I caught this nice smallmouth bass the other week while kayak fishing!  This by far was the hardest fighting fish of the entire day.  It's so fun catching smallmouth because of how much they fight for their size. 

​I caught some really nice yellow perch yesterday all on my Artdoorsman Spin Flies! Discovered a small feeder Creek where I caught the first one and the rest were in 3 feet of water or less! Fish is for dinner tonight!

I make my own inline spinner with flies that I tie a lot to go fishing.  I also make them if people order them from me and find it rewarding to help others catch fish.  It's fun experimenting with different patterns and this one seemed to be certainly a hit with all the fish on this day!  The bluegill were absolutely delicious! The Northern Pike was 25 inches and released to grow bigger.  

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The lure in the video is the Early Riser and found here! http://www.etsy.com/listing/710895415

I ended up catching 11 bluegills that were keeper size and threw back countless others.  It was such a good day fishing and it's amazing how time will pass so quickly when out on the water in my kayak.  I fished for close to 10 hours and had so much fun doing so.  There is something so peaceful about fishing and being out on the water.  Completely forgetting about everything else for hours!

It's so fun catching fish, but even more fun when you catch a fish that you weren't targeting.  I was fishing for bluegills as the walleye bite wasn't that productive.  I find it sometimes fun to just revert back to an ultralight rod and fish for bluegills like I did was when I was a kid around the local tributaries around home.  I was casting around edges in the shallows and suddenly this 25" Northern Pike hit my homemade Artdoorsman spin fly lure and the fight was on!

It's been a week since I lost my Grandpa. I made this drawing for him. I'm thankful for knowing him all my life and sharing my artwork with him when I was creating it. He loved nature and enjoyed fishing. Whenever I caught fish I would make sure to show him and he would have a big smile on his face. I always enjoyed sharing the fish with him too. I completed this drawing him for today and plan on writing a poem with it and having it framed in his memory. I just wish so much I could show it to him now.