Working hard, Or hardly working?

[Joshy25]

J. Smith called me this morning around 9am wondering if I would like to go fishing with the long sticks. I said sure, so we met at his place as usual.

We decided to fish one of my new spots I found. Im glad we did. We had an awesome day with several doubles and some great memories. Thanks Josh!

Here is J. Smith's first catfish on a fly rod.. Funny because the night before, I broke off my bunny sculpin on this same cat.

click link for video.

http://s26.photobucket.com/albums/c149/kellyb1407/?action=view&current=biltmore014.flv

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c149/kellyb1407/biltmore015.jpg

My recovered bunny sculpin (from the fly swap)
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c149/kellyb1407/biltmore018.jpg

[coster]

Nice work. I need to get out bad!

[Bigfishjr.]

Those Local ponds can be alot of fun. Nice cat. If ben gets the pic up ill show you a cat i cuaght at the ASU RP on a fly.

[jrdorvis]

got to love the biltmore.just watch out for the guard she is a bigfoot herself.

[Joshy25]

Continued...

J. Smith then landed this nice bass.. on a brown wooly booger.

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c149/kellyb1407/biltmore022.jpg

He then hooked into another REALLY nice bass.. this was probably the biggest bass of the day.

http://s26.photobucket.com/albums/c149/kellyb1407/?action=view&current=biltmore024.flv

Jimmy H. Would be proud. :D
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c149/kellyb1407/biltmore026.jpg

He then landed this nice bass with a wierd lower jaw.. almost reminded me of a big brown trout.

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c149/kellyb1407/biltmore029.jpg

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c149/kellyb1407/biltmore027.jpg

[Joshy25]

Continued...

Josh then cought another catfish.. a bit smaller than the first. He then managed to get this nice Tilapia.. Great colors!!!

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c149/kellyb1407/biltmore036.jpg

J. Smith is an awesome fisherman.. I always learn something new everytime we go fish together.. But dont let him fool you.. I can catch a few dinks too! lol...

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c149/kellyb1407/biltmore046.jpg

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c149/kellyb1407/biltmore049.jpg

[Bigfishjr.]

Thats a tilipia?
Wow.

Like the videos. Keep them coming

[JMC]

That Tilapia looks something like a South American Chiclad.

[Josho]

That is unlike any Tilapia I have ever seen before...

http://www.fishfarming.com/images/farm-raised%20tilapia.jpg

Nice work boyz.

Josh

[Flats Man]

I grew up fishing those lakes with a long rod. There is one off hole #2 that has some monster bass... Believe it or not, I actually caught smallmouth in the lake you guys fished about 8 years ago... Great fish and nice carp. Those things mud around like tailing bonefish.

[CHIEF]

The water looks like 100 degrees, cool fish....

CHIEF

[sanjuanshuffle]

good to see that the biltmore pond is coming back; it was almost drained a few years ago. i used to fish those almost everyday. one night i was casting a popper and hooked a bat on my forward cast... pretty nasty. been chased off the lake at 32nd st. though. like flats man said, great mudding carp there this time of year.

[Buddy Sanders]

Okay guys,

What I REALLY want to know is how you get permission to fish those ponds?

I can't see another fishermen ANYWHERE in those pictures.

Buddy

[Flats Man]

Buddy,

Permission is unattainable. After all of the golfers have played through is the best time to go. As far as I know, it is still trespassing to fish there and I have been chased off dozens of times. And who said bass fishing didn't require stealth mode;)

[young-flyfisher]

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s126/tuffguy350z/P4292781.jpg http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s126/tuffguy350z/P4292785.jpg bigfishjrs nasty cat from the rp.

[Mr.Smith]

Man that video clip makes it look like it was a short fight. That was actually the third of a series of short videos he filmed.

There are a couple varieties of tilapia but like sunfish/bluegills I generically call them all tilapia without differentiation.

Only the ones on the golf course are posted. No laws were broken in the catching of these fish.

[joe]

Ahhh, the AZ Tarpon

"D"

[kount_zer0]

What did you use to catch the carp...uh i mean freshwater bonefish?

I walked around the ASU RP ponds this afternoon and got skunked, but I saw many nice carp tailing and sipping off the top.

[Mr.Smith]

I used a bread fly that I made up. I tied it on a #4 dropshot hook, yellow thread, yellow rabbit sheen dubbing start dubbing from the front of the hook to the back. Tie an overhand knot and then dub white simiseal forward whip finish and tease out the simiseal. It works best when they are feeding on the bottom. Drop the fly ahead of their path an wait, often they will pick it up. Otherwise chum with bread and cast into the feeding fish with the white simi fly.

[kount_zer0]

Thanks! I'll get some white Simiseal today and give it a shot!