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  1. I have a full day on Sunday for some shore fishing (fly and/or spin). Can be anywhere on Cape, but I need to end up in Truro. First time in the area. I’m currently thinking Race Point - looks like a beautiful spot, may chance on some fish, may get to see a GW... Any alternative suggestions?
  2. Thanks for the info, and the pointer to Bill Fisher shop. Christian
  3. I’m lucky enough to be visiting Nantucket for the first time last week of August. I’m trying to do some online investigating to have some clue what to bring and where/when to go when I get out there (other than basics like trying to fish tide changes in the sunset to sunrise time frame). Looks like my timing isnt optimal: a bit late for stripers and a bit early for albies or bonitos. Any thoughts or advice from the SOL denizens would be most appreciated. I’ll be shorebound.
  4. Wow! What an absolute hog! From your posts sounds like you were on the hunt. Care to share the story?
  5. Hey short, I’ll buy for $135 shipped (Boston area). Thanks, Christian
  6. Hey dthawks, I’ll take both the Lamsons for $475 shipped if still available. christian
  7. Seems part of the point with this training is that traditional, or “legitimate”, first responders will be too late for shark bite traumas. So if more normal everyday beach goers know what to do in the immediate aftermath, then lives might be saved that would otherwise be lost. Now, given the density of hospitals in Boston, you probably couldn’t cast a fly on a Cape beach in the summer without hitting a trained or trainee medical professional, but still, I really can’t see a downside to offering lay people training in shark trauma-specific first aid.
  8. Thanks for the advice. Could only got out for a couple hours at high tide on Sunday morning. Went to a long sandy and pebbly beach. No visible action, bird or fish, but hooked one (with a long distance release) and got in some good casting practice. Beautiful spot to spend some time on an oddly warm and humid fall day. And most importantly the kids had a blast catching perch from the dock behind our rental!
  9. Thanks Oakman. I belatedly used the search function and found the Numerous flats threads. I’ll probably stick closer along the shoreline this trip rather than venture out.
  10. Not looking for which rock to stand on, but apparently I’m going to be in Barnstable next Sat pm - Sun am for a family trip, and I know nothing about that area. I have decent Google fu and will dig up what’s out there but would really appreciate a shortcut on where a shorebound fisherman can find some access. Google maps shows me a nice marsh/estuary, which is promising because that’s my happy place as a trouter turned novice basser... any general help help much appreciated.
  11. Incredible day - congratulations! This is just the catalyst I need to force me to find a way to get out to see how my usual spot is fairing.
  12. Nothing doing for me fly fishing from shore through the turn this morning near mouth of one of the mid-sized estuaries. Water felt warm - too warm for stripers? Too in shore for the other fish? Novice fisherman?
  13. CLB

    night fishing

    Mike - I've followed enough threads to know which camp you're in!
  14. CLB

    night fishing

    You guys really are hearing them feeding?! That can’t be on the beach in surf can it? Oof - I have a long way to go!
  15. CLB

