Glen Island & Rye

[Flygal-:)]

Well, thanks all again who hooked me up with a few spots....It made my trip so much better and it will be an annual event now!

First day Kath & I hit Glen Island, it was the day before T-Day and a sizeable low pressure storm was on our heals - I was keeping my fingers crossed for good success.....We made our way around all 105 acers and my fishing bud got a nice 20+ striper that was quite fat.....I helped her land it and before I let it go a bunch of Mexican workers came rushing over to check it out and made hand motions for it to be held up for them to see and when I did the all cheered and clapped - who needs language when we all can appreciate fish?:D

Did not take pics that day....Wind was gusting up to 35 and hail was pelting us when we finally called it quits....With the wind and all the discolored water we used the ugly sticks with a chartreuse softbody 4\" swimming shad .....

Day after T-Day we hit a place called Playland and started on the rocks and round to a lake outlet that’s known for eel population, in fact the Italians can get enough of them and try to scare the stripers and blues away :eek:

Near the outlet is a narrow bay that has rocks on the far side [Oh, would of loved to be on those rocks!] and a beach on our side.....I did print some nautical maps for water depths and found this to be a likely area for stripers to corral and trap bait......Only busting I saw was on the far side off those unreachable rocks.....

As the evening got darker my buddy had lost a number of softbodys......lined her up with a bunker and I was finishing my knot when she started to make the strangest sounds 'Whoooooo' :lol: :lol: :lol:

I took one look at her rod and knew she had a nice fish on......I coached her on the give a take until it was at our feet and I stepped in and lipped this nice 26+ [almost a keeper].
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She was tickled pink! Which is great since she could not catch’em on the fly in Ogunquit.....

Now I will have it know I wanted her to lip her own fish and have a pic taken and she refused....I can’t convince her to do it again since she was blooded by this bow in the spring...
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Between us both we landed only 5 fish and missed just a few strikes. I would gather majority of the school had made it’s way south of us with the little action we had.....I saw no busting bait out in the sound at all and we went by it every day.....

All dressed up with a fish :P - Ruined my shoes :roll: :lol: :lol: :lol: as if I care!
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I tried to get my nephew interested, but kids today have a busy scheduled life and I don’t think he has much interest at the moment....That’s ok, never knew when the illness will strike :wink:

Thanks again!

[Flygal-:)]

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[FlyFishFrostie]

Flygal,

I grew up about 1/2 mile from Playland in Rye (my parents still live there), and that area where Playland Lake flows out into the sound can be good at the right time of year. Glad you hit it at the right time.

As kids many decades ago, we used to catch nice Tautog ("Black Fish") on live fiddler crabs in the spring and fall off of those rocks just offshore of the mouth of the Playland Lake outlet. Also, in years past at least a couple of 60+ lb. stripers (that I know of) have been caught near those rocks, by slow trolling sand worms at night from what I've heard.

For boaters though, that area can be treacherous with its numerous submerged reefs. As a marine patrolman with the Rye Police Department 30 years ago, I pulled a number of stranded boats off of those rocks, so it's best to troll that area slowly with an old wooden or aluminum boat with small outboard motor that if dinged wouldn't cause much heartbreak.

By the way, were you fishing from shore or boat?

[KayakerStan]

Flygal, to bad you didn't catch more fish. With all that rain we had on Thanksgiving Day really shut things down for a couple days. This week it's a whole different story. There's been lot's of stripers all over the place the last 3 days. You and your friend would've had a great time. Well there's always next time. I hope you enjoyed the holiday.

[Flygal-:)]

Frostie we were on shore , sounds and looked like a perfect Kayak fishing spot! I know what ya mean I saw this area druring low tide and could see all the foul areas....

Kayaker, had a blast even though it was slower than I thought it would be....Heck I did not see anyone else catch while we were their.....Oh, will do it again next year for sure..... ;)

[SaltFlyGal]

Glad that you had a chance to fish while you were here. Next year be sure to contact me and we can add a few gals to the trip and make it an outing. I have some crazy fly fishing gal pals and we fish all the holidays. If you are here on New Year's Day you are invited to join us. Might be fresh water, but the trout are hungry too!

[Flygal-:)]

Was reall sorry I could not work somthing out with ya SaltyGal....I'm already planning next T-day......Also if you gals are crazy enough to venture north let me know I'll hook up with ya....We usually have a number of great all gal days on our rivers or venture over to the Maine cost.....

Tight lines ;)