Lunkers in Wichita

Trout fishing is really fun in Wichita, Kansas, and the fly fishermen are friendly and helpful.  The Big Slough Creek is stocked every 2 weeks (October 15 to April 15) with 912 trout for a season total of 10,944.  Most are 10 inches.  Some are 2 pounds.

Today I saw a very experienced fly fisherman catch a lunker: 3.5 pounds.  I was lucky to also video tape part of the landing.  (See this video on the home page).  We were playing hooky from the Fall Banquet of the Flatland Fly Fishers Club (to go fishing).

More photos of trout fishing at http://www.cantos.org/fishing/ (click on Sedgwick County Park).  Don't forget that the Creek is restricted to fly fishing: no bait, no plastics, no treble hooks.  A "Fly" is a device constructed on a single pointed hook from fether, chenille, yarn, silk, rayon, nylon thread or floss, with or without a spinner, usually resembling a flying insect or larvae.