My suggestion would be to start off trying some ponds around the area. For a first time fly fisher it will be easier to cast and have a better at chance catching a couple fish….even if it’s just a bluegill. I live in mason and fish a lot of the neighborhoods and some can produce good action for bass. Try village lakes, they have a few different ponds and nobody ever says anything about fishing (as long as you are throwing the fish back).

 

My suggestion would be to start off trying some ponds around the area. For a first time fly fisher it will be easier to cast and have a better at chance catching a couple fish….even if it’s just a bluegill. I live in mason and fish a lot of the neighborhoods and some can produce good action for bass. Try village lakes, they have a few different ponds and nobody ever says anything about fishing (as long as you are throwing the fish back).

I do believe you have to live there or be a guest.

 

I fish the LMR all the time, and I've fly fished a lot in trout streams around the country and in ponds and lakes, but I have never caught a thing in the LMR on a fly rod. Never a thing. Those fish are meat eaters. Your best bet for a beginner is to find a friendly farmer with a pond full of bluegills and have at that, which is a blast anyway! Often if you're polite, farmers will let you fish their ponds if you ask, especially if overpopulated with bluegills, which often happens.

 

i dont live there and fish it a few times each year and and have never had anything said to me.

 

Todds Fork is a great size for flyfishing. Also Ive done very well on the Little Miami early and late (before/after the canoes). South Lebanon, Kings, Morrow, Waynesville all have parking on the river, just be sure and hunt up a good riffle to fish near. Some of the long slow holes you find in this middle section wont produce many smallmouth or white bass on your flyrod without a riffle to provide food nearby.

Something like a woolyworm or a wooleybugger fished above or below a riffle will get bit.
Also dry flies will catch longeared sunfish around wood like downed treetops out of the main current.

The Little Miami Inc trail center in Loveland has some great maps of the entire river.

 

i dont live there and fish it a few times each year and and have never had anything said to me.

It's private property. What do we call that when you go onto someones land w/o permission?

 

It's private property. What do we call that when you go onto someones land w/o permission?

We call that conquest. It's the american way.!@

 

We call that conquest. It's the american way.!@

thats right.....for a quick fish at a place i know i can go catch fish im going to do what i gotta do.