Fly Fishing for Bass and Bluegill With My 2 and 3 Weight Rods

[@jasonmullins6638]

Love me some bluegill action! Good job Jeff!

[@jcarmichaelable]

Just hard to beat a night on the water with fly rod in hand! Hope you’re well!

[@codypayne484]

i really enjoy your videos Jeff! i hope all is well.

[@jcarmichaelable]

Cody, things up north are super and loving life! Good to hear from you! Jeff

[@JJ-qy8xu]

What brand and model are tge rods and reels? Thanks for putting this together!

[@michaelnorman8115]

do you have a recipe for that yellow topwater fly?

[@gigemaggs99]

What rods are you using? Brand?

[@mlbchamps1908]

Hey Jeff, sometimes I have difficulty casting even a medium sized popper with my 3 weight. Can you go over your leader and tippet system? Thx!

[@jcarmichaelable]

Casting a 3 wt is more challenging for sure; you’ve got to learn to be patient and wait for the line to load behind you. Don’t start your forward cast until you feel the pull of the line behind and even feel some drift with your rod hand(arm moves backwards a bit). To be successful you have to learn to haul with line hand if you aren’t already and the best is to be able to double haul on back cast and then on forward cast thus shortening the line to speed it up. Be patient and it will improve! Jeff

[@gregkosinski2303]

@@jcarmichaelablegood stuff plus you could go ahead and use relatively stiff straight mono as a leader and make it as short as you can get away with. We use tapered leaders on flies because the casting energy dissipates as the line becomes less stiff, more floppy and more air resistant relative to its mass. But with a popper, the danged fly itself dissipates so much energy that the challenge is to get energy to it.

[@livennick9]

What line do you use on your 3wt? For the last 12 years I’ve fished 5wt-8wt and never gone below 5. I just ordered my first 3wt and have no clue what line. Awesome video

[@jcarmichaelable]

as easy as it sounds....3 wt line goes with a 3 wt rod/reel; If you look on line and do a little research you will see lots of different 3 wt lines to choose from...my choice is a lower end price of a line as usually I am not trying to cast my 3 wt for a great distance and in turn using the outfit on smaller fish.....

[@livennick9]

@@jcarmichaelableyah I was just asking what brand and subcat. It’s cool.

[@DarrenLongar]

And what leader and tippet? I notice you picking them up by the line so it must be stronger than what I am using?

[@santamanone]

Do you keep any? Those have all been big enough to fry.

[@jcarmichaelable]

Only occasionally.....to be honest, I like pike and on our main lake, anytime I catch a pike in mid 20's I keep those as they are (my opinion) the cream of the crop.....

[@Worm_Dunker]

Who cooks for you? Who cooks for you all?