Tagged: fall run, flies in lips, sandpaper thumbs, striped bass, stripers, sunset cliche
Posts tagged “stripers”
Tosh Brown and I have been working on making an idea for a book project a reality. A “large format pictorial on fly-fishing the Northeast coast” won’t work without large format-worthy pictures. So we’re blasting our way through some of the fall run this week. We’re in the middle of fishing around New York Metro and surrounding salt, with Tosh working the lens.
Tagged: books, Departure Publishing, fall run, real photographers, striped bass, stripers
The anti Slab.
Tagged: fall run, night fishing, striped bass, stripers
Unfortunately, they don’t like me. The fall of catching little rats continues unabated. (My biggest tonight could have hid inside a Pringles can.) Either way, everyone who owns a dock anywhere should be required by law to host a fish light on it.
Tagged: fall run, night fishing, striped bass, stripers
Tagged: fall run, no results makes me ornery, striped bass, stripers
Legendary East End guide Paul Dixon takes the Top Chef sight fishing for skinny water bass.
Tagged: Hamptons, Montauk, Paul Dixon, saltwater fly fishing, striped bass, stripers, The Fin
Through a confluence of developments having little to do with me, I wound up hosting Tom Rosenbauer and Enrico Puglisi on my boat during part of the 2008 Flies and Fins Rhode Island trip. A hack like me can take away a lot by watching a top technician and tyer work together to catch fish. We hit a spot where striped bass were popping bait on the surface along the edge of a rip. Rosenbauer decided to switch out to floating line and tie on a gurgler to watch the topwater takes. The fish wouldn’t hit. Puglisi reached into his bag and gave Rosenbauer an EP floating minnow, a baitfish pattern with foam flotation subtly tied into it so you can’t see it without…
