Martin luther king recreational lake (first fish on the gurgler)

[Senor_denito]

Tied up some chartreusse gurglers last night and decided to test them out today. I took a trip to Martin luther king recreational park and fished the lake. Lots of grass and weed would've been a nightmare for anyone with sinking line or subsurface streamers.

I was armed with gurglers and on a mission to catch my first fish on a top water fly. I paid attention to the Lilly pads and was able to successfully land casts between them or right before them. It took some time understanding how to work the fly.

After a few blip blip burrrps I was hooked up with a bass who burst out and took my fly. I set the hook, however he thrashed and out came the gurgler.

I kept at it and eventually landed this smaller largemouth.

[Matthew Longley]

Nice man!  I've yet to land a fish on a gurgler (just tied some up a few weeks back), but love catching fish on poppers.  There's really nothing like a bass crushing a topwater fly.

[Nedak]

I found a nice pattern for tying a weedless gurgler.  Essentially just tie in some mono to loop from back of hook to eye and protect the hook.   Will be trying it end of the month.

On Tuesday, June 11, 2013 9:43:52 PM UTC-4, Senor_denito wrote: