I remember many afternoons with my dad in a 14' jonboat. Sculling along the river bank with flyrods and bumblebee popping bugs. Dropping those poppers beside a big cypress tree, or in an open hole in the pads and having bass come clean out of the water after them. Most weren't monsters but on a flyrod, there's as much finesse in the fight as there is in the delivery.

If I could only own one rod, it would definitely be a flyrod....or three!!

.10 surface acre pond, 10.5 foot deep. SW LA. The epitome of a mutt pond. BG, LMB, GSF, RES, BH, Warmouth, Longear Sunfish, Gambusia,Mud Minnows, Crappie, and now shiners!!...I subscribe!!