Saltwater Fly Fishing

Tarpon Fly Selection

Apr 29th, 1998 | By admin | Category: Saltwater Fly Fishing, Tarpon

 
At the risk of sounding simplistic, tarpon fishing is as easy as it gets. Knocking it down to basic components, you place the fly in front of a fish and keep it there until he eats or refuses it. Plus, tarpon are so predictable that in some areas, I know within five or ten feet [...]




How to Fly Fish for Striped Bass in the Whitewater

Apr 24th, 1998 | By admin | Category: Articles, Saltwater Fly Fishing, Striped Bass

It’s not for the faint of heart, this fishing, but the rewards are worth it. Picture this: you’re standing in the bow of a center console 50 feet away from the face of rocky edifice rising out of the Atlantic. Swells are rolling in from the open ocean, lifting you high in the air and [...]




How to Fly Fish for Striped Bass in the Rips

Apr 24th, 1998 | By admin | Category: Articles, Saltwater Fly Fishing, Striped Bass

 
Anyone the least bit familiar with striped bass knows about the creature’s propensity for hanging out in rips. Not only do rips concentrate the bass, they also hold some of the biggest fish. To understand why stripers are attracted to rips it helps to know a little bit about how they are formed. Rips occur [...]




Do It Yourself Fly Fishing for Bonefish in the Florida Keys

May 1st, 1997 | By admin | Category: Bonefish, Saltwater Fly Fishing

“There’s a tailer at one o’clock, about 120 feet out!” Ken and Eldon Shannon were experiencing their first taste of bonefishing, and I wanted it to be a success. I began poling the boat as quickly and quietly as I could through the crystal-clear water toward the feeding bonefish, keeping an eye out for others [...]




How to Fly Fish for Tarpon on the Beaches of Southwest Florida

Apr 29th, 1997 | By admin | Category: Saltwater Fly Fishing, Tarpon

The skiff floated on a gently rolling sea. Early morning light reflected off the waves, and from the backs of the tarpon that rolled sporadically throughout the area. Barry Kent couldn’t wait for a specific target and cast blindly, hoping for the best.
Suddenly he said, “I’m on, John!” He set the hook repeatedly (shouting nothing [...]




Your Guide to Fly Fishing for Bonefish Around the Globe

May 1st, 1996 | By admin | Category: Bonefish, Saltwater Fly Fishing

Anticipation is one of the most powerful sensations in angling. In clear-water flats fishing, the greatest thrill comes in the instance between when the fish is spotted, and the presentation is taken or refused. The combination of visual drama and tactile electricity between angler and quarry truly gets the heart pumping!
More so than any other [...]




How to Fly Fish for False Albacore

Aug 29th, 1995 | By admin | Category: False Albacore, Saltwater Fly Fishing

Several years ago, October found me drifting over Napatree Point in Watch Hill, Rhode Island, hoping to find one of the stripers that frequent this rocky point. As I imagined the falling tide washing my eel pattern along, making it pulse beneath a heavy Teeny line, I was just getting oriented when BANG!! I was [...]




Springtime Bluefish on the Fly Rod

May 15th, 1995 | By admin | Category: Bluefish, Saltwater Fly Fishing

I changed my shooting head yesterday and practiced booming out some casts in the yard with the floating line, practicing for the bluefish prowling the flats of Oregon Beach here in Cotuit.
The bluefish are a week late this year. It has been a cold May and everything from the lilacs to the barn swallows are [...]




INSHORE TUNA TACTICS: Fly Fishing for Bonito and False Albacore

May 1st, 1995 | By admin | Category: False Albacore, Saltwater Fly Fishing

Had it been mere mayhem I might have been able to cope a little better, but this was something different. Two schools of sand eels had been corralled on either side of our boat and were being decimated by heat-seeking, eel-eating, supersonic, drag-burnin g, bonito and false albacore which attacked as if with personal vendettas. [...]