BACKWOODS BASS

The new Wilderness Commander 120 is earning it's keep. It allowed me to get through an almost impossible back lake access. Often negotiating a tough access can pay off in handsome dividends. Check out this handsome brute! Had these big bucketmouths breaking my tippet so I had to switch to my baitcaster. Caught a lot of these fish which made the extra effort to get in with our kayaks very worthwhile.

Beadchain Bugger Scores at Dusk

After fishing the local reservoir in the afternoon from my yak where one lone crappie avoided the "skunk", I decided to drop in at the trout club on the way home. I was fishing the evening rise from shore with my intermediate fly line. On my last cast before calling it a day this magnificent speckled trout was hooked on a wooly bugger with big beadchain eyes. The beauty of it is that the club does not stock brook trout they raise and stock only rainbow trout. This speckle is a wild fish that has been in the system for a while. They must be naturally reproducing in there or they somehow get in from one of the creeks flowing in or out. Water is getting warm quickly. Time to get out for some river smallmouth.