Fishing Report Narrow River 10/9/07
Hickory Shad
Cast Down and Across Stream, 10 to 12 feet above and 6 to 8 feet beyond the fish, this will allow the fly to dead drift into the feeding fish.
Hi everybody, last night I fished the Narrow River I started at 6:00pm just as the tide started to turn to incoming. The tide was moving very well somewhat fast and the flooding level high. For the first ten minutes or so the fish just weren't their. At 6:20pm I looked just downstream from me and saw fish moving fast toward me. I said here they come! I was fishing my usual setup, two flies with the dropper being purple over white, made of craft fur, and my lead fly was pink in color. The first pod of fish splashing all over the place where strippers, fat very feisty schoolies, jumping and moving to take the very prolific baitfish (peanut bunker) on top and just below. I started taking or hooking two stripers at a time. This can be a lot of fun but at the same time can be somewhat unsafe. I mean, in low light conditions at dark, after removing the first fish from your dropper fly to get to the second fish which is on the lead fly the dropper fly hook is moving very uncontrollably close to your face and can't be seen. So after a few hookups like this I just cut the dropper fly off and fished with the one.
Then, oh, at about ten minutes later another wave of showy splashy fish arrived and this time they where large hickory shad, always a lot of fun on the fly. Their where so many feeding fish that I would just pick out fish that where rising closest to me and cast my fly to that target. I cast my fly about ten to twelve feet above, and, about six feet beyond the rising fish. This down and across stream casting approach will drift the fly directly into the fish at a good level, just under the surface. With the tide running so fast the sink tip part of the fly line doesn't have much time to sink fast and deep, allowing also a good hooking angel to the fish.
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