Visited Serenity Park Again

These were the only two photos I got on this trip. Dan and I met at the pond around quarter of seven. Fished the foam spider on the zero weight. That is one popular little pattern. I landed quite a number of bluegill, dinks and a few fat, round, orange-bellied nice ones.

The height of the fun had to have been the bass who took a bluegill I was fighting, made a bold run for the brush. My little zero weight was bent over double! Had to struggle to keep it from reaching a dangerous degree of bend. It was like being snagged on a log. Then he was gone, along with the bluegill and the foam spider. Funny, because I was about to take it off and swap it out due to one set of legs having been pulled off by dink attacks. Tying Tip; glue the legs after tying them in.

So here's a question; how many of my dear readers have hoked up with a bass (or any fish) in this fashion and how many times have the fish been landed? I'd like to hear from you in the comments on this point.

Hidden Agenda

Most folks in McKinney know about Towne Lake. It's a popular jogging and picnicing spot plus a lot of fishing get done there.

But just to the east (right as one looks at the map) is a hidden pond. Alligator Lake might be it's nickname as this was where a small alligator was found a few years back.

I have seen good sized carp rolling and splashing in this pond but have yet to fish it enough to know what all resides therein.

Anyone fished it? Any reports? Besides the alligator that is.

Fly Casting in McKinney

We got together for some casting a while back. Here is a photo-revisit

Mr. spey casting fanboy at work


Long Haired Dave at ease


"I can't hear you for all the tailing loops"


part of the crew


working on that cast (Artan prefects his timing)


this young lady casts as well or better than anyone here


lunch afterwards

Tying the Dahlberg Diver

Bass on the Fly Sunday AM Wee Hours

In advance, apologies for truncated images, I am working on that part.

After my last trip to Serenity Park and seeing the large-sized Micropterus salmoides as opposed to the bass that put the "micro-" in Micropterus, I decided that I'd hit it early with poppers and get hooked up with some. On our last trip we saw big bass feeding on bluegills, one of which was already on my line.

We got to the park around 6:00 AM, still dark. A cottontail was out feeding, he was a bit skittish but hung around while the spotlight was put on him and two photos taken. Not that wild at all.



Nice and dark and woodsy on the way in


So I got started fishing


While my photographer looked for inspiration (all these photos except the one of him were taken by Evan)


This was the only fish landed. Not in the class of fish I was hoping for but hey, he was a blast on the one weight!


Fished for almost an hour after that one little bass



Then the sun came up




That's when we noticed the littering


Someone or someones liked Keystone Light, but not enough to bother walking to the trashcan on the way out. Perhaps worried about mommy and daddy catching them? Who knows but it will take a boat to get those cans out.

A few stills to end on an upbeat - Tight Lines to all!