#wooly buggers

[thenamesblurrito]

finished this and then forgot to post it whoops!

so everybody knows scraplets are harmless little omnivorous pests, hungry buggers but only likely to chew on you if they're absolutely starving. comparable to rats, they're adaptable, decently intelligent, and even friendly if you're careful. Whirl hides steel woolies under his bunk to feed a growing scraplet colony he affectionately refers to as his children. but, much like everything else in SNAP, all it takes is a little supernatural interference to turn docility into danger...

in s1e10- An All-Consuming Hunger! An Upgrade to Friendship, something new stalks the streets: mecannibals. bigger, hungrier, and meaner than regular scraplets, they don't seem interested in eating trash so much as eating living metal. skittering hordes of them swarm Iacon, treating people like prey, and worst of all they seem to be able to socialize with other scraplets and infect them with their hunger, spreading the mecannibal menace. the heroes drive them off by the end of the episode, but that isn't the last we see of them

by s1e13- All My Friends Are Food! An Upgrade to Cannibals, the undercity of Iacon feels... wrong. junkers have been going missing, more than usual, and even Enforcers are noticing shapes skittering in the shadows. an uptick of missing persons cases reaches its crescendo with the reveal of Stinger, a sapient, self-contained swarm of mecannibals, a rat king ready to build an underground empire of gnawed struts and spilt energon. Stinger's organized army is much harder for the heroes to combat this time. a lot of ordinary folk are forced to fight back themselves, or flee for their lives like bitty Bumblebee. even when they do succeed, mecannibal bites leave lifelong scars. it takes desperate coordination and teamwork to bring Stinger down and end the reign of hunger, but hunting down every last feral mecannibal is the work of months

the stragglers keep popping up every so often. they make nice snacks for Gatoraider, and prove to be yet another threat for junkers just trying to survive. it's not until s2e08- See Things My Way! An Upgrade to Triptych that the last of them are finally flushed out of hiding in one final swarm, pouring into the halls of the JAAT itself

[rainsofautumn]

A Little Orange Bugger, sz 12

This is a creation of my own, a variation on a wooly bugger to represent large clusters of daphnia that live in some of the lakes near me.

[justfishing436]

Black Wooly Bugger Crappie Jig

[maddy-hatter-97]

So I'm a little obsessed with this game.

Feel sorry for both these little buggers.

I feel like they could be genuine friends if Amanda would treat him better. But since she seems to fear the monster, which has wool growing over her eyes when it transforms her, I suspect Wooly kind of triggers some fear without him meaning to.

[ghoul-wizard]

Every word of this is more absurd than the last word

Deeply unserious hobby

[killdozer-chimp]

Top 1 October caddies

Middle 2 copper Johns aka stonefly nymphs

Bottom 1 black wooly bugger

All hand tied by me

[panfishonthefly]

Marabou Blood Quills

Strung blood quill marabou is the preferred type of marabou for tying streamers.  These Marabou Blood Quills have a thinner stems and longer feathers than select or wooly bugger marabou, making it the perfect choice for tails and wings.  These feathers are also the best choice for when you want to palmer your feathers.  Each pack contains 1/4 ounce of feathers.

[grandtoursports]

Paddle Fishing crucial Florida's Spring Creeks

Geology blessed critical Florida with a number of spring creeks, together with the Wekiva River (simply mins far from Orlando), and the Salt Springs Run, the Alexander SUP Paddel kaufen, and the Juniper Springs Run, all in the Ocala countrywide woodland. All of those creeks offer delightful float fishing with the aid of canoe or kayak on beautiful, crystal clean waters for bream and largemouths, in ecologically rich environments.

each stream is precise, but they share many bodily characteristics. The rivers every begin as water wells up out of a hollow inside the ground, frequently a primary magnitude spring. This water is very clear, with a steady year spherical temperature of 72 ranges Fahrenheit. these spring runs assist a lush boom of plant life together with water lilies, bulrushes, greenback weed, cattails, pickerelweed, arrowhead, eelgrass, and different flora.

these kind of plant life offer a large, solid food base for a extensive form of animals. As you flow you'll be distracted out of your fishing by an expansion of birds along with ospreys, turkeys, limpkins, herons, ibis, and egrets. Otters, alligators, turtles, and other animals are frequently visible, too. massive numbers of minnows frolic within the shallows, and similarly massive numbers of aquatic bugs, crayfish, and different fish forage locate refuge in the vegetation.

you may assume there to be big numbers of bass and bream to which you could forged. you will be proper. no longer best do those creeks hold respectable fish populations of their own, however fish also come into these streams from the St. Johns River to spawn, increasing fish populations on a seasonal basis. Striped bass additionally enter a number of those creeks, wintering in a few and summering in others.

