I Was Sealed In A River Bend

I visited Lake Murchison around noon on Saturday. I used the jonboat to visit some areas of structure I identified on a previous trip, and allowed the wind to drift me about a half mile down the western shore. I was mainly using my 8 wt with a #4 white boogle bug popper, with a small size 8 bendback minnow as the dropper.






One of the bigger bass of the day




As before the alligators were out in force...

obviously not a fan of the Boogle Bug

As the afternoon wore on I switched to my 6wt with a full sinking line and visited a few humps and areas of submurged timber. The black crappie were all holding about 11 feet down, a few feet above them I got into some nice blue gills.



I used various small wooly buggers, white, brown and chartreuse being the most effective...

Biggest Bluegill of the day


New breathable Tailwaters hat (thanks Travis!) and new digital camo Buff...also a nice crappie

After letting the fly sink for about 30 seconds and slowly raising the rod, I hooked up with a few nice red ears in the deeper part of the lake...


Say AHHHHH