Luyen’s Reel-Time FLog

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WSW winds swinging around to northerly winds – beautiful weather, despite hot haze, fog, and high temps…. Thorne and I headed out to the rips, despite the new flats that were created as a result of the new cut through the outer beach. We spotted several fish working the rips, despite the neap tide.

I boated a huge 36” bass on a squid fly. Thorne caught another big fish of similar size. We croaked my fish, and headed out the next day for some similar action. Thorne boated another big fish on day two, after several hours of intense frustration. On Saturday night, I hooked a nice fish right in front of the Sparkman compound on a big popper, casting to popping sounds off their beach.

Mid-70’s air temps, seasonal flows over Passover weekend.  Hit the first pool at Berry’s Bridge.  Fish holding in the usual spots, just subtly dimpling the surface. Fish were highly selective and unresponsive to the usual offerings.  Switched to a homebrewed #18 rabbit foot, gold tinsel emerger, and despite a cast out of the feeding lane, caught a big 15” brown, which greyhounded left-to-right to take the fly.

Fathers Day weekend was hot and humid, with the stream running low and clear.  Virtually no signs of life in the first pool, but some subtle risers in the second pool and in the tail of the flat upstream of the pool.  Again, it was the rabbit foot emerger that elicited a vicious left to right take by a 12” brown that was dimpling the slow current under an overhang on the left side of the pool.  Yet again, the cast was off line, but the fish did not want to let the offering get by.

What a fly!