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April 12 - Fished with Bill T. today for skipjack, and we had some fun. Bill was one of my first guide customers back over 15 years ago, and thankfully he keeps coming back. You'll find the archives full of Bill photos, and we've spent many hours laughing over the water with bream and bass banging topwater flies. We returned to Bill's hometown today to expand his fish list to include the skipjack - here's the way to do a homecoming...

April 10 - Fished the Flint today with Doug and his son Russ. Russ had never fished the Flint but he caught on pretty quickly, landing numerous shoalies plus some feisty red-breasts.

April 9 - Fished the Hooch at Columbus today with Scott & Russ. The boys had some fun with those big skipjack.

April 6 - Fished the Hooch at Columbus this morn. On the water at 6 am and found white bass busting on top but no stripers.

Once the sun got up, the skipjack turned on. Is this ever fun - little miniature tarpon that smack the fly , then pull, run and jump like crazy. These are  big skips too - just right for a 3 wt or 4 wt.

April 2 - Fished a new lake with Paul this morn and had a barrel of fun. Bluegill galore, bass busting topwater bugs, and a couple of grass carp for good measure. Mine was bigger but Paul busted the leader in landing it - so here's a photo of his.....

March 31 - `Fished the Hooch at Columbus with long-time customers and pals David and Rex. Weather forecast was iffy, but these guys are anglers so we weren't deterred. Since the river here is lit by the Riverwalk streetlights, we started before well daylight. Usually there's a good striper bite before the sun hits the water. Today was no exception, and Rex was bowed up hard before the sun even started to show. He stuck  two in this run.

Then it started to rain, some drizzle and some pouring, and then it was David's turn. It

By noon, we were pretty much drowned rats and the rain still fell. We had expected a good skipjack bite (I have been catching them good over the last couple of weeks). But the skippies like sunshine and they were slow and scattered so we called it a day since we had put pounds of striped fish in the boat.

March 27 - `Couldn't take the telephone anymore, so I slipped out to the Flint this afternoon about four o'clock. It was my first trip on the Flint this spring and it was everything you could hope. The water levels were perfect, and the shoal bass busted the topwater. 

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        It's Shoal Bass time!

It's prime time for the shoal bass in the shallow, rocky shoals of the Flint River.

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It's time to start throwing the Stealth Bomber again too.

There's a lot of tying and fishing info here, plus information on how to order the cutter set from River Road Creations.

Come Meet The Legend

Lefty Kreh will be in both Charleston and Pawley's Island, South Carolina this summer. Each visit will be for two days , with one day at a local tackle shop and the other a private day of coaching for a limited number of anglers.

Pawley's Island Outdoors -  May 5 & 6

Charleston Angler - June 1 & 2

Here's a chance to meet the legend or even spend the day with him, getting his personal coaching on casting, knots, and much more. The private day at Pawley's is booked up, but limited opening are available in Charleston.

Best fishing song ever...

Well OK, not really a fishing song, but a very apt description of a feeling known all too well by the  angler. If you think a tale of epic loss, hope and possible redemption is way too serious to mix with fishing, it's likely you don't really understand this sport and are certainly on the wrong website.

A Knotty Issue - Fly anglers often fixate on equipment, taking extreme care to select the perfect set-up and spending outrageous amounts of money to obtain it. Too often however, the most important part of the tackle receives no concern. The critical connection to the fish is within the knots that join the line system between the fly and the angler, and if it fails then all the fancy equipment is a moot point.

Tom McGuane sums it up perfectly - "...the array of arcane knots...the leader...is attached to the fly...and to choose (a knot) is to make a moral choice. You are made to understand that it would not be impossible to fight about it or, at the very least, to quibble darkly." 

The worse part is that inferior knots often work just fine on the majority of fish - it's only when the big one is hooked that the knot lets you down....MORE

Fly Fishing Georgia by David Cannon is the new guidebook to the area's top fishing spots, from trout to bass to saltwater.

Included is the Flint River and the shoal bass, a fishery that is unique to Georgia.

The book is available through Amazon or at your local fly shop.

The Pencil Sharpener Hole

This spot on the Flint has always reminded me of a passage from Trout Fishing in America:

"I  like to think of that little hole as a pencil sharpener. I put my reflexes in and they came back out with a good point on them. Over a period of a couple of years, I must have caught fifty ... out of that hole...." - Richard Brautigan

"The Most

Under-Appreciated

 Fly Cast"

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While other fancy casts get the press, it's this red-headed stepchild that's easiest to throw. and it catches fish when others won't.