{Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Re: Beth first redfish, tough fishing

Cool report, nice drum!  Did you fish with a guide?  If so, do you mind saying who?  Obviously, it was a tough day, but I'd be interested in knowing if you'd recommend him.  I'll be down there from Sept 13-20.

Thanks,

Tom

On Monday, July 28, 2014 8:38:00 PM UTC-4, TurbineBlade wrote:

Hey -- Almost exactly 1 year ago we attempted a trip to NC to cast to redfish and though I managed one small one, I found the skill level for sight-casting with a long leader/heavy fly/wind to be above me and it was a very humbling experience.  Having decided to slay monsters, we made a return trip this past weekend to give it a try again.  On the positive side, Bethy managed a very pretty first redfish with a good "dog walking" on a topwater.  I was really happy to see her get one!  Another huge positive for me was finding that the casting/presentation was much, much easier this year.  I was actually convinced that the prepackaged 10' leader was closer to a 6' leader because it was so much easier to pick up and lay out in the breeze vs. what I recalled very vividly from last year.  It just felt that much different --

The negative side, was that even though we casted to many pushes, schools of 15-30+ reds, solo fish, nervous water, bait scattering, productive points off of oyster beds, etc.  -- we just couldn't draw strikes from the suckers.  I mean, stripping a fly through some of those spots I was ready to strip-strike hard enough to break ribs, but it never came! Even tossing 'go to' surface plugs with spinning tackle (which will apparently often get strikes when no fly will) failed to produce anything until the monster, toilet-flush hit Bethy got in the afternoon right off of the front of the boat.  So it was a very, unusually slow day and other guys fishing flounder, etc. seemed to report similar results.  Weather?  I dunno -- just a tough day. 

So I'm determined to eventually drive down there and have one of those can't-do-wrong days with redfish, but it'll have to wait a bit longer.  I love those fish -- they (to me) look a lot like carp, and they have friendly-looking mouths.  I just think they're neat -- and that's enough. 

The next morning (back in town here) I did manage one NSH which I mentioned in another post.  Win some, lose some.  Beth won, and that's worth a lot ;). 

Gene

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