The fishing has been a repeat of my last few entries.  I’m catching a few bass in the 1 to 2 lb class mostly on flies but with one exception, the Shaw Grigsley baby craw plastic jig.  I’ve also caught a few nice channel cats mostly on flies, the clouser minnow in green and white.  However, Larry Tegtmeyer, on one of his visits, gave me a few of the flies that he apparently designed and made himself.  One of them really has proven itself to be a real fish catcher.  Its a streamer.  He designed it so that it appears like a wooly bugger head with a rabbit strip body.  The color is  a white head, twin eyes, and a tan body of feathers and a rabbit strip.  I tied it on after all else had failed that afternoon.  When I cast it out I had an immediate strike from a very large bass.  The bass took off like a bat out of h… and caught me completely off guard.  The bass headed straight for the bushes hanging along the shore and got off.  I really didn’t do a good job of trying to properly set the hook being mainly concerned with keeping it out of the bushes.  Exciting, yes!   Moving along I hung into another big bass in the same area.  This time I set the hook.  Again, the fish took off for the bushes and underwater roots.  I could not stop it.  With my holding onto the line, not allowing the fish to take any more line, the leader broke.  I lost another big bass, the exceptional fly, and felt totally exasperated.  I still have another of these flies and I wrote Larry of my experience and sent him a picture of it.  I’m saving the fly so that I don’t lose it and so that I can use it to find other flies with a similar pattern.  I also told Larry that I think he ought to patent the fly design.  Thanks Larry, you are one heck of a fly designer.

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Jim