Breezy

[MarkZ]

In deciding betwixt M and points west I selected Breezy this AM. Having never fished it and with all the positive reports of lil' T's in thick for the past few months I opted for the unfamiliar, and was not disappointed.
@7:30 AM approached the jetty after getting pounded and soaked by the brisk SW all the way there in my 19' I saw birds. From then till noon FA's were spread out and sporadically busting almost the entire time. Saw a real mixed bag of flyguys, spinrods, cabin cruiser run-n-gun googs and even some dude pulling handlines through the busting schools.:confused::eek:--125-3.

Fish were picky, but finally found what they wanted and hooked 8/ landed 7. Weren't puking anything, but I'm assuming 'chovies were the bait de jour. They weren't the 10-14# sub's that are @M, just your run-of-the-mill 6-9# Northeast FA's. Thankfully, yelloweye never showed.

I used the new Bauer Mackenzie SL5 I purchased from my good buddy @Campsite and really liked it, don't think there's another large arbor that can touch it for the price.

[filmfly]

Well today I had it all figured out, show up at 6:00AM go to the tip at Breezy and wait for low tide. It started as planned with a slight west wind that made casting my complete flyline simple. The first "batch" of albies showed at 7:30 AM within 20 feet of the rocks. Made several casts with a rainbait fly, but no takers. About twenty minutes later another band of albies shows and I try again. No runs, no hits. A few spinner guys have arrived by now and are throwing deadly dicks. One guy gets a fish on. Then a really freaky thing happened. The perfect wind from the West turns into the perfect storm from the South! In ten minutes the landscape changed and it became impossible to cast more than five feet into a headwind of 30 MPH. But get this, the wind and tide combined to drive the bait against the point and the albies went beserk. The spin guys were hooking up ON EVERY CAST! Really frustrating for me! Even had a guy offer me his spinning tackle to land one! I left at 11:30 AM and there must have been twenty fish caught. None by me.....

You know what happened this morning was a disapointment for me, but when the wind kicked up and the fish started to go crazy and I saw three guys having the time of their life, I thought THIS is why we do this. Very few people understand this except us. Tight lines.....

Wayne

[Lov2Fish]

Filmfly, I had the same thing happen to me a few weeks ago, go out to the Rockaways, wind was decent, fishing slow, west winds picked up real bad, was about to leave all ****ed off. Soaking wet, then the fish went nuts, Had stripers, blues & Bonito, one after another in giant waves. It was nuts but worth it.