Am I the only one on this forum? I've looked over most of the posts and 0 entries on fly fishing. I've caught large mouth bass, small mouth bass, blue gills and trout on home tied flies. There are those who go after carp, tarpon, salmon and many other species with flies.

Any fish I hook is fun in my opinion. However some pan fish have been so small I yank the fish clean out of the water when setting the hook. Feel kind of silly when that happens. A good size pan fish has a lot of fight in it. Trout is somewhat a recent experience for me. Went twice this year to Douthat State Park in Virginia and out of 6 days on the water had one where I was catching both rainbow and brown trout. That was a blast.

The browns and rainbows were biting on a gray #14 scud. They also took a worm imitation that I had tied as a pan fish lure. That was tied on a #12 Gama hook with orange ultra chenille.

Biggest surprise to me was that brown trout have teeth. Reached for the forceps real quick with the first one I landed.

No, the teeth never got  me. I saw them while it was still in the net. Got the forceps first.

No, it wasn't a San Juan imitation. I used a short tail with buck tail, wrapped the chenille round the hook and dubbed a creme collar. 

No picture yet. Just signed up for photobucket. Will have to find out correct procedure on how to post pictures. Have never done that.