I woke up at 7:20am yesterday, took Cam to soccer camp, fished the Farmy for 90 minutes, picked him up, did some work, took Gordo to hockey camp, drove us home, made supper, hung out with the family…then got in the car at 10:40pm and drove to Rhode Island.
It poured on the way down, but SoCo was mostly just fog and dense clouds bracketing the universe’s attempt to shine through. Spot A was an estuary; there were bass and bait (silversides and peanuts), but the bass were 80 feet out, sporadically ambushing bait from below, unwilling to chase a fly, and I couldn’t present the way I wanted to. Spot B was the open beach. I didn’t like the easterly breeze, some of the surf was sketchy big, and I decided that absent ay signs of bait or bass, it was too much work. Spot C was some skinny water like the kind you can find around the edges of Narragansett Bay. Second cast, three fly team, on the dangle, BANG! A good fish, 10 pounds, on the peanut bunker bucktail top dropper. Hooked two more then called it a night — or is that a very long day, since I didn’t get into bed until after 3am.
That’s eight consecutive months of a striper on the fly from the shore. Last night’s winning entry was this small bucktail, 2″ long and so sparse you can read the newspaper through it. I love catching bigger bass on smaller flies.
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Bravo!
Thank you. 🙂
Enjoyable read. Great family man. Lovely fly. VERY nice bass.
Biggest one I’ve taken from that spot. I’ll take a little luck.
Nice again, Steve! I definitely put too much bucktail into some of my Ray’s flies. They start to look and produce better as they fall apart. Glad ya got a few fish…
Tightest…
Frank
I am often surprised by how little material you need to fool a fish.
Good going Steve. And I admire your stamina.
I told myself, “you better go tonight because you won’t want to tomorrow night…”
Diehard ! That’s who you are. I wish I could get my fanny going late night more often.
If there’s ever a debate between “should I stay home?/should I go fishing?,” I wired my hard drive so the default is fishing. 🙂