I did not fish last night, but Bill-e did. He called me at about 9:30pm and he was still wired from an evening fast saltwater action. “You should have seen it, fish were everywhere!” So, after work today, I strapped my kyak on my car and headed to the beach. The ocean was calm and the sun was setting and the flyfishing was on fire. I paddled out to some working birds and it was like flyfishing Nirvana when I reached them. Striped Bass, of all sizes, were busting all around me. Birds were screaming, bait was popping out of the water and stripers were crashing all around me. I was actually so intrigued by the action I did not even fish for a while. I just watched as natures “Survival Of The Fittest” unfolded before me. It was a frenzy like you read about. So, I finally decided to cast my fly. It hit the water, WHAM! I had a 30″ fish on my line. He towed me all around the harbor in my kyak. I brought him in, threw out another cast, WHAM! Fish on! Then I got tired of catching them in the kyak, so I got out, tied the kyak off to my waiste and waded on the sandbar. The bait was peeling off the sandbar as the tide starting rolling out with more momentum. The Striped Bass just congregated on the sandbar and I was able to actually sight fish. The water was crystal clear and I could see the fish cruizing the shorelines. What a blast. The sun started to set and I left the fish feeding on the sandbar. Fun stuff!
Book
- Alaska
- Guide & Fisherman
- Guiding: Choosing Your Guide And Choosing Your Customer
- Guiding: Do It Yourself With A Guide
- Guiding: Evolution Of A Guide
- Guiding: Freshwater, More Than Meets The Eye
- Guiding: Friends For Life
- Guiding: Know Where You Are
- Guiding: More Than Just A Fisherman
- Guiding: Mystery Of The Fisherman
- Guiding: Payment
- Guiding: Saltwater, A Different World
- Rough Fish
- Fly Fishing For Rough Fish: Why Do It?
- Introduced Rough Fish: The Carps & Other Invasive Species
- Methodology: Gear & Tactics For Pursuing Roughfish On A Fly
- More Roughfish: Bullheads, Whitefish, Goldeye, Burbot & Drum
- Rough Fish Environments: Where To Look For Rough Fish?
- Rough Fish Species: The Suckers
- Rough fish: A Lifetime Of Learning
- Rough Fish: Fishing For Dinosaurs (Gars & Bowfin)
- Rough Fish: What Are They?
- The Hook: Some Common Rough Fish Fly Patterns
- Spey
- Spey: Applications, Where Can You Do It?
- Spey: Atlantic Salmon, A Significant Fish
- Spey: Defined And Demystified
- Spey: Gear, The Nuts And Bolts
- Spey: Lines, They Are That Important
- Spey: Steelhead, New Traditions & A Modern Movement
- Spey: The Energy
- Spey: The Flies
- Spey: The Swing
- Spey: Two Critical Casts
- Striped Bass
- Striped Bass: Fishing Rocky Shorelines
- Striped Bass: Fishing The Beaches
- Striped Bass: Fishing The Flats
- Striped Bass: Fishing The Reefs
- Striped Bass: Fishing Tidal Rivers
- Striped Bass: Flatwing Swing
- Striped Bass: Fly Line Options & Choices
- Striped Bass: Gear, The Nuts & Bolts
- Striped Bass: Migration Patterns
- Striped Bass: What They Eat
- The Art Of Escape
- Fly Fishing: A Natural Drug
- Fly Fishing: A Validation Of Freedom
- Fly Fishing: Don’t Fight The Current
- Fly Fishing: It Is What It Is
- Fly Fishing: Socialization For Asocial Individuals
- Fly Fishing: The Allure Of The Fish
- Fly Fishing: The Art Of Escape
- Fly Fishing: The Simplicity Of It All
- Fly Fishing: Time Flies
- Fly Fishing: Times You Remember & Try To Forget
You are a lucky guy. Fishing for trout right next door and then hop to the salt for sightfishing stripers.
I canĀ“t wait untill my fall vacation. Maybe I get another shot at sightfishing for the beach Snook. 99 percent of the Snook I encounter either spook or ignore the fly. But the 1 percent that actually nails the fly makes my day