2014/12/22 [Late Late Report] LNL Troutin (1st ever Crappie and LMB)

Sorry for the late report...I saw Jerdon's post and wanted to share other species caught last month. I think this is my first report on this forum. Any other fly fishers out there? DT2

Report:
Due to the late stocking in the morning the staff was keeping fisherman off the half of the lake from the docks to the dam. That made the bubbler area in front of the store pretty crowded. DT1 and I made the best of it and had a decent but not off the hook day. DT1 had one of his best days at LNL with numerous crappie and bows fishing a Yozuri hardbait and towing a streamer fly. Even though the water was murky with about a two foot visibility, the water temp, 59-60 deg F, was cooler than last year.

Caught a variety, crappie, tail walker trout, and large mouth bass.  The trout were very acrobatic and ranged from about 17” to a little over 19”.  Even though the bass was pushing 19”, it has nothing on any of the salt water varieties in terms of punching power.

All fish caught on Rio DC26 Striper line 200gr. I switched over to try an intermediate line when I thought that the fish were on top, but didn't get any hits with that.

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My buddy DT1 and his Nebraska Tailwalker Bow
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All my trout took the Blood Leech dropper fly
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Typical LNL Substrate
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19” LMB (I’d rather catch a spottie)
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Flys of the day:
Crappie took an Ice Dub Hot Head Leech
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Bass took an olive/black crazy dad
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All trout took a Semi Seal Blood Red Leech
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Great report supsurfer, that is a nice crappie, tail walker, Large mouth..... oh hell they are all great fish bro. I have not been on LNL for a long time and that looks more like what I remember it being like. If caught on the right day you can catch anything.
I know there are more fly fishermen on the board here it will take some time but you will find them. Thanks again great report.

Awesome report and great pics!!! good job! wtg, thanks for sharing!!

Great pic's........thanks.GT

Nice job man! Good to see the water warming up.

Now that was a great report supsurfer.
Great pics of the flys too. Thanks for sharing.

Nice report! Great pictures, thanks for sharing!

Strong work!

Great pictures and nice report.

Great report and pics! Thanks....

Nice report and thank you for sharing.

Nice wtg!