Stupid fishing......CSH/Lloyd's Fishing Report
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| April 29, 2006 11:44 PM |
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| saltydoc |
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| Report location |
| New York > North Shore > Stupid fishing......CSH/Lloyd's |
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| Fly Fishing |
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I swear...I tried not to say it. I knew what would happen. It just came out. I donned the neoprenes, picked up my 8 wt St.Croix lite action flyrod with clear intermediate line and my only 2inch chartreuse deceiver and casted around several locales from 5-7PM until I found the fish. Once found, the schoolies from 12 to 20 inches hit the fly nonstop providing superb action with the sun setting and a gentle breeze from the northeast.My left thumbtip had that familiar sandpaper feel from lipping many fish. I was really enjoying myself until it happened. I said to myself: This is so good it's....er...(no don't say it)...it's stupid. Yep I said it. A few casts later it hit hard and sudden. My fly had hooked perhaps a log and it wasn't coming back. I tried roll casting it off but I had set the hook into this keeper too well. Sadly I broke it off. No big deal I thought nonconvincingly. I'll try one of my grass shrimp patterns that I've thought about all winter....they're hungry and biting. No luck on multiple casts. I tried a small gummy minnow with similar luck despite droppping into a swirl or two.(I actually never have much luck with gummies, I think they catch more fishermen than fish and certainly don't outfish standard clousers and deceivers.)Next a small popper, and a similar but larger 3.5inch chartreuse deceiver and the party was over despite fish around me. Maybe I'll take the boat out tomorrow....I'll pack some bananas. <like href="http://www.noreast.com/postedreports/view.cfm?id=65279" send="false" show_faces="false" width='layout="button_count"'></like> |
