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Guided Fly Fishing in West Georgia FLINT RIVER SHOAL BASS - CHATTAHOOCHEE STRIPERS CALLAWAY GARDENS BASS & BREAM - GAR & CARP
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Latest Fishing Report
January 27 - `Got a little busman's holiday with my buddy Paul. West Point Dam was blowing water at the tune of almost 20,000 cfs, so we hit the lower river to see if all the current had the hybrids and stripers excited. It did and they were...
January 6 - Fished the lower Chattahoochee today with David P. David and I have have been fishing together for many years now and it's always a treat. I first met David years ago before he moved to GA for a job at Emory - a friend arranged a float trip on the Flint for us. I think it helped ease the transition from Colorado. Since then,, David's become a serious fan of our warm-water fish as he's fished the Hooch, the Flint and Callaway numerous times with me since that first day. Today was another good one - not a huge number but including this fat 14-lb striper...
December - Trout fishing at Callaway continues to be very good. After Christmas, I began to find a few stripers on the Chattahoochee. Even though I've been fishing these guys for over 20 years, it's difficult to recall just how hard they hit (and pull) - it's nice to get reacquainted.
November - I spent most of the month on the road, starting with the WNC Fly Fishing Expo in Asheville, then across NC and down the coast through SC (where I managed to slip in a little redfishing). My few in-town days were spent chasing trout at Callaway - as usual, the fish are good ones and very hot.
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Here's a striper from 1/27 with a mouthful of flashtail whistler. I tie these on a Gamakatsu 60 degree jig hook - best striper fly there is on my river. Mask sure you use the flashtail version.
The May/June 2010 edition of American Angler magazine features an article on the shoal bass - great stuff from Zach Matthews. Included in the article (pg. 36) are tying directions for my latest version of the Stealth Bomber (with the new template for cutting the foam for this fly shown in actual size).
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 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 cool little sketch above of the Stealth Bomber was done by Paul Puckett, and originally used in David Cannon's book, Fly Fishing Georgia. Paul does some great stuff - my favorites are the original catch-and-release prints done on local topo maps.
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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.
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