Picture this: Joppa flats, 10 boats, all flycasters aboard, flailing for hours, fish everywhere, nobody hooking up. That's what we have this week at P.I. I was a guest aboard Doug B.' new craft today, what a beautiful boat Doug, thanks. Everytime you move the boat to set up another drift you spook tons of fish. 1 out of every 10 casts spooks a 10 square yard size school hanging on the surface in 6 feet of water. We were dredging up some good fish with herring flies for a while over the last few weeks but now, alas, spring is over. There are lots of factors causing the nervousness. I think it's mainly fishihg pressure and boat traffic (and some guy scared them all with a big fat sluggo yesterday:razz: )
We did manage to find a few hungry schoolies down river to redeem ourselves. In fact, a low 20s fish exploded on my Olive over clouser and came out of the water like a tiger. Amazing how some of those smaller fish can fight. I also hit the same thing 2 days before with Grego on my boat. Same scene.
Time to change gears, move on. I'm thinking Cape Ann or some flats above.
Lefty
ps. OK, I want posts from Chatham on the 2 schoolie days too.
We did manage to find a few hungry schoolies down river to redeem ourselves. In fact, a low 20s fish exploded on my Olive over clouser and came out of the water like a tiger. Amazing how some of those smaller fish can fight. I also hit the same thing 2 days before with Grego on my boat. Same scene.
Time to change gears, move on. I'm thinking Cape Ann or some flats above.
Lefty
ps. OK, I want posts from Chatham on the 2 schoolie days too.