Originally Posted by mhall
I am here Mark, just had not been on the site since about 7am this morning.
Float N Fly - My FAVORITE way of fishing. If you click on "Articles" from the main Fishin.com page, then index of all article and find the one that I wrote in 2008 will hopefully help you in getting started. There is also a winter fishin.com get together held out of Horse Creek on Dec 18-20, with a meeting taking place Friday Dec 18th at 6pm CST, where several techniques of winter fishing will be talked about. I will be giving the FNF part and Steve Headrick, The Smallmouth Guru, will be giving the rest. There will be door prizes including 2 FNF rods. You can find all the details on the post pegged at the top of this main Ky Fishing Discussion Board.
Economically speaking: CMIDD is right in that warm clothes is a necessity because with 20-40 degree air temps and water temps below 50, plus the sleet, snow and rain, it gets very cold so warm clothes and a GOOD RAIN SUIT are essential.
FNF fishing speaking: If I was starting over with what I know today, 10' Lexus Silstar FNF rod cost about $50, Okuna spinning reel w/wide spool $80 or any other spinning reel with a good drag will work but I really like my Okuna reel, Fish Dope $3, #4 3-way swivels $2, 1 spool 8lb Fireline $14, 1 spool of XPS 6lb Flourocarbon $15, 5 duck feather Red/Chart, Blue/Chart, Purple/Chart jigs any combination, a couple of the following craft hair jigs White/Pink/Blue for high blue skies and smoke gray/black for overcast days. All the jigs 1/16 oz and will cost you a couple of bucks a piece. FNF bobbers, special bobbers with the weight in the center, $5 for 2. All of this will cost you less than $200 and will last you a couple of years of fishing. The fireline is your mainline and you won't have to replace it but every couple of years depending on how much fishing you do. All I do is cut about 6-8 feet off every so often. You can tell when for the line will change from Black to Grey color and get a bit frayed the last 8-10 feet due to all the casting and pulling thru the rod eyes. The Flourocarbon is only used for your 10-15 foot leader so one spool will last a good couple of years, make sure you keep it in a cool dark place thru the summer for next year. The 3-ways and fish dope goes a long long way. Really the only consumable of the technique is the jigs. I know that when I land 4 and 5 pounders, there are times the fish will absolutely destroy them so I keep plenty of my favorite colors on hand. I have been on the water where they would only hit one particular color, this happened to be a solid pink jig and I only had 2 of them but when they destroyed them, that was all the bites I got that day. Learned that day if I am going to spend all the money to go, then what is another $40 worth of jigs in my box going to do. Hope this helps, the article helps and you are welcome to come to the get together and meet about 20 or so other Idiotic Dedicated Winter Time Fishermen if you like.
I fish Duck Feather Chartreuse with Red, Blue or Purple 90% of the time from December thru February. I know there are many that don't tie on this type until the water is much cooler but I know that I have had a LOT of success with these colors from Day 1 of the season to the last day of the season. If you look in my box you will know exactly what my favorites are because I have about 40 of each of these 3 colors, then I will switch to White/Pink/Blue craft hair on high blue sky days after the sun comes above the mountains, and at times craft hair smoke color on cloudy days again after the sun comes above the mountains. NEVER made a cast before 11am with any other color than my top 3 colors, Duck Feather Chartr with Red, Blue or Purple. Red was the color of choice in 2005, 2006, Blue was hot in 2007, and Purple was my go to color all of last year. I use strictly Punisher Lures jigs and you can find them as well as everything at Punisherlures.com or the One Stop in Celina TN. If you stop in, talk to Steve Headrick, Owner, tell him Elwood sent you and he will happily get you set up. You don't have to mention my name and he will still set you up for one heck of a nice guy.
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