ewest --
Many thanks for that picture/link to George's flies -- he does some really great stuff. I especially like his pellet pattern. I've been using a black closed cell foam. It looks pretty close to the 3/8" pellets I feed, but they're not very durable. His pattern looks like it can really take some hits.
Tom F --
Thanks for the kind words about the pond. My wife just wishes I'd spend about half as much time working in our orchard as I do on the pond ... so, I have to remind her that our orchard has yet to produce its first trout (or big sunfish).
burgermeister --
Longears were just about the favorite fish of my long-ago youth back in the Ohio Valley. They could be found in nearly any small stream in southwestern Ohio _if_ it had reasonably clean water ... if not, well, then it was likely a green sunfish creek. I really have to research my hybrids a bit more. I think the fellow from Arkansas who sells fish at out local Co-op pays a visit later on this month. I'll see what he can share about their lineage. -- Mike
