Stumpknocker.....

by RayLee, Tuesday, June 17, 2025, 18:15 (9 days ago)

or baby warmouth ? It is tiny though the photo doesn't give either scale or the actual profile shape. Imagine a dill hamburger slice from a jar and you get the idea of just how small.

I use tiny flies to catch fish this small and can catch them in the most unexpected places.....streetside stormwater ditches in town even.....you ought to see the looks of pity/disdain I get from both motorists & pedestrians. Then the expressions of surprise when a catch is witnessed. I either promptly release the fish unharmed with nothing more than a sore mouth or else I accumulate a few in a bucket to stock the aquarium for the grandkids to observe.

If any here are anglers and you find the whole sport of ardent serious fishing to be more stressful than it should be then I can wholeheartedly recommend what is referred to as micro fishing. Just last saturday morning after an eleven hour shift I needed to wind down and metabolize 15 cups of java before crashing/siesta. I used a 9' cane pole and 8' of 4 lb. mono and a #14 1/200th. oz. jighead at a very small urban creek near my home. On the jighead was just a piece of something fishy smelling from one of those berkley brand jars. I caught quite a few sunfishes.....I lost count at 19 and none were bigger than a potato chip.

Fellow church congregants who are serious bass anglers used to pick at me but several now carry ultralight gear in their $60,000 boats with weighted floats which facilities throwing the near weightless flies and tiny jigs without actual fly gear. After an arduous day on the water languishing in the summer sun without a single bass bite, they now unwind and cool off for a while and redeem the time with a few tiny bites.

Your thoughts ?

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