Fly Fishing Winter Outing - Bennett Spring 12-2014

Dan and I went to the Heart of America Fly Fishers annual winter outing December 6^th through the 8^th. Enjoyed a nice lunch on the spring branch Saturday with the club and then banquet that night. Weather really wasn’t bad at all for that time of year. We stayed up at Sand Spring Resort. We caught quite a few rainbows in the park, although maybe not as many as usual. Best flies seemed to be the Wooly, copper john, soft hackle, crackle back, egg pattern, and a few on an Adams. Twice we went out to the river at Barclay, the first time fished above the canoe takeout and the second time at the Winchester Gap area. Caught about a half dozen browns and rainbows there, which was good for us. A very nice trip overall. I haven’t really been able to fish  much this year.

More pictures at:

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Colorado Trip 10-2014

Wow, I was lucky enough to have a great vacation trip to Colorado with my 2 brothers. We went from Tulsa, through Texas and New Mexico (stopping at Los Alamos), and mainly staying in the Durango and Purgatory area. I got to ride the Durango / Silverton railroad for the first time, and was I impressed!  We also went to Mesa Verde and saw all the dwellings there. We rode bikes down the Animas River in Durango, and did a lot of sight seeing. Got to see a tremendous double rainbow, and walk some of the Colorado Trail.

For additional Pictures:

http://s1189.photobucket.com/user/flyfishkc/library/Colorado%20Brothers%20Trip%2010-2014

Stip Pit Kicking

Dan and I took a morning and tried the strip pits down south, and used out kick boats. Weather was about perfect as it had cooled off. As far as catching fish, I caught a number of medium to small blue gill, no bass, and a 21" channel cat. Dan had a little more luck with the bass with several decent sized. Nice to get away, as I haven't been able to fish much this year.

10 Moving Tips

I came across this list of 10 moving tips and thought some of you might be interested.


10 Moving Tips to Share

Arkansas Trip

Dan and Chris got to go on a trip to Arkansas last week, and this is their report.

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Chris and I took a June trip to Northern Arkansas.  With the warm weather we had quite a few options.  On the first day we did a float trip on kickboats on the Norfork tailwater.  In the morning, the hot fly was the tan scud.  The globall also provided some action.  We knew they would run water sometime that day but were surprised when they started about noon, about 2 or 3 hours early.  Shortly after the water was on I hooked a big brown on a woolie, but with all the water etc, I could only get him within a foot of the net before losing him.  We had the good fortune of running into a fellow fisherman who talked to us for quite a while about high water techniques using san juan worms.  Even though the flow was at 3000 cfs we were able to fish, mostly wading, all afternoon.  Chris was able to hook an land a memorable 19 inch brown.

The next day we canoed Crooked Creek for smallmouth and did real well.  The best fly was a rubber legged crawfish pattern that I tie.  We also caught some on woolies and crayfish pattern.  We learned that 150cfs is perfect for floating.

We ended the trip on the third day with morning fishing at the Handicap Access on Norfork.  No giants this time, but we did real well on tan scuds, globalls, and san juan worm patterns.

 

 

Friday Night Lights

Enjoyed fishing 2 private ponds this week, one around sunset. The first in south Olathe and the other in western Shawnee. Weather was nice both times, and enjoyed ourselves.

 

Lone Jack Lake

Ray and I decided to check out Lone Jack Lake Wednesday morning. I hadn't been out there for a number of years. I brought the kick boat to fish more of the shore, which worked out well. The water temperature had warmed up some, and felt good to the feet. Fishing was a little tough for the most part, but I found a couple of good pockets of blue gill, and caught around 20 or so (up to about 9 inches, and fairly fat). What a great day to be out there and hardly anyone else out there.  For a little more information about the park, click here.

Lone Jack Lake info