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Good to see the fish are moving. How far up the Hudson are you?
Good to see the fish are moving. How far up the Hudson are you?
Season for spawners ended about a week ago.
Well about a week ago was out for stripers got to one of my favorite haunts at about 9:45 put on the waders and was casting on the end of an incomming tide by 10 :15. I wasn't sure what to expect as the water temp was 63.5 and I wasn't seeing the usual occasional breaking fish.
It was the first night I actually was able to fish in a short sleeved shirt. It was overcast and downright pleasant out with quite a few fireflies already flashing on and off in the trees and over the water. On my fourth cast I had a 40 inch striper, cool to say the least! I had him in to the bank for a picture after a good long tug of war with some nice tail splashes exploding the water surface. After that is was all gravey.
With that luxury I switched flies for some experimenting, tried a gurgler for a while but the sink tip wasn't allowing it to work properly on top, I couldn't get it to gurgle with a hand strip I had to do it with the rod tip, then I tried a slider for a while and had the same problem, so I went back to the herring patterns and did get another tap that I missed.
On a side note I saw for the first time a couple of herons flying around at night, never seen that before.
Took a friend out with me just before the heat wave ended everything, he only has the use of one hand so he flyfishes with a 10' spey rod with a special Italian made reel that has a handle that he can pump with his fingers it looks like a hightech version of of those old Perrine & Martin spring lever automatics. Every pump retrieves line and I think it has an ajustable drag. Any way he hooked into a nice striper that busted off his 25 lb test leader, he was happy to say the least.
For anybody interested the reel is a Franco Vivarelli
http://www.vivarellifranco.com/uk/chi.htm
Here are a couple of this seasons stripers on the 7wt.
This post edited by fi**** 07:25 AM 06/12/2008
Well about a week ago was out for stripers got to one of my favorite haunts at about 9:45 put on the waders and was casting on the end of an incomming tide by 10 :15. I wasn't sure what to expect as the water temp was 63.5 and I wasn't seeing the usual occasional breaking fish.
It was the first night I actually was able to fish in a short sleeved shirt. It was overcast and downright pleasant out with quite a few fireflies already flashing on and off in the trees and over the water. On my fourth cast I had a 40 inch striper, cool to say the least! I had him in to the bank for a picture after a good long tug of war with some nice tail splashes exploding the water surface. After that is was all gravey.
With that luxury I switched flies for some experimenting, tried a gurgler for a while but the sink tip wasn't allowing it to work properly on top, I couldn't get it to gurgle with a hand strip I had to do it with the rod tip, then I tried a slider for a while and had the same problem, so I went back to the herring patterns and did get another tap that I missed.
On a side note I saw for the first time a couple of herons flying around at night, never seen that before.
Took a friend out with me just before the heat wave ended everything, he only has the use of one hand so he flyfishes with a 10' spey rod with a special Italian made reel that has a handle that he can pump with his fingers it looks like a hightech version of of those old Perrine & Martin spring lever automatics. Every pump retrieves line and I think it has an ajustable drag. Any way he hooked into a nice striper that busted off his 25 lb test leader, he was happy to say the least.
For anybody interested the reel is a Franco Vivarelli
http://www.vivarellifranco.com/uk/chi.htm
Here are a couple of this seasons stripers on the 7wt.
This post edited by fi**** 07:25 AM 06/12/2008
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