A First

[Nicodemus]

My first speckled perch on a flyrod. Hit a rubber legged dragon tied by yours truly.

 

[HermanMerman]

Release into the grease!

 

[JonathanG2013]

My first speckled perch on a flyrod. Hit a rubber legged dragon tied by yours truly.



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Great job Nic. Looks like a good size also. Do you eat them also?

 

[Nicodemus]

Great job Nic. Looks like a good size also. Do you eat them also?

Yessir, I eat a lot of fish. I'd rather have a platter of fried fish than just about anything.

 

[BriarPatch99]

I have caught several down in an old dead lake off the Satilla River ... I believe it was popping bugs though..

 

[Dr. Strangelove]

Nice catch and good looking fly! I was just talking about breaking out the vise again, it's been a long time.

I'm going down to Blackshear in a month or so, I plan to take my flyrod.

 

[Railroader]

That's a purty speck! I imagine he was fun on the fly rod!

 

[NCHillbilly]

Niceun! I've only caught one on a fly rod. I caught it on a nymph in a trout stream near here that flows into a warm, shallow lake about a mile below where I caught it. Every year, I plan to tie up some weighted black/chartreuse Woolly Buggers and target them with a fly rod when they come up shallow to spawn in Clark's Hill, but every year, I never get around to it.

 

[turkeykirk]

My first speckled perch on a flyrod. Hit a rubber legged dragon tied by yours truly.



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That fly looks like it would imitate a cicada really well!

 

[JonathanG2013]

Yessir, I eat a lot of fish. I'd rather have a platter of fried fish than just about anything.

I was fishing in lake Allatoona this weekend. An older gentleman caught Crappie and Yellow Perch. First time seeing Yellow Perch. He said those were good eating also.

 

[Ruger#3]

I was fishing in lake Allatoona this weekend. An older gentleman caught Crappie and Yellow Perch. First time seeing Yellow Perch. He said those were good eating also.

Yellow perch is one of the best eating pan fish there is. Caught them by the dozens in Lake Eire.

That’s nice speck Nic, and on your own bug.

 

[NCHillbilly]

I was fishing in lake Allatoona this weekend. An older gentleman caught Crappie and Yellow Perch. First time seeing Yellow Perch. He said those were good eating also.

I would rate filleting-sized yellow perch the third-best American freshwater fish, right after walleye and sauger. And this is coming from a guy who dearly loves crappie, catfish, bream, trout, and such.

 

[Paymaster]

That's great , Nic!!

 

[Browning Slayer]

Nice!

 

[Dustin Pate]

Very nice! I was bass fishing last year, around this time, and caught a dozen nice crappie on a pop'r off a single blowdown.

 

[Nicodemus]

Nice catch and good looking fly! I was just talking about breaking out the vise again, it's been a long time.

I'm going down to Blackshear in a month or so, I plan to take my flyrod.

Blackshear is on fire right now. Everything is biting.