JimR

I'd love to fish the Apple river this year.  Was wondering if anyone hear could give me some pointers on the type of wade I can expect and maybe an example or two of a nice route to take?  Thanks in advance.

Wondering what weight fly rod would be a good all around starter. I fish the Kish mostly for those who are familiar. For those who may not be: It's mostly 10-16 inch smallies with the occasional tank. Pike are plentiful, but seldom (unless your fishing for them) will one over 24" show itself. Lots of white and rock bass. The former scarcley reaching more than 14", and the latter, well, they try hard. I'm thinking 6 or 7 but I will be the quintessential new guy when it comes to this so I need your help. Thanks.

Allow me to clarify.  Have you ever not used a lure that you knew would catch you more fish, maybe lots more fish, just because it was a "child's lure", "cooky cutter", or maybe because you were just so darned determined to prove that you could catch them on something else too?  I sure know I have.  Mostly probably with the inline spinner.  Sometimes I think that I could almost double my numbers if that was all I used.  The truth is, it's almost more fun for me to catch few or even no fish while learning to use new techniques than it is to make a million of the exact same cast with the same lure and catch 30 dinks.  I have absolutely no disrespect for the in-line spinner (quite the oppositte actually) and especialy not for those who use it almost exclusively.  I just cannot however bring myself to believe that that's almost always going to outfish most other lures (for numbers anyway).  Now obviously there are exceptions probably from most of you (Eric, John, Norm,etc,etc.) who could tie a shoelace with sparkles to a hook made from bone and catch just as many fish as me with the spinner, but I'll think I'll stick to my mediocre days of pearl grubs, flukes, chug bugs, and Wasshoppers with something new every month.  Am I alone in this?   Tight lines.