Fuckin lyin flyin & highin...Fishermen are all fvckin liars. Myself included. Some lie more than others. Keenfish and QSurf come to mind.
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Fuckin lyin flyin & highin...Fishermen are all fvckin liars. Myself included. Some lie more than others. Keenfish and QSurf come to mind.
Yes, also called summer flounder at least in the NEfluke?
they flatfish?
You get them right in the wash, also I was using a sinking line and weighted fly to get it under the wave action.On a fly? That’s cool. Generally a bottom feeder do you use a sinking fly of some sort? Forgive my ignorance I’ve only fly fished a few times, 30 years ago near telluride. Never knew you could go after fluke on a fly rod
I went in my friend's boat yesterday and caught one fish off of San Onofree.From what I can tell Southern California sounds very heavily pressured and isn't as rewarding for shore-bound anglers as Florida.
Every once in a while they pop up on c-list for a decent price like 2k or so but it's still a lot of dough and like you I'm not sure I'd use it enough to justify the cost. I'd only be able to use it on smaller, calm days and those are often surf days. I might just get something smaller and lighter weight that I can carry down a trail by myself because there are some rad spots about 20 min away that no one fishes because of access. There are these sea caves that you can only access from the ocean side but on a calm day you can go in there and slay the fish. I know they are loaded because an older friend of mine, one of the local fishing gurus told me about them. He always gave me the hot tips and never steered me wrong (RIP).^^ Just tested/demoed a few of the Hobie fishing kayaks. Tested them in a river though, not the ocean. Talked to a guy with one that came in, said the peddle option is amazing, and talked to another guy who said too expensive. Those things are like Cadillacs, so smooth and easy to steer and freaking $$$! 3K for the awesome, loaded, not even top of the line kayak. It would be t!ts, but doubt I would use it enough. Ocean trips would be a combo of time to do it + calm conditions. Lakes and river would see more action, but could make do with arm paddling probably.
Buddy of mine is a Hobie dealer. He's got a Hobie peddle powered boat in his showroom that is $4,800 plus tax without the trailer you need to haul the darned thing. I lifted one end of it and its heavy. Definitely need to trailer this thing like a boat. At that point, why wouldn't you just buy a boat off of craigslist?^^ Just tested/demoed a few of the Hobie fishing kayaks. Tested them in a river though, not the ocean. Talked to a guy with one that came in, said the peddle option is amazing, and talked to another guy who said too expensive. Those things are like Cadillacs, so smooth and easy to steer and freaking $$$! 3K for the awesome, loaded, not even top of the line kayak. It would be t!ts, but doubt I would use it enough. Ocean trips would be a combo of time to do it + calm conditions. Lakes and river would see more action, but could make do with arm paddling probably.
You fish any freshwater, always wanted to tangle with those Florida largemouth on the flyrod.Went up the street after the afternoon rain. Browned out and lost internet so it was a pretty deece one.
Got a small jack to hit the silver kastmaster, had him in ankle deep water and almost lost an eye after he shook off. Swear something was following him, thought I saw a big push that wasn't from him. Missed another small fish or two on the spoon. Saw a tarpon, threw on mirrodine, no dice. Switched to a pink jig with a sandflea fishbites - lots of sand fleas (mole crabs) of late here. Got some hits but not much, then got a flounder to eat. First one I've ever caught in the surf. Got tired of jig and finished off with mirromullet surface walker. Didn't expect anything but saw what I am almost positive was a small trout missing it short, then got hit pretty good up top shallow, wound up being a slightly overslot fish, probably the biggest one I've got in the surf.
Definitely the worst photography ever, but I don't like to handle fish I'm releasing much, light was pretty low, yet shitloads of people on beach and I could see them stopping and just didn't want to get hassled.
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I don't make enough of an effort lately; all the easy access I have is to salt. My mom used to live in a development where you could fish in the ponds and I caught quite a few bass in there, also got my only tarpon hookup on fly above panfish-size. I've been meaning to try to figure out shore access to largemouth, sunshine, and striper.You fish any freshwater, always wanted to tangle with those Florida largemouth on the flyrod.