Must say

Where are all the sweet pictures folks ? Or am I just a self glorified picture freak ?
You guys been fishing the river I have not in a month (I don't count last time as fishing)..
I have see Chrome SPLASHED all over the other places , what gives here ?

Well if some don't show up soon believe me when I get back Oct 29th I'll stink the place up..

DB this is your chance..lol..

I don't have one of them fancy phones tuna or i would try to take some this week. I too like to see the pics though. lets me know what i'm missing. lol

CP

ORIGINAL: hot tuna

DB this is your chance..lol..

5,4,3,2,1

pics date stamped Oct 2011 would be a bonus...

Here's a pizz poor excuse for fish, but it's the best I can do until the 27th.  I was going to work today, but  I needed a break, so I did some paperwork and we took the yak out. We had fun, though the fishing was pretty tough- they were  dead tight to structure. Skip cast into the bushes or get squat. At least I got some casting practice. I'm counting the days.
 
Charlie

charlie; they look like fish to me looks like you enjoyed your sunday; thanks for sharing...

I was going to mention the wind.
20-30 with gusts makes it difficult ( at least for me).
Much like steelheading in general,once you have them figured out they change.
Constant wind you can change your casting plain and sidearm your cast "under" the wind, but just then it drops or gusts and all the preplanning is useless.
Finally time the wind right, make the perfect cast set up and just as the swing comes to the sweet spot a gust comes along and picks the lifting the line and drags the fly like a bad mend.
Tough couple of days even if the fish are moving.
Might not affect it so much if you step up close and tight line.`

ORIGINAL: draketrutta

nice pond pics..

I'm afraid the dayz of the scum frogs hopped along the lily pads are over.

Have a pond like that near my house - gotta try to get out for some bluegills.

Slipfloat rig, small jigs, tipped with waxies = my default plan of attack.

I like slipfloats because they can cast quite far - for use shoreline chuckers.

Drake; have ever used those slip floats on deep water in Ontario tribal??? I've seen guys clean house with them...yet to try it myself...

Drake, guys down south use them for a technique called "float and fly"; which is a small jig suspended under those slip bobbers. It's a deadly technique for trophy smallmouth suspended on dropoffs in the winter months.
 
Charlie

HT - interesting comment about the loop knot - I never tried it for slip bobber purposes.

for sake of conversation - one downside I see is if you cannot slide a loopknot up/down your mono mainline for quick depth adjustments. I know you can retie, but big fingers & cold temps could make that a beotch for me..

Bobber stops don't they get fouled up in the rod guides or cause problems when they are spooled onto the reel - we all know what loops do to a spinning reel.

In a pinch I have used waxed dental floss to make a very tight knot on the mono if I run out of the pre-tied nail knot thingys that come with the bobbers. It holds up pretty well.

Dental floss is also good for marking depth on ice fishing rigs - sure beats those darn buttons.

p.s. - the tiny little bead that sits atop the float and slides up the line actually does the stopping once it reaches the bobberstop knot. Not sure is you use a bead.