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[Old Man]

Boy, when Chris cleaned up the site he must of done a masterful job. It sure has been quiet on here lately. Not much to add stuff to. I kind of like it this way. But it won't last and somebody will rag on me and away we go.

 

[_WW_]

Who asked ya?

 

[Bob Newman]

Or maybe everyone’s out fishing ?

 

[Rocking Chair Fan]

Classifieds are busy. Not much politics lately. A few trip reports where one is hard pressed to know much beyond the state they were in... Hot spotting - ummm, errr, well it is what it is...,

 

[Dr. Magill]

Not much politics lately.

And that is a welcome change

 

[Old Man]

It's been raining off and on here for a few days. Temp is 52 degrees. Yesterday wasn't much better. It got into the 60's, but the wind was blowing at a good clip and the wind was cold. I actually had to put on a long sleeved shirt to keep the cold at bay.

 

[PhilR]

He's just an old man. what does he know, anyway?

 

[SilverFly]

Quiet? Maybe in the freshwater forums.

Last weekend (8/22-23) a small group of WFF members fished two days with @Nick Clayton out of Westport and caught a half ton of tuna ... on fly rods. Keeping pace with other boats fishing live bait with 50% more crew. Something previously not thought possible. I believe the @Swimmy term "crushed it" would apply here.

Oh yeah, and Nick got (to my knowledge) the first ever topwater fly eat from an albacore. A big one no less, that went fully airborne after inhaling his popper. There was nothing quiet about that. Folks in Long Beach probably heard him yelling.

 

[Swimmy]

Yeah, this post is awesome ^^^^

 

[Dr. Magill]

Yes it is !!!!!!!!

 

[PhilR]

topwater tuna popper
say that five times fast.
That's awesome

 

[cabezon]

Quiet? Maybe in the freshwater forums.

Last weekend (8/22-23) a small group of WFF members fished two days with @Nick Clayton out of Westport and caught a half ton of tuna ... on fly rods. Keeping pace with other boats fishing live bait with 50% more crew. Something previously not thought possible. I believe the @Swimmy term "crushed it" would apply here.

Oh yeah, and Nick got (to my knowledge) the first ever topwater fly eat from an albacore. A big one no less, that went fully airborne after inhaling his popper. There was nothing quiet about that. Folks in Long Beach probably heard him yelling.

And I caught one on a popper too....
Steve

 

[SilverFly]

And I caught one on a popper too....
Steve

Sweet! How did I miss that?

 

[cabezon]

Sweet! How did I miss that?

You were probably in the bow fighting your own fish. Here's the proof [Nick's was hooked by the base of the gills.]

There weren't very many moments when there wasn't at least one albacore being fought once we got out. On a 10 hour trip [5:30AM to 3:30PM], I figure 2.5 hours from leaving the dock until we put lines down, and 2.5 hours back and that leaves 5 hours of fishing. With 48 albacore in the boat (and one or two lost), that's about 10 albacore per hour or one every 6 minutes (if they were all singles, but we had quints, quads, triples, and doubles). We were busy...
Steve

 

[Olive bugger]

He's just an old man. what does he know, anyway?

Hey, wait a minute. I am an old guy also. We know a lot. We just keep forgetting what it is we know.