Returned Saturday night after a 14 hour drive trailering Double Happiness and a lifetimes worth of fishing lessons and experiences crammed into one week.
Weather was less than optimal for Monday - Thursday still the team of Bob Pink's Double Happiness and Capt. Terry Nugent of Riptide Charters managed to match or outperform most of the guides on a regular basis.
Bob Pink's first albie on Monday set the bar for the biggest fish pool (taken on a 10" long tuna fly) and was never beat. Although, Buddah on Riptide hooked into an albie that took 250 yards of line without stopping before Capt. Nugent could land the fish he was into and chase down that bad boy.
I landed my first fly rod albie as well as many others - special thanks to Capt. Gill Burke (sp?) for the Tutti Frutti fly recomendation - it was THE fly to use. I believe it was created by Capt. Sarah Gardner of Flat Out/ Fly Girl charters, it's a clouser tied as follows: white bucktail belly, silver/ holographic flash, neon pink bucktail wing, neon chartreuse top wing.
Lot's of other interesting fish caught as well.
Quote of the week #1 - over the radio from Riptide while we were heavily into fish, "Bob - get down here! Put the coal to it! It looks like a freakin' jacuzzi!"
Quote of the week #2 , overheard in a pack of albie crazed boats during a triple hook-up "Riptide Charters RULES!!"
Plenty of fish to be caught away from the crowds, Friday was the kind of day you dream of as we were into pods of fish alone or with Riptide with no other boats crashing the party.
Notes:
1. No problems hooking albies using 25# fluoro on my fly rods and 40# fluoro on the spin
2. Intermediate & 325 QD lines seemed to outfish my floating line as the fish were cruising sub-surface when you were casting to a busting pod.
3. "Fire it up!" mean start the boat and chase down the pod - not make the cast you were dying to make!!
By the way - Jim W - the Ocean 20 is THE boat to have great choice!
Best of luck,
Roop
Weather was less than optimal for Monday - Thursday still the team of Bob Pink's Double Happiness and Capt. Terry Nugent of Riptide Charters managed to match or outperform most of the guides on a regular basis.
Bob Pink's first albie on Monday set the bar for the biggest fish pool (taken on a 10" long tuna fly) and was never beat. Although, Buddah on Riptide hooked into an albie that took 250 yards of line without stopping before Capt. Nugent could land the fish he was into and chase down that bad boy.
I landed my first fly rod albie as well as many others - special thanks to Capt. Gill Burke (sp?) for the Tutti Frutti fly recomendation - it was THE fly to use. I believe it was created by Capt. Sarah Gardner of Flat Out/ Fly Girl charters, it's a clouser tied as follows: white bucktail belly, silver/ holographic flash, neon pink bucktail wing, neon chartreuse top wing.
Lot's of other interesting fish caught as well.
Quote of the week #1 - over the radio from Riptide while we were heavily into fish, "Bob - get down here! Put the coal to it! It looks like a freakin' jacuzzi!"
Quote of the week #2 , overheard in a pack of albie crazed boats during a triple hook-up "Riptide Charters RULES!!"
Plenty of fish to be caught away from the crowds, Friday was the kind of day you dream of as we were into pods of fish alone or with Riptide with no other boats crashing the party.
Notes:
1. No problems hooking albies using 25# fluoro on my fly rods and 40# fluoro on the spin
2. Intermediate & 325 QD lines seemed to outfish my floating line as the fish were cruising sub-surface when you were casting to a busting pod.
3. "Fire it up!" mean start the boat and chase down the pod - not make the cast you were dying to make!!
By the way - Jim W - the Ocean 20 is THE boat to have great choice!
Best of luck,
Roop