    night fishing

    Skunked Monday night during the low to high turn in a north shore MA estuary. Fished a known “hot spot” but new for me - I usually go further downstream but was feeling lazy and no one was there already. I was all geeked up on fishing after dark this weekend so had tied some deceivers in purple and black. Upside down but you get the idea: Anyway, no fish, no bumps, no nada. I heard maybe 6 splashes during the 2 hours I was fishing but couldn’t get any action. Now the interesting part: when i decided to call it a night and started walking out with my headlamp on, the shallows exploded with bait - sounded like a heavy downpour - pretty sure it was sand eels - small, 0.5-1” - that went nuts when the light hit the water. The light also revealed green crabs everywhere going nuts hunting down the bait. when I turned the light off, the bait explosion took a few minutes to subside - and twice I heard huge splashes a minute or two after the light went out. I chucked a few casts toward the sound but no dice. Anyway, I filed it away and next time I’m going to bring something smaller (and not dark) to mimic the little bait I saw, and maybe I’ll try to tie a green crab option too!
  16. Great story and a beautiful fish!
  17. Thanks everyone for all the input. I'm going hit the pause button and pass on the TFO Teeny (thanks Jamato), but I'll keep an eye out for one of the other suggested rods that have a bit more backbone for the stated 5 or 6 weight and could handle uplining a bit (xi2, xi3, rpl xi, TiCr, etc).
  18. I take an annual 3 week summer road trip with my kids from Massachusetts via various routes to Utah and then back. As usual, we spent a few days in Logan visiting the kids’ great-grandmother and other family, and as usual I wrangled a couple short trips to the classic mountain water of the Logan River. On the evening in question, time away from family activities and on the river was secured by bringing my oldest son (15) with me. Despite the wonderfully late summer sunsets in that part of the country, the protracted negotiations to get river time meant we were racing nightfall. As we drove up canyon, I ran the cost/benefit of the closer less fishy spots vs. the farther special secret spot shown to me long ago by great-granddad before he passed. Nostalgia and fishiness won, of course, and we headed on up the canyon and pulled off the road in the darkening dusk. I rigged the rod and got us all positioned below the first gorgeous boulder and pocket. And then I made the classic mistake - after describing the plan of attack, I said “Something like this” and made one cast... ...that landed the fly above the boulder and into an absolutely perfect drift along the dead water behind the boulder where it promptly disappeared into a stunning 16” native Bonneville cutthroat! I sheepishly brought it to hand and then fumbled it during the photo op so I guess you’ll just have to take my word - it was a beaut! We waded upstream a bit to the next pocket and this time I immediately handed the rod to my son and just DESCRIBED a good plan of attack. After getting a couple quick willow catches out of the way, he made a beautiful cast (cross-body no less) in the fading light and tricked a pretty little cutt-bow out of great-granddad’s favorite spot! And with that we called it a night and returned to regale great-grandma with tales of our success in great-granddad’s favorite spot!
  19. Thanks for replies. scooleen: I have the prototypical 8wt setup and am considering a 2nd setup - I don’t want to duplicate what I have so I can go lighter or heavier. At this point in my striper learning curve, I’m focused on small/medium estuaries so leaning toward the lighter setup. I definitely don’t want to overplay any fish, but I do enjoy a little excitement/tension/uncertainty after setting the hook. Right now with my 8w and the size fish I’m encountering it’s really all over at that point except for stripping in... JonC: my goal is to get a “beefy” 5w that will fish well when uplined a bit, which should help with moving bigger flies at the shore/in the breeze. I’m hoping from the limited reviews I can find online that the Jim Teeny might fit the bill. But I imagine 6w is likely to scratch the same itch... Steve: Thanks for the thread link. I hadn’t come across that one. Great story and cool to see Ray chiming in. I’ll have to work on accumulating the materials to try tying up a Bondorew Bucktail.
  20. I’ve been having a great first striper season fishing a 8w rod. I guess I’ve done a good job communicating how fun it is because I have several friends and family that want to give it a try. I’m thinking about putting together a second rig so I can get them out a few times with me before they commit to investing in their own gear. Given that I’m usually shore fishing a small/medium estuary and catching 14-24” fish, I’m thinking to go lighter for the 2nd rig as opposed to going for a bigger surf setup - maybe that’ll be the future 3rd rod! I need to do this somewhat on the cheap and am looking mostly at older used rods. I read the older 5w thread and the more recent one too and have been keeping my eye out for some of the rods mentioned. I did come across a 5wt Jim Teeny TFO - anyone have any feedback on suitability of that rod for my purposes? Other ideas? Thanks for any feedback.
  21. Not really sure if by drop off/pickup you mean you don’t want to rent a car, which I think could make things a little challenging. anyway, two ideas come to mind - one I’ve done, one I’d really like to do. I just did a 3 night loop in the Flattops Wilderness in Colorado. It was with my sons so I kept the mileage down which left plenty of time to enjoy the camp spots. Camped each night at a different alpine lake. All are home to native cutthroats including at least one monster that I saw cruise by 3 ft off the shore as I was filtering water. Added bonus, the trailhead is at Trappers Lake, home to the most genetically pure Colorado cutthroat population (and thus the source of Colorado’s cutthroat stockers). Trailhead is probably around 4+ hours from Denver - about half on I70, then progressively smaller roads. If interested I can give you a more detailed itinerary. Second, a trip I would love to do is hike into the S Fork Flathead R in the Bob Marshall wilderness. Supposedly great fishing including potential for large bull trout. Heavy density of grizzlies. Could fly into Kalispell. Trailhead maybe a couple hours from the airport. I think you could put together a great 3 day loop in there.
  22. Yes! Let’s all up our fish report game to fill the void AND to give bfd something to read/enjoy/comment on. Don’t worry about meeting the incredible bar of his reports - by his own description it took a lot of years to reach that high level. Come home from fishing, write something up, if you have one slap a photo on (fish, scenery, whatever) if you have one and contribute to the community while bfd is on the shelf for a bit. Noobs (like me), veterans, everyone - jump on in. And photos shouldn’t be considered a requirement - they’re a bonus. And readers - a “cool” or “great report” reply goes a long way when people post a report... clb
  23. Nice! Keep the reports coming - fun to read/see what everyone’s up to. (Ha! - “diggin some noontime pink” - apologies for my degenerate mind that went somewhere else entirely...to some long ago (fond) memories...but I digress)
  24. Thanks Righty. That book has been on my list - your rec will spur me on to order it!
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