My own pond is TOUGH to fish with UL because we have so much flooded timber – you could practically walk across my pond on all the downed trees. That means that most fish I get on will wrap around something. I once landed what I thought was a 10+ pound LMB and, in a manner of speaking, it was. It was a 3-pounder that I finally landed along with a 6-foot long dead branch that it was wrapped around!

Fortunately, I have friends with other ponds that don’t have so much timber in them so, I fish small senkos and small flukes in them. My biggest problem with that kind of fishing is that I can’t always get a good hookset using my favorite UL rod – an 8’6″ custom rod that was built on a 4-wt Rainshadow flyrod blank. It’s super fun when I get one to stay buttoned up!

Thanks!