ppatricelli
06-26-2007, 11:38 PM
FISHING REPORT FROM THE WEEK OF THE PATRICELLI INVITATIONAL 2007
Just newly back home in Eugene and semi-jet-lag-adjusted, licking my wounds from 12 days of hard fishing, one broken rod and two burnt out reels, finishing up the accounting and paperwork. Whew! What a trip!
And before everyone starts complimenting me on the photography, I must say I took almost NONE of these pictures. Everyone has a digital camera these days and several guides know how to use them very well. And Loren Irving, a REAL photographer from Bend, OR making his first trip out to the east coast for his first ever striper, blue, whatever else, showed how interesting it is to see what strikes the fancy of a first-timer.
It started with Bill Logan and I arriving and fishing an outer cape beach on the 13th. I got a fish on my first cast! Premonition or what! We got 15 or so schoolies each in the 2 hours preceding low tide. The next day we got there earlier in the afternoon and did eve better, about 25 fish apiece, but still nothing over 25”.
The next morning we had reinforcements in the form of Frank Cammack and Loren Irving from Bend, OR and Larry Steiner from Portland, OR. They lagged behind us to the beach by a few minutes and when they topped the dune they saw Logan and I with our third straight double on in 3 straight casts. It went from there to 4/5 hookups almost constantly as the tide drove us back onto the sand beach and dunes. Even thru high slack the action barely slowed. There was one keeper C&R’d by Steiner, several others lost. In the midst of the hottest action my 25 yr old Lamson went free-spool, bird nested, drove me to the car for a replacement with a difficult fast sinking line. The interruption probably cost me 10 fish. Final tally was between 50 and 90 per person and the worse case of striper thumb, ever.
http://www.callatg.com/~mfp/aaa1.jpg
http://www.callatg.com/~mfp/aaa2.jpg
http://www.callatg.com/~mfp/aaa3.jpg
http://www.callatg.com/~mfp/aaa4.jpg
http://www.callatg.com/~mfp/aaa5.jpg
http://www.callatg.com/~mfp/aaa6.jpg
http://www.callatg.com/~mfp/aaa7.jpg
http://www.callatg.com/~mfp/aaa8.jpg
http://www.callatg.com/~mfp/aaa9.jpg
Just newly back home in Eugene and semi-jet-lag-adjusted, licking my wounds from 12 days of hard fishing, one broken rod and two burnt out reels, finishing up the accounting and paperwork. Whew! What a trip!
And before everyone starts complimenting me on the photography, I must say I took almost NONE of these pictures. Everyone has a digital camera these days and several guides know how to use them very well. And Loren Irving, a REAL photographer from Bend, OR making his first trip out to the east coast for his first ever striper, blue, whatever else, showed how interesting it is to see what strikes the fancy of a first-timer.
It started with Bill Logan and I arriving and fishing an outer cape beach on the 13th. I got a fish on my first cast! Premonition or what! We got 15 or so schoolies each in the 2 hours preceding low tide. The next day we got there earlier in the afternoon and did eve better, about 25 fish apiece, but still nothing over 25”.
The next morning we had reinforcements in the form of Frank Cammack and Loren Irving from Bend, OR and Larry Steiner from Portland, OR. They lagged behind us to the beach by a few minutes and when they topped the dune they saw Logan and I with our third straight double on in 3 straight casts. It went from there to 4/5 hookups almost constantly as the tide drove us back onto the sand beach and dunes. Even thru high slack the action barely slowed. There was one keeper C&R’d by Steiner, several others lost. In the midst of the hottest action my 25 yr old Lamson went free-spool, bird nested, drove me to the car for a replacement with a difficult fast sinking line. The interruption probably cost me 10 fish. Final tally was between 50 and 90 per person and the worse case of striper thumb, ever.
http://www.callatg.com/~mfp/aaa1.jpg
http://www.callatg.com/~mfp/aaa2.jpg
http://www.callatg.com/~mfp/aaa3.jpg
http://www.callatg.com/~mfp/aaa4.jpg
http://www.callatg.com/~mfp/aaa5.jpg
http://www.callatg.com/~mfp/aaa6.jpg
http://www.callatg.com/~mfp/aaa7.jpg
http://www.callatg.com/~mfp/aaa8.jpg
http://www.callatg.com/~mfp/aaa9.jpg