You need a canoe or kayak to fish these streams. Wading is possible simplest on sand bars or wherein hard, white sand backside exists, for instance in a number of the meadow sections of the Rock Springs Run. In maximum different locations thick deposits of sediment carpet the bottom, making wading hard at first-class. Even those wadable sections are reachable only through paddle craft.

What tackle you need depends on what type of fish you favor to capture. Fly fishers will need a three- or four-weight outfit for panfish, or a seven-weight for bigmouths. Floating strains are favored.

A wide form of flies can be used to take each bass and bream, and the most effective actual distinction among the flies used for these species is the scale of the hooks they are on. Fly fishers will need flies on length 6 or eight hooks for bream, and on size 1, 1/0 or even larger for bass. The bass frequently take the smaller baits used for bream, and by the use of big baits you leave out out on quite a few the a laugh you would have catching the smaller fish.

I select the use of floating flies but you ought to carry some subsurface styles for days when fishing is gradual. Poppers, sliders, sponge rubber spiders, and Muddler minnows make up an amazing, easy surface fly selection for bream. Rubber hackle on the spiders and poppers may be very critical. if you tie your personal flies placed weedguards on some of them to assist reduce hang-ups. deliver more flies because you may lose a few to the flora. every now and then a large fish will burrow into lily pads and destroy you off, too.

For subsurface flies a few small Clouser minnows, wooly buggers, sinking rubber spiders, and buggy searching nymph patterns like those used for trout will all be taken eagerly via hungry bream. once more, something to deter weeds will show helpful, and extras will be needed to replace the inevitable losses.

A massive choice of subsurface bass flies is not wanted. more than one weighted crayfish imitations, a couple of streamers, and some weighted eelworm styles make up a small however powerful selection. All of those flies need weedguards. they may be worked in and round aquatic plants and fallen bushes.

Spin fishers are first-rate served with an ultralight outfit for bream, and a ten pound outfit for bass. Spin fishers concentrated on bream will want lures like micro-plugs, road runners, beetle spins, crappie jigs, and different similar small fare. For bass, jerk baits and plastic worms paintings properly and may be labored thru the thickest plants. A popper or other surface plug may additionally are available in reachable.

no matter what kind of address you choose, carry plenty of extra baits. you will lose some in the vegetation.

while you will on occasion get big fish, the bass in those streams tend to run small. there is sincerely no want to use heavy address and huge baits unless you certainly are interested by simplest large bass. those large fish will take your little bream baits often enough to hold you inquisitive about the fishing. The simplest trouble with hooking a nice fish on light address is pulling the huge guy out of the weeds with a little rod after the hookup.

As you float down these rivers the move's individual changes. you may skip through open, meadow-like stretches with shallow water and thick growths of aquatic vegetation. Jungle-like stretches with the circulate flowing through close to-tunnels of bushes and striking vines follow. The water here is deep and dark. I just paddle through these jungly locations. The streams right here are slender and overgrown, making casting hard. I see few fish in these locations besides. Why waste time fishing barren water?

The places to fish are the sunlit shallows. The fish thrive inside the lush boom, finding food effortlessly. work the edges and wallet inside the plants as quality as you could, paying particular attention to snags and blowdowns alongside the bank. Overhanging trees or cut banks frequently hold the largest fish.

I choose floor baits truely because the visuals they provide make fishing greater a laugh. these are solid as close as possible to edges of any type, modern-day seams, drop-offs, docks, fallen bushes, or other structure and allowed to flow freely with a minimum of "retrieve". some experimentation is needed right here although. a few days the fish need greater motion of their lures than different days.

you'll find mainly that casting accuracy is a good deal more important than distance right here. Fifty foot casts are as lots as you normally want, and most are shorter than this. inside the clear water the fish can see properly. maintain your motion to a minimal.

an excellent sidearm forged that may pass a bait below overhanging flora may be very powerful. The more right water you cowl the better are the odds of having a strike.

You need not cast blindly all of the time. while the fish are feeding actively you will hear them breaking the floor, and see them jumping after dragonflies and other bugs. I often stand in my canoe so i can see better. Sightfishing for bass is uncommon, however it may be finished in those creeks. wear earth tones or even a terrific camo pattern to keep away from spooking the fish in case you choose to use this approach.

you can often see each bass and bream beds within the stream. locating a set of loads of energetic bream beds packed right into a small vicinity of circulation is a subtle clue that fishing may be rapid and furious for some time. Anchor a comfortable casting distance away and paintings your bait along periphery the beds at the beginning, Premium SUP Board farther into the mass as fish on the outer beds get caught. that is bream fishing at its finest, aggressive fish that hit on almost each forged.

A subtly colored paint activity at the canoe is a superb idea. 4 folks floated the Alexander Springs Run recently in two canoes. Mine is a drab mild inexperienced, the alternative one became vibrant crimson. We caught fish after fish, they stuck not anything. There might also were other factors at work here, but it is an amazing idea to be as discreet as feasible with each your apparel and your watercraft.

attempt fishing one of imperative Florida's spring creeks. you will love the herbal splendor of those streams, and could find catching forty or fifty fish in a day a welcome novelty.

