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Newest Fish Tale
 Connecticut: Stripers On The Fly For A Rookie, Finally!
Posted by quicksilver220 on July 28, 2010 (124 reads)
When I first moved to New England I heard people talk of salt water fly fishing. Being from Pennsylvania, I thought that they must be crazy. I was accustomed to fly fishing small streams and ponds. How can this be possible? How do you find the structure where the fish might be holding? We moved away for a few years and upon returning, I began reading more about it on a local fly-fishing site here in CT, but still didn't think much of it. About 3 years ago, my wife had a business trip to Maine and my work schedule allowed me to go as well. I started looking for things to do while she would be at work and ran across Flies and Fins. I started watching the videos and seeing what salt water fly fishing was about - the intensity of fish taking your reel into the backing, the fish busting on the surface - looked awesome and I had to give this a try. My first few attemps were a bust, mainly because this is a whole new game and I had no idea what I was doing. The heavier weight fly rods and line, larger flies, changing tides, so many unfamiliar variables left me more confused than ever. For my birthday this year, I received a great gift - a guided trip with Ryan Sansouncy/ Hush Fishing. I had seen Ryan on Flies and Fins, but had also heard his name many times from people at work, people on other websites, and folks at the local fishing stores. So we
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Saltwater Fly Fishing: Thank God For Plan C
Posted by pete on February 23, 2009 (2866 reads)
Every fishing trip should have a Plan C. On the 3rd Annual
Boating/Orvis/Flies and
Fins Bluefin Tuna Trip, ours saved the day. What has become one of my favorite trips of the year started three seasons ago when Jeremy and I exchanged emails about trying to catch bluefin tuna on fly. My brother and I trailered a boat up to Rhode Island to meet Jeremy, who had done all the advance scouting. He also recruited
Tom Rosenbauer of
Orvis to join us along with
Mike Warecke, a fly guide out of Connecticut who's dialed in to the tuna game. That year we struck gold. Longtime Flies and Fins readers will remember Jeremy's
awesome footage.
This year the fleet expanded to three boats as Alex from Argentina, RhodieFlyGuy
(Matt), and Enrico Puglisi joined in. We tried to time it to when the school bluefin might show up. They never did. But Jeremy, Tom, Alex, and Rhodie had done some scouting and were on the trail of some erratic bonito. They'd bagged one or two prior to the trip and it seemed like the boneheads would go off. They became plan A.
My brother and I took a four hour boat ride from New York City to meet up with the crew chasing bonito around Block Island. We immediately ran into a pod of bonito just out of casting range of our boat. Of course, they went down before we could cast. That was the last
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Steelhead Fly Fishing: Michigan Is In The House!
Posted by colehatch on November 15, 2007 (2089 reads)
I love having Monday's off because I generally have the river all to myself. Due to lack of time I decided to walk in today instead of float. The drizzly, foggy drive down certainly had me thinking it was going to be a productive day. The sky was just begining to show light as I made the 15 minute walk into where I was going to fish. My plan was to methodically work 3 different holes depending on time. I stayed in the first hole for about an hour without even a bump. I adjusted my float for a little more depth and on the next cast it went down. I lifted and it was hung on something. It ended up breaking off and when I went to rerig I realized I didn't have a lanyard on...no nippers. I found an old cigar cutter in my rain jacket and was able to get by with that...not well but it worked in a pinch. I thought to myself, "is this the way the day is going to go?"
I decided some new scenery was in order so I moved up river into hole number 2 and fished about an hour without a hit. Those thoughts started wandering into my head, "am I ever going to catch anything again?" Just as I was thinking about heading down to hole number 3 I saw a massive steelhead peel back out of a hole just above where I was fishing. I figured I'd try changing up flies and keep working this spot. While I'm in the river standing completely still changing flies I hear a wooshing sound getting progressively louder. I had my hood up so my side vision wasn't real good. I turn and look up river and a bald eagle comes flying out of the fog/mist within 10 feet right over my head. It was an awesome site and of course it happened so quick I wasn't able to get a pic. I figured even if I didn't catch anything that was
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