Fly Fishing for Musky on Cave Run Lake, KY

by | Apr 15, 2016 | Uncategorized

blog-April-15-2016-1-flyfishing-Cave-Run-KentuckyIt was a stunningly beautiful morning on Cave Run Lake.  I’m not familiar with sunrise here in Kentucky but to be hypnotized by bird songs I don’t recognize and dazzled by leaves popping on every tree – no doubt it was as good as it gets.  Furthermore, I was on a guided trip fly fishing for muskellunge with Granny and our Kentucky friend, John Reesor.

 

blog-April-15-2016-2-flyfishing-kentuckyAfter we launched our flashy vessel, it was a short run to the first musky flat.  Our guide, Ryan Rayburn, knew exactly zero about fly fishing.  As I suspected, when Ryan was first contacted by John he was reluctant to allow fly fishing from his bass boat.  But Ryan is young, energetic and outgoing and when we arrived he was pumped with the idea.  He earned my respect quick because when he looked at my Brad Bohen fly in the water he said, “Wow – that looks better than our lures!  Our musky haven’t seen anything like that!”

 

blog-April-15-2016-3-flyfishing-for-muskyThere’s a lot of truth to Ryan’s comment about my fly.  I’ve musky fished for years and the monsters we pursue have had lots of hardware tossed at them.  There’s no doubt in my mind the big wise musky laugh at the concoctions and their dangling treble hooks of mass destruction.  Cave Run Lake rarely sees fly rodders and as we started casting the flies I felt plenty confident.

 

blog-April-16-2016-4-granny-currier-musky-fishingBut today was musky fishing.  And no matter how dazzling your flies are or how far you cast, when the musky’s aren’t hungry you aint catching them!  It was a wonderful day on the water.  The temperature touched 75° and we had hardly an ounce of wind.  It’s exactly what we love to kick back in but the opposite of what excites more than half the world’s species of fish.  We’ll take it easy tomorrow but that should include a look around some golf courses for and old favorite, Mr. white Amur (grass carp).

 

Jeff Currier Global Fly Fishing

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I started fly fishing at age 7 in the lakes and ponds of New England cutting my teeth on various sunfish, bass, crappie and stocked trout. I went to Northland College in Ashland, Wisconsin, where I graduated with a Naturalist Degree while I discovered new fishing opportunities for pike, muskellunge, walleyes and various salmonids found in Lake Superior and its tributaries.

From there I headed west to work a few years in the Yellowstone region to simply work as much as most people fish and fish as much as most people work. I did just that, only it lasted over 20 years working at the Jack Dennis Fly Shop in Jackson, WY where I departed in 2009. Now it’s time to work for "The Man", working for myself that is.

I pursue my love to paint fish, lecture on every aspect of fly fishing you can imagine and host a few trips to some of the most exotic places you can think of. My ultimate goal is to catch as many species of fish on fly possible from freshwater to saltwater, throughout the world. I presently have taken over 440 species from over 60 countries!

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