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Date: August 07, 2006 at 14:33:32
From: Todd B, [adsl-69-183-60-54.adsl.snet.net]
Subject: Re: Flats in the salt ponds


I used to use all those things and never caught to many fish, and even gave up for a while. My fly fishing skills are not that great to begin with, so I attributed my failure to that, and I am sure that had something to do with it. Even with my lack of talent my success rate has increased considerably. My flats experience is limited to RI so I don't know how it compares with other areas, all I can tell you is where I fish the flats there is a good deal of current running over them and if your not dead drifting your not catching, atleast I am not. How many times I have casted a sinking line and jig fly to breaking fish stationed in current, no wonder I couldn't hook up. Honestly If I never read your book and tried this style of fishing, wich for the life of me I can't understand is not the norm, I would not be using a fly rod in the salt. Not to mention how much better you become with a spinnig rod in your hands when you apply the same concepts to drifting plugs, deadly. Those other methods probably produce on other species in different situations, but if its stripers your after and your standing in a pair of waders, from my experience, nothing I have done comes even close to presenting your offering in as life like a manner as possible. What makes more sensce than that. I do believe I have tied and fished with just about every pattern you will find in any salt water fly book, and there is nothing that looks as alive in the water as a sparsley tied dead drifted R.L.S style fly period.. It's just that simple.


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