Jereme – what was the leader length you use? Size X0?
Richard
From: tidal-potomac-fly-rodders@googlegroups.com [mailto:tidal-potomac-fly-rodders@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jereme Thaxton
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 4:02 PM
To: tidal-potomac-fly-rodders@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: {Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} A Good Day Striper Fishing
Yep, used the Hero 2, I have a few that I take with me on my video shoots and they worked great for recording a fishing trip as well. It rained a good part of yesterday so I appreciate that they are waterproof!
And, as Lane mentioned, the half and half is just the addition of a hackle to a clouser to make it longer, I wanted about 6 inches and couldn't get it with a normal bucktail.
-Jereme
On Apr 19, 2012, at 9:33 AM, Richard Lin wrote:
Oh….my my my……I wished that I was in the picture and hold the huge striper bass. Maybe I can do it in Photoshop. The pictures are AWESOME! Hopeful I can catch first striper this year!
I looked up the flies on Internet and It is hard to say the different between Half and Half vs. deceivers vs. clouser? Can you or somebody explain the different?
GoPro – Hero2 or Hero you used?
Richard
From: tidal-potomac-fly-rodders@googlegroups.com [mailto:tidal-potomac-fly-rodders@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jereme Thaxton
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 1:37 AM
To: tidal-potomac-fly-rodders@googlegroups.com
Subject: {Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} A Good Day Striper Fishing
With spring in full swing, a couple weeks ago I got the urge to do some striper fishing and I wanted to check out the Susquehanna Flats. So, I tried to soak up as much fly shop knowledge, including talking to Captain Russ Wilkinson (a well known fly/light tackle guide) about streamer patterns and notorious striper hideouts. With all the kayak chatter, I also recently picked up a new inflatable kayak and so I was wanting to take that out for a spin as well. I was starting to realize that a sit on top or inflatable kayak was more stable and safe than my hard boat (even with a spray skirt). So, due to my limited space I opted for the Advanced Elements Straightedge inflatable, it will track in flatwater and handle class III's so I was pretty excited about it's versatility.
Russ's input was spot on, he gave me a couple locations as a starting point and then from there I was able to get in the general location to find the fish. Launched the kayak this morning about 6:30 AM and pulled it off about 5:30 PM, landed 34 stripers total, six were in the 27-35 inch range and the majority in the 17-24 inch range (the 35 incher is the last photo). A six inch blue/white half and half was my favorite, and Russ mentioned bunker patterns are also popular as well. Another angler on the water had success on olive/white deceivers. Depth was aprox. 7-10 feet, and I liked to strip it deep and fast.
A lot of the guys in the saltwater boats using conventional tackle would come by and ask what I was doing special, I was like 'start using a fly rod and fish from a yak!' Seriously though, I am on cloud 9 right now and feel pretty lucky as I met some guys who didn't catch a fish, I didn't either the day before. To me there is something special about catching big fish on a hand-tied fly, a home-made rod and out of a simple object like a kayak. I can't wait to do it again but I will need a couple days to recover as it took a lot out of me.
-Jereme
PS, just to head off any speculation, the fish were out of the water at most a couple seconds for the photos, thanks to my GoPro I was able to do it pretty quickly in order to get them back into the water unharmed. These are spawning fish so I tried to keep that in mind when handling them and urge others to do so as well.
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