What Orvis guys do when they're not working...

John and I were both off today so we did what you'd expect Orvis guys to do.... we went fishing.

John had his Access 9' 5wt.

.... it worked well.

Using mostly Booglebug Poppers, and occasionally adding on a Woolly Bugger as a dropper, both largemouth bass and scrappy bluegills put plenty of bend in the rod.

John with a nice largemouth

In one particular stretch, John pulled out 6 bass on 8 casts!

I had some decent luck as well using my Access 9'6 wt.

A size# 4 blue popper seemed to work best.  The bass were holding in classic "fishy"water --- in & around logjams, undercut banks, weed edges, deeper runs.....







Between the two of us.... more than 25 bass and 35 panfish were caught.... and released. 

Largemouth with attitude!