Three-spine stickleback on a ‘fly’ at an urban pond
MicroFishDon’t think I’ll do a photo but I can write it out. Rod is an aventik im12 nano Tenkara rod, line was just a short section of 12lb monofilament with 6x tippet, snelled tanago hook with some tiny pieces of crystal flash and lint glued to it. I used the smallest lead free split shot I could find to give me some control. I was able to sight fish from shore but had a hard time actually catching one because they’d either go after the split shot or just nibble at the wrong part of the fly. I actually wasn’t very happy with the way I tied the ‘fly’ and it actually fell apart after I caught this one. So it is back to the drawing board a little bit to figure out something better.
Fascinating little fish! I’ve always heard about these being around, but have never seen one. Did you find it in a particular aquatic habitat? Tying a fly on a tanago is hard core! Any reason you chose the fly as opposed to bait?
This was in a pond basically in the middle of town, but I see them in little back channels along rivers too. They seem to like calm water with a lot of vegetation and cover. The fly is really just an extra challenge, bait would definitely be more effective! The only possible benefit is that the fly can survive getting picked at a bit better than bait. They have tiny mouths so even with the tanago it was tough to actually catch one.
Thanks for the info !
Where was this caught? I’ve seen some males in breeding colors pretty nice. I think they’re invasive in one of the Great Lakes. Nice catch!
Nova Scotia, there native here along with 3 other stickleback species. I am pretty sure this one was a female, I had seen a few smaller brightly coloured ones around as well that I assumed were males. Really nice orange and blue, but so tiny haha. I think I’d need even smaller tanago hooks to catch one.
wannabe lure he already got the weight shifting chamber in the back bottom
Great 😃. Can you put photo of your equipment?