Gotta love those shallow hitting saltwater silvers this time of year! More than once this season Ive had them swoop up and strike at my herring as I was testing the action on a newly rigged one next to the boat. A bit startling but cool!

I have seen them strike at various things trolled on or near the surface a ways back from the boat. But recently I witnessed a "first" for me. A friend of mine brought along a $500 Sage 10 ft. for a 9 wt. fly rod out on the salt. But did he rig a nifty coho streamer fly onto to it? No. He actually had the gall to rig a small whole herring on a double hook leader tied to the end of a fast sink tip fly line, and troll it about a hundred feet behind the boat. We stuck to trolling ours the conventional method. We witnessed this guy hook as many silvers this way as we did using Delta divers and Fish Flashes with leaders to small whole herring (by the way, which were outfishing plugcuts). Trolling SE in the same direction of the big long swells the flyline herring would sink a couple feet under the surface when the boat slowed down in the "dip" between swells, then rise back to a surface skate. Very cool to see a 'ho crab this offering right off the surface!!

I asked my friend to try "false casting" the herring with his big steelhead flyrod and he simply said "makes for a poor presentation". Ya right.

Ive gotten lots of shallow saltwater silver takes using such as Wiggle Warts and K10 Kwikies and such. What have you guys taken them shallow with?