- Sun Oct 20, 2013 9:27 pm
#541610
So I thought today was gonna be the day...that we stopped just getting looks and started getting eats.
Franzen made the trek over the holler, although the sun was quite warm upon his arrival, and I was hoping for an earlier start with the upper 30 degree morning we saw.
I'll cut to the chase and spare the details. We sight cast to 8 fish today all in the upper 30" to mid 40" class, mostly on sand flats, I had one good follow thought was gonna eat (then there was a noise distraction on the bow of the boat, she left). I managed 2 more follows from the timber, one really hot fish that I put into the "8" until she lost interest and sulked on the bottom, I told Chris to show her something different, get his fly down there and she came on it hot, he sped the fly up and she charged hard and flared....then left.
We were working down another flat (and had been calling out carp and suckers all day to each other, validation thing), and he calls out a carp..."No! Shit! Shit! It's the biggest fucking smallmouth I've ever seen!!!" we both hauked big flies at it and it showed some interest, so I spin the boat around, make a quick fly change, make a cast, tease it a bit and it pounces like a kitten on a ball of yarn. The fish was a solid 5#r (you know, Bob White stylin'). I just about have her to the boat when she does the head shake/ jump combo and comes unbuttoned...damn. But it was cool.
So that was pretty much our day. We saw a pair of bald eagles and some otters.
Chidester, Bufud, and Socks hit a different river today w/ a better outcome....looking forward to the TR (damn kids were texting more than fishing).
Which one of you fuckers has a flats skiff in the NC mountains?-southernstrain
Was there also a raft,drift boat,jon boat,and a gheeno in the yard?-Kyle
- By mitch aka 2 fish
- By The Po Thead