Spent a nice long day out on the water yesterday chasing sea-runs. We fished from about 9-330. A hell of a lot longer than i normally spend after cutties, but it was well worth it. Lots of fish and sun.
We started off just on the tail end of the outgoing tide fishing a little point. Not much current movement but we were able to locate some fish and hook into a couple of very nice ones. I was able to land one around 18 inches and my friend lost one that was bigger. pictures to follow, but this fish i caught had seaweed growing off his gillplate. I had never seen that before. looked like an old injury that was trying to heal.
We fished that same point for about an hour before moving on and trying a bunch of other areas that we hadnt hit before. We saw a few big cutties, but we got a lot of chasers yesterday that just wouldnt quite commit fully and eat the fly.
There was a bad algea bloom yesterday in some areas as well that made for tough fishing with murky water and lots of floating crap on the surface.
Once the tide started to come in and the current started to move, we headed down to a beach we know to produce on the flood tide. sure enough there were tons of cutties along the beach and we must have fished there for 3 or 4 hours catching a ton of fish. unfortunately we couldnt find any quite as big as at our first spot but the fish were so numerous that it was almost a fish every cast.
I fished almost every fly i have yesterday. Trying to see what i couldnt catch fish on. My biggest fish came on a chartruese and yellow clouser while most of the time i fished a new dart that i have started to tie. olive/white clousers and little baitfish patterns also picked up fish for us.
hopefully my buddy got some good pics and i will try to put them up soon. One hell of a day to spend on the water.