Fishing Report Charlestown Breachway, 9/13/07

  



My Stealth High Tie  ( Big Flies - Big Fish )

Pattern Name: The Stealth High Tie
Pattern Tied and Developed By: Ed Lombardo 
Recipe for The Stealth High Tie
Hook: Eagle Claw 254, 2/0, 1/0
Thread: Black or Olive
Body: Small white bunches of calf tail high tied, about 1/8"
apart
Wing: 2 to 5 long hackles tied flatwing in series on top of each calf tail. The first 2 are white, 3rd olive, gold, and pink, 4th blue, dark  green, and black, and 5th a bunch of peacock herl or black bucktail. Varnish each tie with head cement as you go.
Flash: Under two hackles
Cheeks: Guinea hen over white calf tail
Throat: Red crystal flash

This fly can be tied in an endless variety of colors.
 
   Hi everybody, we fished the Charlestown Breachway just upstream of the boat launch last night. The tide turned to incoming at 7:00pm and that is when the fish became active. Because the tide is not very high in volume it was moving somewhat slow. The stripers keep coming in, in small schools and not that often. The best action was within the second hour of the turn of the tide. We took schoolies, no keepers, on white deceivers and white and black stealth flies. These flies are 4" to 6" in length. The bait it still very, very, prolific; peanut bunker from 3" to 4" in length. I'm using a fast sinking intermediate fly line, an Airflow + 40 line. This line has a clear heavy WF section that I do believe makes a difference. These larger flies get below most of the bait and it is at this point or volume of water the fish I think take out of instinct as it passes by them. Long slow almost dead drift in nature seamed to work best for a retrieve.

 

 

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