Zach how’s finals going?
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Don’t worry buddy, I got your back while your tied up!
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Lemme tell you, buddy, if I see any more holders in due course run across my vision I might just kick them!
I have Commercial Law tomorrow and Tax the next day, then Remedies on Friday.
Naw, I am back to my old evil ways. Besides these fish would make a fly rod beg for mercy and forgiveness. If they can put a strain on a meat stick with 50# mono, a fly rod would be a stretch. I really think I could have gotten one on a fly today as we were in fish all day but I had my top up on the boat, it was raining, and I just wanted to get some fish on film. BD caught another close to the same size and broke one off. We literally had fish blasting baits all day. Once I get it out of my system I’ll switch back over to the fly.
I am working next week but the weekend might be open.
Good Luck on your tests!!!!
Yea I know it can be done but the odds here are stacked against you. Unlike lake or ocean fishing this is a relatively narrow river, under heavy Generation, full of fallen trees, rocks, Navigation Buoys, with an average depth of
The snags are really what get you. Farther downriver, there are not as many obstructions, and you can let a striper run a long way. In the upper Cumberland, there are so many trees and brush piles that it can be hard to keep a fish out of them. If they run toward the middle of the river, you’ve got them – you can usually let them run all they want (unless they find a channel marker buoy). But if they run for the bank, it’s hard to stop them with a flyrod.
It can be done, but you’re going to lose some fish to the snags.
bd
Nice fish.
I had the same thoughts when I looked at your pics, it does look like you guys are up around a lot of snags.
Yes the tippet has to be less then the breaking strength of the knot connecting the fly line to backing for sure.
I am a catch and release fisherman almost exclusively. On a rare occasion I take a fish for a meal but that’s a once or twice a year type thing. I do however support the keeping of fish as long as it is done legally.
I’ve fished with Mike on that River, and while its wide, I see the problem with the snags, and I definitely hear Carter on losing the line.
I’ll give you the same deal I gave BD. You buy the gas and I’ll provide the boat. In all this trip would cost you about $50.
I would love to go up there and fly fish and we will. But beware; it is Hawg season so I might sneak a bait out the back whilst you are up on the casting deck. This could work to your advantage as you can cast to one of the many Stripers that make a run at my bait. I might also get you to run the trolling motor with the remote while I cast a fly.
If we don’t get too slammed with rain, they run 1 generator, and it rains or is very cloudy, I have a feeling you will get your line broke! :'(
If you’re interested, Keep both days open so we can adjust according to generation.
Based on my striper fishing with a fly, it definitely helps to have a bait on a planer board at the same time so you can cast to fish that have been “teased up.” This isn’t much different from the way they fly fish for billfish, so it must be okay.
Jose Wejebe chums them up with live bait then throws a fly out. In Venice LA Capt Peace Marvel chums theTuna up with cut bait and toss a fly out. Yep, it has be ok if they do it. ;D
BTW if anyone is interested in sharing the expense on a Yellowfin Tuna fishing trip to Venice let me know. I have been wanting to fish that area for years now. It runs around $900 plus gas and tips for a guide trip.
Here is a link to some of the best charters in the LA area. Things have slowed a bit there since Katrina but its starting to pick back up.
Umm you can’t eat bonefish. ;D
The guide I fished with in Hawaii said they eat them there – apparently they’re bony (who’d have guessed?), but you can grind up the meat and make fish cakes out of them.
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