Nice Board Folks!!!!

[salty]

Now lets talk fishing with a capital F. Whose got a whale
of a tale to tell??? What was the luckiest fish you ever
caught??? The ball is in your court people. As the umpire
would say on opening day "Play Ball".

[Sparky]

I had some unbelievable fishing this past weekend in New York City actually. I was fishing with <a href="http://216.46.240.89/guides/captburtis/">Capt Ralph Burtis</a> (he's sponsoring RT this season).

We were fishing with Luyen (seen on this board, he may have already posted this?) too and we put about 12 - 14 bass in the boat between 25 and 30 inches. I had no idea there was striper fishing this early in the year, but Ralph had the whole thing wired. The first bass of the millenium was awesome. I had forgotten how hard some of 'em pull -- I know that sounds like a cliche but its true.

Thanks Ralph!

Anyone else finding some bass around New York? These were definitely ocean fish; they had sea lice all over them.


Thorne Sparkman, Publisher<BR>Reel-Time: the Internet Journal of Saltwater Fly Fishing<BR>http://www.reel-time.com<BR>-- sparky@reel-time.com -

[Luyen]

Let me second that! Great outing with Capt. Ralph. Amazed at the size of the fish this early in the season. Also, more surface activity than I would have thought. Fish ate Clousers, Half-and-Halfs, and Deceivers fished low in the water column.

[Sparky]

What surprised me was no rats. Not a single small fish in the bunch. These were all good sized. Not holdovers. I would have expected the little guys first followed by a slow infusion of bigger fish. At least that is what I thought was the typical pattern for New England.

Thorne