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  1. If it was worms, I would have thought they would be quite visible. I have been at a worm hatch where I couldn’t see worms unless the it was at night. Maldonado, you describe the fish as rushing the bait which is not how they usually eat worms. It’s usually a very gentle sip/swirl and if you are hearing big splashes it’s the tail kick as they propel back down. I would guess a very small bait fish like bay anchovy.
  2. I’ve been doing my best to join the dark side this year and do more night fishing in quest of better fish. However, I have run into a problem. I have been fishing crease flies with a rattle very slowly in a half swing half retrieve presentation that has worked very well during the day. It is still producing strikes at night but almost no hookups. I would say in my last 3 night outings I’m about 3 for27 in solid hookups to blowups. The fly is usually moving very slowly or still. One of the hookups actually came when I was ripping it. I refuse to believe that the fish are missing the fly, it’s almost like a trout that rises and then closes its mouth at the last minute.L and never actually takes the fly On a lot of the blowups, I never feel anything. Any thoughts or suggestions!? i have tried switching to subsurface patterns but I feel like I spend all my time pulling weed off the hook or changing flies or getting snagged. I am fishing in water 12”-4’ and sometimes in grass beds. So I would like to stay on top, but I would also like to actually catch some fish.
  3. The pond with the landlocked has at least 6 large fish. On 5/16, I got there at 2:30 and the worms were already going and the fish were piled up in the back NW corner. I was able to watch these large fish gently sip worms and cruise around in broad daylight. Truly an amazing experience. Of course I couldn’t get any to eat a fly. It did confirm my theory that trying to cover a rise like one would for trout fishing during a worm hatch isn’t a great idea. When the fish rose, they were cruising through, and not returning to that location, so where you just saw a fish rise is the one location you know that fish is not. It’s possible in more current they would hold on a spot, but in this location at this time, they most definitely did not.
  4. Or you can get a kit. While the kits definitely have their shortcomings, they give you much smaller quantities of a larger number of materials so you can tie a variety of pre-determined patterns that help teach you some of the skills you will want. I bought one from orvis when I first started despite recommendations from a friend not to buy a kit. I was glad I went with the kit. Do I still have lots of the materials unused? Sure, but it helped get me into a variety of patterns and skills. If you do go with a kit, make sure to choose one designed either for salt or fresh water, depending on what you plan to tie for.
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