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Saturday I had two more clients out with light tackle spin gear, lots of wind, fished the tide from low to high and boated one 21” trout.
When Sunday came and the wind was blowing a steady 20mph, I thought about sitting in my swing and reading the Sunday paper. That was only a thought! There were fish to catch.
My client and I left the dock at 9am to catch the incoming tide. We were on the flats about 40 minutes later. Tried fly rods - not a chance! So we started fishing a new High Roller 3.5” wide body Rip Roller in about 18” of water over lush ell grass beds. After casting the Rip Roller for about 15 minutes we started getting trout action. Over the next hour to hour and a half, we boated 7 large trout from 19” to 23”. We also had at least 6 or 7 strikes from agitated trout.
As the tide continued to move in, I moved the boat into some rock piles that have produced reds in the past and, what do you know, within 30 to 40 minutes we had a 25” and 27” in the boat, using the same plug on the top.
February 10, 2001 with
Capt. Sam LeNeave
Lite-Line
Charters
Gainesville, FL
Phone: 352-374-4003
Email: flyfisher@ix.netcom.com
My client and I left Dallus Creek Landing about 8am on Saturday morning. The tide this morning was a spring tide with the water to be below the mean low-low watermark at 10:15am. This meant that sections of the creek would be almost dry and I would have to pull my Gheenoe down some long stretches of the creek to get to deeper water.
We made it out to the mouth by about 9:30am and started scouting for a spot to set up to catch the incoming tidal flow. The plan was to fish about 70% of the incoming tide working our way back up the creek to a large cluster of oyster bars where the reds have been known to hang out.
My client was using his new Reddington saltwater fly rod and large Arbor fly reel. On this rig he attached a 9 ft 8 lb fluorocarbon leader and a fly he had tied for this trip. The fly looked like a greenback minnow that floated on the surface until stripped. When stripped it dove under the water and then resurfaced.
During the five or so hours we fished, he was able to boat 9 trout, the smallest being 23” and weighing in at about 4 lbs. The largest trout boated was 27 ½” and weighed almost 7 lbs. All of these gator trout were caught on the flies we named the Dallus Creek Specials.
The only down side of this great
day was no reds!
Following is some photos from the
day:
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