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Salt Water Big Hog Caught By A Little Guy With A Fly
Posted by dan-l on December 31, 2004

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It was August 2003, I had been telling my 9 year old nephew I would take him striper fishing, but the days never seemed to work out. Finally I was able to twist my sisters arm and get him out in my boat. Now, up to this point he had never been saltwater fishing, so he had no idea what to expect, other than me telling him I had been catching stripers longer than him. We got to the boat launch early, and got the boat right in. Within 15 minutes we were both fighting schoolie stripers on spinning outfits, one after another. We stayed there for almost and hour, I couldn’t bring myself to leave seeing he was having the time of his

life, but the tide was perfect, and we needed to get to one of my spots where we can usually bring a monster to the boat. I set up my fly rod while he continued to catch the small stuff. With everything ready to go, I asked him if he was ready to try and catch a striper as tall as him, and with a big smile on his face, he said “You better believe it, I already caught more fish than you today”…Hmmm, he was right, and I was happy. We took the 30minute boat ride and I marked fish right away. He was throwing a 10inch power eel with ½ oz. Jig head, and I started throwing the fly, we fished almost an hour without a hit. Which was quite disappointing, because we could see the fish swimming in front of us. I had thrown just about every fly I had in my box and my nephew started asking if we could go back to the first spot and catch more fish. I looked in my other fly box and realized I had 2 flies that my nephew bought me for my birthday back in April, but I had never thrown them. So I tell him we will head back to the first spot after I try out the 2 flies he gave me. On the first cast I get a strike, and we see a large boil in the water, it was a good one. My nephew jumps up and grabs his spinning rod, but doesn’t cast, he waits a minute and asks if I would cast my fly out for him and he could retrieve it, How do you say no to that, I let out a pretty good cast and hand him the rod, he had watched me for over an hour cast and retrieve, and I was amazed at what I saw, my nine year old nephew stripping line like a pro, then WHAMMMM, a big fish takes the fly and starts a very fast run with the current, to this day I don’t know how the line didn’t tangle seeing it was all in the bottom of my boat but it didn’t. With all the fly line out, and the backing going out, I about had a heart attack. My nephew screaming for me to take the rod back because he couldn’t do it, I started coaching him, changed the drag a bit, got him settled, and he pumped that fish for at least 25 minutes. When the battle was over my nephew caught a 47inch striper on a fly rod, I am not sure what it weighed but it was a hog. We sat there for a second looking at the fish, it was 1inch shorted than him, he then decided we would let it go, he said it was too big to take home. I thought that was the best, he knew we should let it go. We both assisted in releasing the fish, and it swam away strong after quite a few minutes of reviving. The rest of the day I didn’t have a care in the world, we got into more small stripers on the fly rod, and he pulled them in. To this day he is my best fishing partner, we go out together quite often, but he has yet to catch another striper that big. Something in my life changed that day, that day brought my nephew and myself together with a bond that will never be broken. When ever things in life are not going my way I just think of that day back in August 2003 and my worries go away.



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Re: Big Hog Caught By A Little Guy With A Fly
by jeremy on December 31, 2004 http://www.ineedasimplesolution.com
Great Story DAN! Nothing really satisfies the soul like helping the youngsters catch fish. ESPECIALLy a fish like that. That is a really cool story. Can you help me catch A 47" striper next season????


 
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