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I checked it soon after sunrise yesterday and there were way Too many guys chasing knee high wavesyou know it was firing, I had a stomach ache for who knows what reason. Woke up for dawn patrol Wednesday with head high waves and light offshores right down the block, nearly puked up my coffee, went back to bed
Lincoln cam rewind definitely looks better than knee high.I checked it soon after sunrise yesterday and there were way Too many guys chasing knee high waves
Where were the head high waves?
8wt should be able to cast into the wind up to about 15mph. i hate the shorebreak most of all flyfishing the beach.Lincoln cam rewind definitely looks better than knee high.
Lincoln cam right now looks better than Jax Beach. Of course, even if the surf was good, the sky is fucking exploding, and sometimes the sky explosion is reaching down and touching a tree or something, and then that fucking explodes.
Hopefully it stays overcast and super light offshore wind and I can throw fly today at Mayport. Two nights ago I swore I was going to flycast and literally as I'm thinking that the breeze freshened right up. 30 seconds 5wt->8wt-7'6" 10#->9'6" 14#. Decisions made for me.
I wish shorebreak was a problem. Low impact beaches in the Duval. I'm a solid 50 yards out and I don't have a stripping basket. A wave comes every 7 seconds so there's basically no time - your line is knotted around your legs basically as soon as you pull it off the spool. And I get pretty pissed off if I don't catch anything, and having zero structure to target and having to blindly fan cast into 15mph wind with a wave every 7 seconds sounds like a recipe for frustration.8wt should be able to cast into the wind up to about 15mph. i hate the shorebreak most of all flyfishing the beach.
I know the frustration, striping basket is a necessity for me.I wish shorebreak was a problem. Low impact beaches in the Duval. I'm a solid 50 yards out and I don't have a stripping basket. A wave comes every 7 seconds so there's basically no time - your line is knotted around your legs basically as soon as you pull it off the spool. And I get pretty pissed off if I don't catch anything, and having zero structure to target and having to blindly fan cast into 15mph wind with a wave every 7 seconds sounds like a recipe for frustration.
Sometimes I get lucky and there's a rip. Usually there's dick squat.
I know the pics look flat but when you're in thigh deep water a knee high wave is a problem. And it seems like every double up in the Atlantic ocean wedges onto me when I'm fishing.
Also I can't cast into anything remotely resembling 15mph.
That pic made me bust a nut. A frame paradiseHow was it it in your hood?
I was on it at first light in OCMD.
Pretty fun. I got a sick backside barrel.View attachment 136243
I left happy. Been lackluster spring and summer in IB. Cold water. Polluted. Onshore.That pic made me bust a nut. A frame paradise
Fck casting an 8wt into 15mph wind on the beaches.8wt should be able to cast into the wind up to about 15mph. i hate the shorebreak most of all flyfishing the beach.
It'd be different South of the Cape during the mullet run. Tons of the time the fish are right there swimming up out of the trough onto the sand ledge.Fck casting an 8wt into 15mph wind on the beaches.
Down my block. Sand is good there right nowI checked it soon after sunrise yesterday and there were way Too many guys chasing knee high waves
Where were the head high waves?
no kidding - the ocean is broken down here. worst summer in quite a while.Flat as a pancake here in Central NC.
The worst I can remember.no kidding - the ocean is broken down here. worst summer in quite a while.