My wife and I went up to our family lake house on Canandaigua Lake in NY this past week and got to do a lot of fly fishing. Caught everything I could including rock bass, perch, sunfish, and my first smallmouth OTF!
The bass boat that we have up there was out of commission so I had to fish from the docks and when I got tired of that I took the fly rod out on the jet ski and had a little luck.
The smallmouth was the highlight for me because they put up a great fight. It was pretty tricky landing her because I was standing on a dock that’s about 4 feet above the water line but my bro-in-law ran and grabbed the net to wrap up the fight.
I probably caught around 30-40 rock bass and a handful of perch and sunfish and the one smallmouth. This report probably won’t come into play for most of ya’ll but pretty much the patterns of choice were black or brown wooly buggers and copperheads. I experimented with every fly I had from topwater poppers to chartreusse and olive clousers but they didn’t work near as well. Took the 8 and 6 weight with me and the rock bass aren’t much of a f
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