Oh Jimmy Jimmy Jimmy
Wrap a size 18 hook with thread, tapered towards the point of the hook. One or two wraps of peacock herl for a thorax.
THEN tie it to the end of a cane pole. (I use about six feet of fly line and then 3 feet of tippet material.)
Dapple the fly next to cover, algae etc.
You'll get the small ones if you just "tickle" the surface with your fly.
Leave the worms alone !!!
Ed
At 07:10 PM 5/26/2004, you wrote:
Del,
If you cannot find a place that sells small bream/bluegills, you can always revert to what I call the "boyhood bream stocking method). Find a small tank, (pond) where you know there are bream and take a cane pole, line / cork/ sinker and tiny bream hook. Bait with a cricket or a glob of redworms.Walk the banks and look for round light colored spots on the bottom. This is where the bream are spawning or recently have spawned. When you find some of these places, stop and toss your bait out and sit down and watch your cork. If bream are around, it won't be long until you have plenty of litte fish for your aquarium. A 3" bream will surprise you as to how big a bait it can eat! Now for catfish, use larger hook, baited with small shad or chicken entrals and find a place with a deep hole. From there, the the technique is the same. Of course you could do it on a fly rod, but it would take lots longer to catch the little bream. Don't feel bad about fishing like this. 90% of us learned to fish this way and some still do, when nostalgia overtakes us and we want to relive a little of our youth. This is the method my uncle in Missisippi used some 57 years ago when my cousin and I caught several hundred tiny bream from one of his tanks and put them in a minnow buckets hanging in the water off his dock, while doing so. Kept them fresh and alive. When we finished we set the buckets in a radio flyer wagon and treked a half mile to my uncle's new tank and dumped all the little bream into it. Presto - two years later we went back and caught some bigger than your hand on our Heddon fly rods and bream poppers.
JIMMY D
