It sounds like you live in a warm-water paradise. I was wondering what kind of hooks you use when fishing for bass and musky? What are your favorite patterns? How do you gear up for Musky? And why do you choose to fly fish when most of the word uses spinning and bait casting gear? This is an area of fly fishing I would like to branch into.
Thanks, Tom In a message dated 3/17/02 3:45:18 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >I am wondering way is that Largemouth bass fisherman use hooks that are >seeming more suited to saltwater fishing. I am just wondering because >I get a lot of top water action here for all three basses Bucket, bugle, >& small mouth. Plus lots of pike & musky action pike to 20 lbs & musky >over 30lbs. It is a bout a half & half deal. My 8 or 9 wt when I go after >the brutes. 4 to 6 wt on the others. My Question Is why are such heavy >hooks used on the ole bucketmouth? I am fishing on Lake St Clair which >has a very large population of all the fish mentioned. Even with the extre mely >heavy fishing pressure, most of the fish die out ever seeing a fishers >hook! I have talked to the fishery biologist on several occasions. So >if you musky freaks are sitting down. I will tell you they test netted >3 musky over 70 pounds! the largest being just under 75. So if you are >looking to hook up with some fine fishing, a shot at world record. Give >this lake a try! > >Bob Haering >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> ><HEAD> ><META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> ><META content="MSHTML 6.00.2713.1100" name=GENERATOR> ><STYLE></STYLE> ></HEAD> > ><DIV>I am wondering way is that Largemouth bass >fisherman use hooks that are seeming more suited to saltwater fishing. >I >am just wondering because I get a lot of top water action here for all >three >basses Bucket, bugle, & small mouth. Plus lots of pike & >musky >action pike to 20 lbs & musky over 30lbs. It is a bout a half >& >half deal. My 8 or 9 wt when I go after the brutes. 4 to 6 >wt on the >others. My Question Is why are such heavy hooks used on the ole >bucketmouth? I am fishing on Lake St Clair which has a very large > >population of all the fish mentioned. Even with the extremely heavy > >fishing pressure, most of the fish die out ever seeing a fishers hook! >I >have talked to the fishery biologist on several occasions. So if >you musky >freaks are sitting down. I will tell you they test netted 3 >musky >over 70 pounds! the largest being just under 75. So if you are looking >to >hook up with some fine fishing, a shot at world record. Give this >lake a >try!</DIV> >
