St. Andrews - 06/08/07 “My Redfish cherry was poppedâ€
Posted: June 8th, 2007, 8:33 pm
After cutting the grass Thursday evening, I spent the rest of the evening tying up some flies that I was going to try out Sunday with Barhopr. The whole time I’m tying them I wanted to run out the door and try them, that moment in the dark, I didn’t but I wanted too.
I woke up Friday morning and got ready for my day at the rock pile…got to work noticed the wind was not blowing…checked NOAA…5-10 knots….Hmmmm…By 10:00 I was out the door and heading to the house to get the Ghostrider.
Slide the boat into the bay and headed west…NOAA’s forecast was right I guess it was blowing at least 10 knots maybe more
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I pull up to a bank and get the trolling motor down, move the cooler to the bow, get my stripping basket, fly rod and climb up on my perch. I start casting to work out my normal bugs and to get use to the wind. Ended up having to side cast cause the wind was blowing so hard, but I was determined to stick with it today, come hell or high water I was gonna try a fly at a redfish.
It didn’t take long for me to see the familiar reddish tone sliding across the bottom…I made a cast and the fish followed the fly…I was about to wet my pants…fish turned off…dam I love this stuff.
It wasn’t long before I see another fish and had the same turn off, no interest…so I try a white and pink version of the same fly (DJ’s Lil Red Surprise by Capt. Dave Sutton)…I find another fish and the same thing happens…Hmmmm…Dig into the fly box and find a #6 toad with a craft fur tail, that I had tied up…let’s try it on the bottom.
I get back on the perch and throw to a few fish, I wasn’t doing to well on my casting, but I was getting after them…I see a double off the grass line….I throw the toad about 18â€
I woke up Friday morning and got ready for my day at the rock pile…got to work noticed the wind was not blowing…checked NOAA…5-10 knots….Hmmmm…By 10:00 I was out the door and heading to the house to get the Ghostrider.
Slide the boat into the bay and headed west…NOAA’s forecast was right I guess it was blowing at least 10 knots maybe more
.I pull up to a bank and get the trolling motor down, move the cooler to the bow, get my stripping basket, fly rod and climb up on my perch. I start casting to work out my normal bugs and to get use to the wind. Ended up having to side cast cause the wind was blowing so hard, but I was determined to stick with it today, come hell or high water I was gonna try a fly at a redfish.
It didn’t take long for me to see the familiar reddish tone sliding across the bottom…I made a cast and the fish followed the fly…I was about to wet my pants…fish turned off…dam I love this stuff.
It wasn’t long before I see another fish and had the same turn off, no interest…so I try a white and pink version of the same fly (DJ’s Lil Red Surprise by Capt. Dave Sutton)…I find another fish and the same thing happens…Hmmmm…Dig into the fly box and find a #6 toad with a craft fur tail, that I had tied up…let’s try it on the bottom.
I get back on the perch and throw to a few fish, I wasn’t doing to well on my casting, but I was getting after them…I see a double off the grass line….I throw the toad about 18â€
