I had a pretty good year overall. My goal for 2016 was to catch a permit on the fly and I was sort of successful in that. It wasn't a big one but I guess a permit is a permit. But here is my summary:
Spring: Started the year off with a trip to the southern Yucatan at Costa de Cocos. Had an awesome trip with tons of bones, a nice snook, as well as hooking three permit. Of course the two big ones got away but I did land the one attached.
Spent the rest of April/early may fishing around fletchers. Really focused on catching Americans and was pretty successful doing so, although it was at the expense of numbers/hickories.
Summer: In June I spent 4 days on the Battenkill and caught a lot of fish. A couple of nice brook trout but way too many stocked browns. New York State's management of that river is disappointing to say the least. But it was a nice trip on a great river.
I was in Europe most of July and August was too hot to fish but I did get out for stripers a couple times at dark.
Fall: September I went to Hayward Wisconsin to fish for Musky and had a great trip. In two days I moved 9 musky, hooking four and landing two. Musky fishing is addictive. The rest of the fall was spent fishing at night for stripers. Overall the striper fishing was not great for me this year. I did catch decent numbers of fish a few times, but did not find anywhere near as many larger fish as last year.
November I was back in NY steelhead fishing for several days and did not do well. Water was extremely low and I only hooked a couple of fish.
So far the calendar for 2017 has a trip to the keys in May for tarpon, a trip to Quebec for Atlantic Salmon on the Grand Cascapedia, Washington State in August and that is it. Goal is to spend more time fishing Virginia, something I have ignored the last couple of years.
http://www.tpfr.org
---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tidal-potomac-fly-rodders+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
To post to this group, send email to tidal-potomac-fly-rodders@googlegroups.com.
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tidal-potomac-fly-rodders/f48f7aa0-c774-40ea-8167-24e71bb39f38%40googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
0 comments:
Post a Comment