One of TPFR's core values is simple:
Fish where you are, not where you ain't.
It's easy to spend our time dreaming about Montana, Patagonia, Alaska, or wherever else we'd rather have a fly in the water.
This thread is about appreciating the fishing life that's actually around us.
Show us what that looks like for you.
A fish from your local creek. Your tying desk. A lunch-break fishing mission. The rod that lives in your truck. Your kid's first bluegill. A beautiful stretch of water. A skunked afternoon that was still worth getting outside for. Or just a story about something fishing-related that made your week better.
It doesn't have to be exotic. It doesn't have to be Instagram-worthy. And it definitely doesn't have to involve a trophy fish. But if that's where you were fishing this week, that's cool too!
Show or describe for us how you're living the fishing life wherever you happen to be.
Heres my contribution. I've been very fortunate to spend the weekend at a duck hunting lodge called Jenny Island Hunt Club on the eastern shore of the bay. My in laws won a silent auction and invited us.
The lodge is on 100 acres of prime eastern shore marsh land and is not facing the bay on an island of dry ground reinforced with rip rap. It has a dock with a dock light. I found fish under my feet on the dock and helped my son Teddy (who is 7 now) and my FIL catch rockfish jigging off the dock. I also found some fish on a rock pile on the northern side of the jetty. Best fish was a rockfish somewhere north of 25". I also had a 12" speck on for a hot second but it came off. Im at a dozen fish fishing from the shore! 4" paddle tails on 3/8 oz or 1/2 oz jig heads. I brought a kayak but the wind has been too much to take it out (9+ mph). I also had another session fishing a road culvert with a tiny pink paddle tail (3/16th oz I think). The outlet side had juvenile striped bass, largemouth bass, and white perch which were a blast on the ultralight. The upstream side had a big school of baby speckled trout! So cool to see. But the lack of prey is definitely a huge concern right now. A lot of the fish I've caught are skinny and underfed. The baby specks were voracious perhaps due to lack of prey. The excessive menhaden quotas combined with Omega protein exceeding those quotas for a decade has caused significant harm, if not population crash, to the menhaden, and these fish rely on that prey species. So that's a bummer.
Head over to my Instagram (@districtflyfishing) for the pictures.
Beer tie @ Courthaus Social, Monday October 12th, 7 pm.
Misha Gill
http://www.tpfr.org
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