Pat Caught a Fish

Nice bass caught on a plastic worm.  Pat could have dragged a shoe lace and caught fish this day!

Pat caught a fish!  Actually he caught a bunch of fish.  We had a great day on a little farm pond not too far outside Tulsa.   The pond that we fished is one of my favorite ponds for a variety of reasons.  The first reason is the place is loaded with dumb fish.  Yesterday, I can’t tell you how many times I made poor casts that came crashing down on the water and still a fish would come up and take the fly.  A place like this can make the most novice of fishers seem like a pro.  The second reason I love this pond is the fact that it is hard to fish without a small boat.  It has steep banks with thick trees and shrubs surrounding it.  There are two little cuts or coves in the pond, that when you are in them, it seems like you are back in some far off swamp.  Pat and I fish this pond out of my canoe, which adds to the sense of adventure. 

Nonstop action on twitchy flies.

As far as fishing partners go, Pat and I have a pretty good relationship.  He doesn’t fling feathers, which is a good thing because I am not sure both of us whipping fly rods around in a canoe at the same time would work too well.  The other thing that makes Pat a good fishing partner is that he doesn’t whine too much about me standing up in the canoe while I fish and zing flies past his ear.  I think I've only hit him once. 

On this trip Pat caught the most and the biggest fish of the day.  I mostly fished little surface twitchy flies and had plenty of action catching small bream and bass.  I figured I would give Pat a chance to catch one as big as the bass I caught out of the pond some time back.

I caught this bass in the pond a little over a year ago on a popper.  The fish was next to a sheer rock wall over 8ft of water.
Glory Days. I think this is my best bass to date.