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I've been wade fishing most of the summer but took the kayak out today and fished the refuge from 8:00AM to 3:30PM. Started at Long Bar but got nothing. Went up the East River and scratched a ladyfish, a jack and a catfish (trash slam!, although I don't count the jack crevalle as a trash fish) along with a small spanish. Fish came on Olive/chart/white clousers. Went back to Long Bar with the incoming and saw lots of silversides along the oyster bar so I worked the bar with the clouser and got 5 redfish in about a hour - 2 19's, 1 18" and two rats. Nothing real picture worthy but fun, especially on the 7wt. No trout - haven't caught one in a while.

Sounds like a good day on the water.

Fun stuff! Congrats and thanks for posting.

Jean

Great stuff on the fly! I'd rather catch fish on fly than by any other means. Do you tie your own flies?

bk wrote:Great stuff on the fly! I'd rather catch fish on fly than by any other means. Do you tie your own flies?

Yes - I tie up a couple a night, since I seem to lose about 5 or 6 every time I fish. Mostly clousers or clouser varients, gartside gurglers, sand shrimp, cowan's coyotes and some puglisi patterns.

Very cool! We should swap ties sometime.

bk wrote:Very cool! We should swap ties sometime.

Yeah - I'll try and post up a couple of pics later - they're not too pretty! I'm geared more toward blind casting than sight casting; most of what I catch is on a clouser (3/16 eyes) on an intermediate line.

Nothing wrong with blind casting in my opinion. That's 98% of what I do, fly or conventional. And, flies don't need to be pretty, as long as they make you happy.