Man I love my little Flystart 1....got no complaints....use it primarily on a St. Croix Legend Ultra 3wt.

The only reason why you caught the small bass is the small fly choice IMO. I find if I use big huge flies, only big boys stuff it in. I throw awefully large frog flies that I have owned for almost a decade. The fly in this picture has caught more bass than any fly I throw. I caught five the night of this picture all in the last minutes before the sun went down. He is not a monster, but this pond has yet to show me the biggest one. I fish it here and there so I assume there is one or two in it that go 5+ pounds considering it is about half acre maybe less. 5 foot deep max. There was a dead one out there last year that was every bit of 5 lbs