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Date: July 25, 2008 at 12:48:34
From: ken, [pool-64-222-43-164.prov.east.verizon.net]
Subject: Re: Meeting up


A fine mesh net can be the most useful tool one can have to figure these things out.

It works and it takes a bit of time but it does not waste it.

One puzzle that many people are baffled by is this one.

Tiny tick sized crabs. They are amber in color and translucent. At this time of the year they hatch in enormous quantities and the fish, large and small feed on them to the exclusion of everything else (for the most part). IF you can picture one of those tiny plastic salmon eggs about 1/8 to 3/16 in diameter you have the size right and the look right.

They do not filter feed but take them one at a time and you can catch these fish. I know because I have and friends of mine have. You will not catch them on a nine weight or a twelve weight very well.

Break out your tout gear and flies and fine tippets. I find a size 16 seems to work well.
I have lots of these tiny flies.

These crabs are swept out of the estuaries and rivers at this time of the year and they are in tide rips offshore and tuna and stripers and bluefish and everything else gorges on them.

See bluefish finning and they won't eat?

Guess what they are doing...

Same with stripers and even whales.

It may not be crabs that your fish are on but even money says that is what they are on.

You will need a net to see them.

I love stripers especially on a two weight or a three or a four or a five. Welcome to the traditional striper fishing master class.
This is normal b3ehavior for them every year at this time.
The biomass of those tiny crabs is enormous. Tons and tons of them and they are almost invisable to us but it is snowing crabs, a veritable crab blizzard to the fish.

:-)


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