Davids bass
David took the ride down to seek one of his favorite fish. We started out and in the first 15 minutes or so put a half dozen bass in the boat. They weren’t as big as the ones that we had been catching lately but it was a good start. We left them and soon found our friend albert. They liked my new fly from last week until they didn’t. We made a color change and convinced a couple more to eat. They got finicky again and we caught bass till it became routine. Add a bunch of shad to the mix and it ended up a pretty successful day. Click on Davids bass to see a short video that was supposed to be a photo.

Today Dave and Cindy came out for their first adventure on the briny. We left early and found scattered schools of albies and stripers. At this stage I can’t remember who did what first. We were busy all day with both species. They had numerous doubles which is always fun. The albies are running a bit larger. I tried a new fly pattern and they weren’t fussy today. We ended up with more albies than bass and three tired people. Another fun day.

Friday was a day off so we decided to head out after such a good day yesterday. We left early and made the run only to find lots of mackerel and shad where we left the bass the day before. They were fun for about three minutes so we kept on going. Eventually we found the bass along with 20 other boats. It was pretty ugly with everyone trying to get on top of the fish. We stay as long as we could stand it and wound up with a nice bunch of fish. On the way home we found two more schools of fish each with 15 boats surrounding them.

Thursday brought Gary back out to start his Fall season. There was no wind and flat seas when we left the dock. The first stop brought a handful of bass to his fly. Moving around we found an acre of bass all to ourselves. To make a long story shorter we had fish all morning and into the afternoon. Mostly good sized schoolies with a few bigger ones mixed in.A pretty fun day.

Today Jay brought Ron out for his first salt water boat trip. We left the dock early and it wasn’t too long before we found fish. The guys doubled with bass on their first cast. We picked a couple more and then headed out on our adventure. It was a bit on the breezy side and the waves breaking over the reefs and on the beach were about eight feet thanks to our friendly hurricane. We found more fish that were right in the suds and too close to shore to get good shots at them. we did pick up a blue that was passing through. we left to try and find quieter waters and came upon a big bunch of small breaks on the surface. Jay pulled out an atlantic mackerel out and we continued on. We found a big pile of fish in the wash of the rocks and trying to fight the wind and the tide proved futile. We kept moving and Jay hooked up and landed a Spanish mackerel for his fourth species and a Grand Slam the mackerel way. This was the first Spanish that I’ve landed so that was pretty cool. It was a fun day despite some very challenging conditions.

Gail and I actually got up early today to try and beat the latest weather front. We had albies, bass and even a chub mackerel all on the fly with some action also on Albi Snax. Fishing was good until the wind switched to the east in late morning and then it became a challenge. All in all it was good to get our fly lines stretched the right way.