Last night at Quanny Aug. 14 2002

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Date: December 21, 2002 at 15:42:17
From: ken, [pool-64-223-39-246.prov.east.verizon.net]
Subject: Last night at Quanny Aug. 14 2002

Interesting night, There were lots of different kinds of bait and in great numbers and variety. There were silversides in many sizes from one inch to 5, small menhaden, shrimp, and all the usual bottom fish like killy's and shorthorn sculpins and tiny cunners. After the tide turned the stripers began to feed on the bar on the west side of the inlet for hours and hours. There were so many feeding that they made a continuious noise that sounded like a roar and it was ceaseless. It was so loud that you had to get withn a few feet of someone to hear them talk to you. The fish were over one hundred feet away. No one could reach them from shore but there were fish in the current on the east side of the bar. They were hard to catch and we tried all types of flies with not much success until clam worms flies were tried. Seeing all that bait made it obvious that they had to be feeding on it but as often happens they didn't agree. Todd Murphy tied on a couple of flat wing clam worm flies about an inch and a half long with a gold body and with red hackle tip wing and tail and started hooking up every time he put a fly over a fish. This was on the incoming, way after dark and it worked for me to. These worms were not as fast in the water as last month's worms and they showed up on the flood which is worthy of note and there there were more baitfish than worms in the main current but the bass and shad were looking for them. Tonight may be different and it starts about an hour after the tide turns and the 'smell,' of bass was heavy in the air. There were some bigger fish on the western edge of the current. Oh, for a kayak or canoe!

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