Looking for an approach

Tidal Rivers & Estuaries

Date: June 20, 2008 at 09:53:37
From: MarkG, [ool-182df70f.dyn.optonline.net]
Subject: Looking for an approach

I've been fishing a flat for the past week just as outgoing begins. Every striper I've taken on this stretch this week has been on a red fly on the surface dead drifted. This section of the flat eventually leads to a rip where I have picked a number of stripers during the week. I've been unable to take any fish in the 150 feet of water that leads up to the rip and for whatever reason the red flies stop working there. I dead drifted gurgler with GP and Ray's fly droppers and I swung small flies as well as a 9-inch whitish fly. There is a decent current but it's never fast. I haven't been able to take a fish in this particular section but I have taken them in the following rip. What is it about this section that I am not understanding? Last night, at the head of this section of water, I managed landing one shad on a 1 1/2" red GP after missing it 3 times but I could not take a striper in that area. The fish weren't popping but there were lots of swirls and tail splashes.
There was a fellow with a spin rod casting a very small surface plug but he was actually only fishing a 4" zonker strip fly on a dropper and had a fairly steady pick of stripers in the area I couldn't catch in. I didn't cast from the spot where he was so I don't no if it was an angle situation. Any ideas as to what his advantage may have been?

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