[megadavestewart]

WFS 371 - Urban Carp on the Fly with Kris Bare - AZ Fly Shop, Carp Rally, Fly Tying

Show Notes: https://wetflyswing.com/371

Presented By: Togens Fly Shop, Angler's Coffee, FishHound Expeditions, Bearvault

Sponsors: https://wetflyswing.com/sponsors

Kris Bare from AZ Fly Shop takes us into Arizona to discover how he catches massive carp on the fly in the city. Kris breaks down the rod and line setup for carp, the best time to fish them, and the best flies and techniques to increase your catch rate. Carp are normally underrated species but today, Kris tells us why they're actually great for sport fishing.

We also find out how they raised around $30,000 for local charities like the Homeless ID Project and what they have going at AZ Fly Shop - the only fly shop in Phoenix.

Carp on the Fly Show Notes with Kris Bare

06:00 - AZ Fly Shop has only been open for about a year and a half. He connected with the owner from a Facebook group and Kris was eventually offered to manage the shop.

10:10 - They have grass carp and common carp. Kris mostly fish for common carp.

11:30 - Salt River Project is a power company in Arizona. They use grass carp as pool cleaners for the canals.

14:15 - For rods, Kris uses Scott Sector saltwater style 6 wt. For lines, he uses Scientific Anglers smooth line.

15:30 - There's no standard line for carp fishing but if any company plans on creating one, Kris describes what it should be. "Somewhere between the trout line and infinity line. And it should have a tropical coating or make it as hard of a coating as it can be".

18:30 - Kris gives a shoutout to Derek @lowaterguide who's a great carp guide in Phoenix

19:30 - Common carp usually eat flies that stand straight up like headstand patterns, dragonfly nymphs, or damsel fly nymphs. Grassies usually go for plant-like flies that are more colorful.

21:30 - AZ is the only fly shop in Phoenix

22:30 - For leaders, Kris uses 12 and 14-foot 3X. Umpqua's 8-pound 10-foot is a pretty good leader.

26:25 - SRP owns the grass carp

27:30 - Kris walks about 7 miles every time he's fishing for carp. Carp fishing is moving. The more water you can cover, the more successful you'll be.

28:30 - Carp likes hot weather. The best time to fish them is when it's too hot outside.

34:10 - F&F Chewing Gum worm is great for swinging flies for carp

37:42 - In Phoenix they have: arctic grayling, brookies, browns, rainbows, tigers, apache trout, hellas, and bonneville cutts

43:10 - We had an episode about Beaver Island at WFS 102

49:55 - Kris mentions some other species that he targets like sucker fish, tilapia, tiger sicclid, and catfish

53:55 - The Carpalicious is a good fly. Kris doesn't go anything without Black and Brown Wooly Buggers.

59:10 - Kris gives a shoutout to Henry @littleboss2hauler from the Youth Team Fly Fishing USA

1:01:00 - AZ Fly Shop has already raised around 30,000 dollars for local charities. They're having their 2nd Carp Rally on Sept 24, 2022.

1:09:00 - One of the number one causes of homelessness in Arizona is kids aging out of foster care. They donate a lot of money to the Homeless ID Project where they help the homeless to obtain important documents so they can get a job and a place to live, etc.

Show Notes: https://wetflyswing.com/371

Check out this episode!

[largemouthbassnation]

Smallmouth Bass & Bluegill: Fishing by sight (Umpqua River, Oregon) Smallmouth Bass and Bluegill fishing on the Umpqua River in Oregon was a bit slow for bigger fish on the day we went to shoot this video, but see Sarah catch ... source

[rainsofautumn]

Wooly Buggers in Purple, Black, and Brown respectively, sz 4

[justfishing436]

Black Wooly Bugger Streamer

[mydistracteddrive]

Life in the Time of Pandemic 05Sep20

A spectacularly beautiful morning on the Housatonic River.  I’m sorry I had to use a clandestine route to get there.  The river’s not off limits, but unfortunately the pandemic has caused many public access points to be closed because people were overwhelming them, staying in close contact and leaving trash behind.  All I did was traverse part of the closed property to get into the river.  And I was rewarded with this beauty, certainly the largest smallmouth bass I’ve caught on a fly rod.  What a fight he gave me!  Right after I landed him an osprey flew overhead, there wasn’t a cloud in the sky, the sun was reflecting off the water and I felt very grateful to be in that time and place.

[killdozer-chimp]

Epic fly fishing trip today!

The shawsheen river

A few creek chubs

Yellow perch

Spotted bass

All caught on a chartreuse wooly bugger

[marcherren]