detroit area. I have caught other very nice fish but to catch fish like that locally in an area that is know for its warm water fishery just strikes my fancy. I caught the steelhead on a copy of one of the foam swap flys the crayfish one while fishing for smallmouths in the being of October.
Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard D Zieger OD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2001 10:44 AM Subject: Re: [VFB] one more question for the tyers/fishers > I fish every Saturday or sunday when there is not ice on the ponds. I also > go out over my lunch hour 3 days a week to the local lake. > > So I wet a line alot of times. Spend about 80% of my time with the fly rod. > > Live in the Midwest with lots of fertile ponds around I catch alot of fish. > My best guess is that I caught over1500 fish this year. Largerst bluegill > was 10.5 ", largest crappie was 18", > largest bass was 7 1/4 lbs, largest channnel cat was 16 lbs. > These were all on the fly rod and most were pure dumb luck because they were > caught at weird times. > > The bass was in September during my lunch hour. > > Rick > >
