shallowist
September 22nd, 2011, 08:51 AM
Spent the day on the water yesterday with Marcos Enriquez and Tobin from Trout Support. We had near perfect conditions early, with very light North and Northeast winds. Water clarity was good in most areas to slightly dirty in others. I ran the boat up on the first flat and immediately spooked two reds. It was a slow start, with low light and no tails, but got progressively better as the day wore on. We started seeing singles and picking them off at close range on a new shrimp fly I have been perfecting. As the light got better we started seeing some muds and then several pods of tailing fish. We got some great footage of tails, pods, cruising fish, and even a couple of backs out of the water. Landed 9 or 10 total reds on fly and even a trout to top it off.
Looking forward to seeing the edited video footage, there should be some very cool shots of the fish eating. Had them pretty fired up about about a seaducer. I think we got 3 separate reds that exploded on the fly as it came over them! Three different times during the morning I poled the boat up to within 15-20 feet of schools of tailing fish, then let Marcos give them a slight stinging sesation. The only thing missing was the laid up fish and the truly flagging tailers that Ihad been seeing. I had to cut out early and we quit fishing at 2. Would have been nice to finish out the afternoon when the tide really got low. We also got a chance to demonstrate some fly casting in the wind, as it picked up to near 20 by late morning.
Thanks again for letting me help Tobin! Can't wait to see what we filmed.
Sorry no Pics, but I let Tobin do all the filming and picture taking today. :)
Captain Steve
Looking forward to seeing the edited video footage, there should be some very cool shots of the fish eating. Had them pretty fired up about about a seaducer. I think we got 3 separate reds that exploded on the fly as it came over them! Three different times during the morning I poled the boat up to within 15-20 feet of schools of tailing fish, then let Marcos give them a slight stinging sesation. The only thing missing was the laid up fish and the truly flagging tailers that Ihad been seeing. I had to cut out early and we quit fishing at 2. Would have been nice to finish out the afternoon when the tide really got low. We also got a chance to demonstrate some fly casting in the wind, as it picked up to near 20 by late morning.
Thanks again for letting me help Tobin! Can't wait to see what we filmed.
Sorry no Pics, but I let Tobin do all the filming and picture taking today. :)
Captain Steve