September Event

[On The Fly!]

September 28th. We can hit Pleasant for stripers if you are willing to chum a little! We can get tubes/toons to productive waters using electronics and if we all fish and chum the same area the results could be fantastic. Or are we ready to get out of Dodge and avoid the heat? This is your club and your input guides us to pick locations that will assure good participation and fun for all.

Don :)

[tightlines57]

Does anyone know how long the striper boils will be active at Pleasant? If it only goes through September then I say Pleasant in September for some major striper action.

[3X]

The boils are usually active just before first light till around 0700 or so latley.
It's a blast if we can get into them!

So far this year the weather has been off a bit so its tough to predict how long they'll be active. If we can get out there within the next few weeks it should still be good. Plus as things cool down more the fish will be more active in general.

[jimeng]

I would like to participate but, do not have a boat, any room available on someone else's for a newbie. Sounds like a good reason to pickup a Sage bass rod and a quality reel at AZ Flyfishing. :):)

[3X]

I would like to participate but, do not have a boat, any room available on someone else's for a newbie. Sounds like a good reason to pickup a Sage bass rod and a quality reel at AZ Flyfishing. :):)

You Bet! We'll get a tally of possible boaters and then work on pairing up.

The new Fly rod sounds like a plan too. I'm making a deal with myself that if I can land a 4 lb LM or bigger my next stop will be AZ flyfishing for a new 7 WT. :D

[mjl]

September 28th. We can hit Pleasant for stripers if you are willing to chum a little! We can get tubes/toons to productive waters using electronics and if we all fish and chum the same area the results could be fantastic. Or are we ready to get out of Dodge and avoid the heat? This is your club and your input guides us to pick locations that will assure good participation and fun for all.


Holy crap. Really? Why can't you hit Pleasant and FLY FISH and catch a bunch of stripers? Been there and done that a million times. White bass too.

I'm not trying to bust balls, but bait fishing is not fly fishing. I thought this club was a fly fishing bass club. Seriously, stripers on Pleasant are really not that tough. Chum is not needed, nor is it fly fishing.

Why the rant? I would hate for a bunch of new bass-on-the-fly guys to think you need to bait fish with a nasty chum slick to catch bass. That's just silly. Screw spending your money in a bait shop. Buy or tie flies instead.

Hell, there are probably 6 months a year where all you need is a type III line and a fist full of DHM, clousers, or simi seal leeches to catch bass. When they're boiling, just toss out a floating line with a popper, crease fly, clouser, or damn near any streamer you can think of and you'll wreck fish. If you can't get to the boil, you'll still catch fish under the surface. Not convinced? Give it a try. Better yet, go to a place like Castle Cove any afternoon/evening in March - May and it is entirely possibly to catch 30-60 fish in a 2-4 hour outing... in a float tube, without electronics, and without bait and chum. The same goes for autumn when the fish get back toward the surface again. Hell, you can pick up fish on the fly in the dead of the winter by working the coves and fingers... even if you don't know your head from your @ss, which is how I started out on Pleasant in December a handful of years ago.

If you want to bait fish, fine... go bait fishing. If you want to spin fish, fine... go spin fishing. But if you want to fly fish... then go fly fishing. Don't chum with bait. Take some different rods, lines, and flies; try different techniques; learn some stuff from others; and do it the fly fishing way. Who would go up to the San Juan or Lees Ferry or even a small stream on the Rim and chum trout with powerbait or corn or earthworms? Not many (or any) I'm guessing. Most would switch flies and try and figure out what the trout are willing to eat. So, how is bass fishing on the fly any different?

Hell, it ain't my club and it ain't my state, so maybe I'll just shut my mouth and be on my way, but seriously... GO FLY FISHING, NOT BAIT FISHING! You'll have more fun and those fish will be a lot more rewarding and easier to catch the next time.

[Flats Man]

The positive is that no chum is needed right now. Just find the boils and hang on... Point taken Lauer! Hope you are well amigo!