I was lucky enough to fish out of a friend's boat on Saturday around Chatham. We were on the water at 5:15 and ran straight to the rips on the West side of South Monomoy. After a little searching we found birds and sizeable blues that were eager to smash crease flies on top. This went on for an hour or so until the rip dissipated and the birds scattered. Quite the battle on an 8wt!
Rounded the tip of SM where there were acres of birds and an armada of boats. Lots of gulls sitting on the water and although we saw a few people hooked-up we did not mark many fish. We decided to ditch the crowd and ran down to fish the surfside of SB where there was some protection from the wind. Caught 2 legals dead drifting flies in the current - one of which was built like a tank around 33". Saw a nice fish landed from the beach as well - peanut bunker and terns dumping everywhere.
Finally we headed inside and saw pod after pod swing buy us on the flats but they would not eat despite countless good presentations. Tried a variety of flies and had a couple of follows but no dice. Unbeleivable lockjaw - dont know if they were in transit or what but we tried everything on them - big, small, crustacean - fast strip, dead drift, etc. Pretty cool seeing them anyway until the wind made flycasting futile around 1pm.
Rounded the tip of SM where there were acres of birds and an armada of boats. Lots of gulls sitting on the water and although we saw a few people hooked-up we did not mark many fish. We decided to ditch the crowd and ran down to fish the surfside of SB where there was some protection from the wind. Caught 2 legals dead drifting flies in the current - one of which was built like a tank around 33". Saw a nice fish landed from the beach as well - peanut bunker and terns dumping everywhere.
Finally we headed inside and saw pod after pod swing buy us on the flats but they would not eat despite countless good presentations. Tried a variety of flies and had a couple of follows but no dice. Unbeleivable lockjaw - dont know if they were in transit or what but we tried everything on them - big, small, crustacean - fast strip, dead drift, etc. Pretty cool seeing them anyway until the wind made flycasting futile around 1pm.