Page Rogers'
Saltwater Classics

	I developed the tiny slider, the Slim Jim, a number of years ago to imitate floating sand eels, silversides and anchovies. Fly rodders have successfully used the fly to take picky bass slurping small baitfish and worms in the surface film. But last year, word got back to me that a local guide, Mike Roback, had his clients nailing albies in the fast-moving water on the Watch Hill reefs, by dead-drifting and lightly "twitching" Slim Jims. I was incredulous, but...
	Ed Lepore, fondly known on Martha’s Vineyard as "Bonito Eddie," lives to fish and spends hours with his good friend Don MacGillivray plying the waters of Middle Ground, West Chop and the North Shore for huge bass. But when the water warms to that magic temperature of 68 degrees, Ed leaves his bass tackle on shore and begins to hunt for his favorite quarry, the Atlantic bonito (Sarda sarda). Ed developed this fly after a timeless old Vineyard classic, the Bonito Bandit.
	The Golden Angel is a fly developed by Greg Nault of Hunters Angling Supplies in New Boston, New Hampshire. Greg is a fly tier and shore guide who regularly makes trips to the waters of Nantucket and Vineyard Sounds. This fly was developed after Greg landed an Atlantic Bonito near Waquoit, and the fish regurgitated a mouthful of index finger sized bay anchovies.
Clouser Minnow	Lefty's Deceiver
Bonito Bunny	Argentine Blonde
Rogers' Big Eye Baitfish- Herring	Menemsha Minnow
The Rhody ‘Chovy	Page's Sandeel

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