Hi Jaquelyn
Just letting you know that the purple leach pattern that tied for me to catch crappies worked but not for crappies. Today at Bartlett I was doing some trolling using a 7 wt with the RIO 7 heavy sinking line. When the rod bent excessively I thought I was hung up, but no, I had something that wanted to stay on the bottom. After fighting it for about an hour, I finally got the biggest flathead catfish I have ever seen and the biggest fish I have ever caught on a flyrod. Could not get it into the boat - to big for my net. Did not have my cell phone with me either - no photo. Thanks for the fly. Sure could use another one
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