For example, fishing is more productive upcurrent than downcurrent, since the fish are less aware of your presence.Īnother key to success is maintaining a drag-free float when using poppers. Over time, I learned that I could greatly improve my luck on these streams by applying some of the tactics that coldwater trout anglers use. This day was the start of my conversion from the Dark Side of the Fishing Force. But others would slurp it up, and then use the current to their advantage to make dogged runs that bent my fiberglass fly rod like a noodle. Many aggressive spotted bass rose to the popper that day. Practicality was as much a factor as tradition. My grandfather and his brother had fly-fished for spotted bass in several of these Florida Parishes waters.
On our first trip, I brought along the fly tackle. From there one could walk the sandbars or wade the streambeds, or even launch a canoe. Back then, nearly every bridge offered public access. Our curiosity led us to the Geology Department library, where we probed topo maps like the NSA probes emails. Then in the fall of 1981, my fishing buddy Terry Angelich inquired about the numerous streams he’d encountered driving north and east of Baton Rouge. From the time I inherited my maternal grandfather’s fly rods as a boy until the time I was in graduate school at LSU, the rods mostly gathered dust.
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