Captain Kevin Doran told us that May was his favorite Top Water month for LMB in the Delta.

https://www.google.com/search?q=capt...id:U1Y0wmSr0Tg

Most use the Umpqua 'Swimming Frog' and the Umpqua 'Swimming Baitfish'.

Both are kind of like a Dalberg Diver.



Captain Andy Guibord spent a lot of time with KD in the Delta after LMB and can teach you many of his top-water subtleties.


I will ask Steve Potter what his favorite Delta top water hair bugs are.

Steve won the first ever "Bass-N-fly" in the Delta with hair bugs on top.


Before KD and others helped Jerry Siem develop the Sage Bass outfits he used a 9' #7 fly rod with a WF8F bass taper.

I think KD's simple leader was about 4 feet of 30# mono for the butt and 3 feet of 20# for the tippet.


KD liked "Russ Peak line dressing" for floating for his hair bugs.

Kevin said Umpqua used smaller (25#) size Mason clear hard mono for the weed guard than he preferred (30#).



Andy learned from KD how to "tune" the Umpqua factory hair bugs before using them.


They would get the weed guard exactly in line with the point of the hook.


Too bad we don't have a full set of videos about all aspects of KD's power system.

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Many of us were taught how to fly fish farm ponds from float tubes with hard-bodied poppers from Leo Gutterres of Stockton, CA.

Leo taught us to go down the shoreline and cast to the "edge" where the water hit up against anything like weeds, bank or wood.

We cast methodically about every 5 feet down the shoreline or weed edge.

Evenings seem to always be best, in the spring, summer and fall.

He taught us to not retrieve the bug but merely twitch it every 5 to 10 seconds then pick it up and cast down the bank about 5 feet.



Andy, Leo, Steve Potter and I only fish topwater for LMB.