Dave Whitlock displays a great largemouth from a 1985 story. Image through Fly Fisherman
Forty years earlier, composing in the June 1985 concern of Fly Angler publication, Dave Whitlock recommended an unique method to capturing largemouth bass. At the time, banners and topwater flies were believed to be the very best method to capture bucketmouths, however Whitlock found that the nymphs he fished for panfish were likewise hooking bass.
Among the biggest bass I ever hooked took a barbless size 12 caddis pupa I was swimming throughout a huge bed of bluegill and redear nests on a little local lake near Bartlesville, Oklahoma. The bass came like a huge cars and truck out of no place, spreading panfish like a covey of quail. Then it stopped and drank in the small nymph more delicately than any hand-size bluegill could. With a chill adding my back and neck, I set the hook. The fragile action stopped instantly and a severe fight started. Initially, the huge bass scampered the shallow nest pocket-cover to deep water. After a couple of worried give-and-cake exchanges, the largemouth showed up for a knocking, head-shaking surface area vault.
These methods clearly still work today, and you might discover that fish that have actually ended up being careful of larger flies will still consume a nymph.
