I used all the guide's gear - I know it was a Hatch 9+ reel with a Scott S4S (that thing casts like a dream, btw). I believe it was a 10 wt, but may have been a 9 wt. The big rods sure help, especially when a nice 6' bull shark showed up to investigate the "snack" of a 27 lb redfish struggling on my line. I was really able to horse the fish around to keep him safe from the shark til the guide got a shot at the shark with the push pole, scaring him away. Probably would've lost the fish to the shark if it was anything lighter weight.
To Gene's joke: the fly pattern was a brown whistler. I as actually having a bit more success with that fly the than other two boats near us were having - although to my guide's point, I was a "much better caster" than the other guys. I doubt that had anything to do with it though ;-)
The cool thing about fishing with my guide is he has two others that he works closely with on the water. They're always on the radio helping each other out with locations, how areas are fishing, etc. It's almost as if you get to cover 3 times as much ground. It's even more helpful this time of year, because with the fish schooling up, you can leave a school of mostly black drum with the scattered reds and go join one of the other guides on a school of mostly reds and still not be on top of each other.
On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 1:45 PM, TurbineBlade <doublebclan@gmail.com> wrote:
--To heck with equipment!What was the magic fly? Sight casting to zombie, tailing SW fish with speed, accuracy and wind is 1% of the game (says every SW fly fishing guide, ever). 99% of it is really about finding the one magic fly the fish are keying on.The same applies to Carp, word for word y'all.GeneKidding aside -- those are fantastic fish Jeff. SW sight casting in my opinion demands more casting skill than any other fly fishing discipline. I'll probably die before I catch redfish that size, or in those numbers.
On Tuesday, October 20, 2015 at 1:34:56 PM UTC-4, Nedak wrote:Awesome. What was your setup? Can't tell from the picture.
On Monday, October 19, 2015 at 6:24:09 PM UTC-4, Jeff Silvan wrote:I had a four day trip booked to stick some redfish in the marshes of Louisiana with Greg Moon of Louisiana Fly Fishing Charters. Unfortunately, the weather didn't cooperate, and the wind picked up too hard to fish the last 3 of the 4 days. BUT, the one day I got on the water was nothing short of phenomenal. In fact, the best day of fishing I have ever had, period. We lost count of the redfish after the first couple, but I wound up with somewhere around 20 or 25 redfish plus two black drum. I caught one "baby" fish that was about 12 lbs, one fish in the upper teens, and all the rest were in the 20 lb range, with the average being about 25 lbs and a few creeping close to 30 lbs. This time of year, the fish school up like crazy. We got into a school of thousands upon thousands of black drum, with some redfish scattered in it. In the picture "7056" you can see all the white spots in the water - those are all fish. Acres of them. This was one of two schools we fished all day. You quikcly stopped bothering fishing the black drum because they aren't nearly as excited. The second school we fished had far more reds in it. Towards the end of the day, I stopped even casting to fish that I didn't think had a shot to break 30. Absolutely unreal fishing. With how bruised and tired I was from day 1, I can't imagine was it would've been like it the weather held for me.
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