Today my fising buddy Ron Foreman and I went fishing on the East Fork of the Calcasieu River (Saturday). We got there and were fishing by 7:15 am. We had one two hits between that time and 11:00 am (presumably one bream and a small needlefish. Neither ended up being hooked. As a last resort I tied on a ver small size 10 spoon fly (originally tied for small ladyfish). I ended up catcing two juvenile bass (larger was 9") and a good sized bluegill in the last hour we fished. Ron tied on a size 6 spoon fly and got 3 hits...but he was striking too soon. He kept pulling the fly out of the fish's mouth. One of the fish jumped...a 12" bass. Another hit near the boat, and I saw the fish, about another 9"er. So the report from the east fork are much more encoraging than those from Sam Houston Jones park on the west fork. I was surprised that the effective fly ended up being a sppon fly...traditionally a salt water fly.
Mark Delaney
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"So much water, so little time!"
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