Waiting to Cast
Posted on November 5th, 2008
Tagged: fall run, no results makes me ornery, striped bass, stripers
Tagged: fall run, no results makes me ornery, striped bass, stripers
Will I meet more of your kin in November? I’d like to better know one of your big fat aunts in the piscatorial sense. (The bad bitches better show.)
Tagged: cold wet happy, fall run, fish until Christmas, striped bass
Some shaky footage from fishing for false albacore last week. [UPDATE: Reloaded the video after trying to take some of the shakiness out. It was making me sick.] [NOTE: For everyone asking, the rod is a Helios prototype, which is why it has a different reel seat and coloration than what’s in production. And, yes, that is floating line. I had on full sink, but when I hooked my first one the line didn’t clear properly and I got a ridiculous bird’s nest pulled tight by a fleeing albie. I didn’t want to miss out while untangling, so I switched out to the floating–all I had–super quick just to get a fly in the mix. Normally I use full sink. The backing is gel…
Tagged: albies, fall run, false albacore, fishing, fly reel, fly rod, long island
Tagged: bluefish, fall run, false albacore, flies, new york, striped bass
When I woke with the morning’s sunrise, the outdoor thermometer read 61 degrees. The dead season is almost over. All the little gits that cut you off at the local break will be back in school. Boats pulling tubers through prime topwater bust locations will disappear. Jet skis will decline precipitously. This is our time*. We just need the fish to hold up their end of the bargain. Come on, predators, show us what you got. *With the exception of sailors and their fall races, which don’t really bother anything anyhow.
Tagged: anticipation, bluefish, delirium, fall blitz, fall run, false albacore, peanut bunker, striped bass
Indian Summer continues in the Northeast, as does the practice of chasing bluefish around Long Island Sound. These fish get a bad rap–some people go as far as to disdain them–but it’s hard to beat the visual electricity that occurs when twitching a popper through a bluefish frenzy. For those who say it’s easy, so’s playing a three-chord progression on an acoustic guitar, but it’s still pleasing to the ear. And you still have to find them. My buddy and I ran point to point and into the backs of bays in search of them. Look for signs of life, I said, until it occurred to me that we were really looking for signs of mean. Find the life–the nervous water–and then look for the mean–pops…
Tagged: fall run, Fly Fishing