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namfos
Sep 10, 2019, 9:06:14 AM9/10/19
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Jeffrey Silvan
Sep 10, 2019, 11:05:43 AM9/10/19
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I was in a pile of striped bass nearly as thick one time back when I lived on Cape Cod. Every fish was at least 30 inches, and most pushed 40 plus. My buddy and I were on his 14 ft Boston Whaler, and it was back when I nearly never fished saltwater on the fly (we're all young and dumb at some point). Nonetheless, I still had my only fly rod with me, a 6 weight. We were using our spinning rods and over an hour of sitting there, we only managed one fish between both of us which I pulled in on a slug-go. Frustrated, I picked up my fly rod and tied on a sand eel pattern while my buddy made fun of me and said it would never work. Needless to say, I couldn't cast without getting hit, and after my 6th or 7th on consecutive casts, my buddy was begging me for a turn on the fly rod. Of course, I playfully refused to let him use the technique that wouldn't work, but after my next fish, we traded off for the next couple hours until we were exhausted.
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Nedak
Sep 10, 2019, 2:32:38 PM9/10/19
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Was going to post a report but the best striper fishing for me was last weekend in the Miles River. It was a quantity vs quality bite. Buddy has a boat, we were out on the Miles River just north of St. Micheals when we spotted some bird activity. We positioned the boat about 100 yards in front and it was game on with 14-18 schoolies. They were popping on the surface. Caught a bunch on a clouser then switched to the popper. The action was fast and furious, we chased them for about 45 mins and lost track after about 20 fish between us. We found another school of smaller guys near the shore but they were smaller. .
No time for pics as we were releasing as fast as we could to get the fly and lures back in to the water.
Fun stuff on light tackle even if the size was small.
On Tuesday, September 10, 2019 at 11:05:43 AM UTC-4, Jeff Silvan wrote:
I was in a pile of striped bass nearly as thick one time back when I lived on Cape Cod. Every fish was at least 30 inches, and most pushed 40 plus. My buddy and I were on his 14 ft Boston Whaler, and it was back when I nearly never fished saltwater on the fly (we're all young and dumb at some point). Nonetheless, I still had my only fly rod with me, a 6 weight. We were using our spinning rods and over an hour of sitting there, we only managed one fish between both of us which I pulled in on a slug-go. Frustrated, I picked up my fly rod and tied on a sand eel pattern while my buddy made fun of me and said it would never work. Needless to say, I couldn't cast without getting hit, and after my 6th or 7th on consecutive casts, my buddy was begging me for a turn on the fly rod. Of course, I playfully refused to let him use the technique that wouldn't work, but after my next fish, we traded off for the next couple hours until we were exhausted.
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Yambag Nelson
Sep 10, 2019, 2:40:11 PM9/10/19
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Catch a striped up there and they are likely to toss it on the bank.
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