I fished Salt Marsh B last night for a couple hours with #2 Son, Cam. The water was infested with silversides, crabs, and grass shrimp. Surely this bountiful buffet would summon legions of striped diners. But no. There were a few bass around — we even managed to catch some of them — but the audio feeding tells of a hundred popping mouths was strangely absent. We fished a team of three shrimp flies, a Micro Gurgler on top, Caddis Shrimp middle dropper, and Black General Practitioner on point. All three flies found favor. Given this season and our general location, we’ll take it.
A fine silhouette to see, even in murky marsh water.
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A non fly fishing friend has been fishing around westerly beaches and said it has been horrible the last 3 weeks.
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My take is twofold: the striper stock is clearly down, hence there are less of them; and, they are concentrated in areas other than southern CT, like north shore LI and the Cape.
When you say the point fly, are you talking about the last fly at the end of the leader? Joe verlicco.
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Hi Joe, yes, the point fly is the fly farthest from the angler.
When the bait is juvenile menhaden I call this the Triple P. (Predator to Peanut Proportion) It is never preferable to have the Triple P weighed too heavily on the 2nd P hahaha!
I kept saying to Cam, “I can’t believe there aren’t more bass here.” It was a massive feed for those that were.
I wonder if stripers perceive the GP as a shrimp or as a crab. Grass shrimp are pretty transparent. Not that it matters, they love crabs too.
We’ll never know. What’s certain is that it looks like something that’s alive and good to eat. In this particular case, the crabs I saw were dramatically larger than a GP tied on a size 8 hook. And while you’re correct that grass shrimp are highly transparent, consider that we were fishing in water with a visibility that could be measured in inches. Plus: there may have been other bite triggers in play, such as waking motion. All points to ponder over a dram of single malt…