I made the annual autumn trip to Herb's cabin at Camp Runamuck this past Sunday and met up Herb and Keith. The three of us have been fishing together since the early 1980's and have always loved getting up to the Camp: it's off the grid and very quiet. A great place to meet up, catch up, play some cribbage, tell lies, go fishing, go oystering and just relax.
Oystering: yeah! We each harvested a limit two days in a row.
I drove home yesterday. For dinner? Pan fried oysters. So delicious!
The fishing was SLOW. We just didn't find fish but then, quite frankly, we're rank amateurs. We fish from a boat and slowly cruise up the beach shorelines taking turns casting towards the beach and letting the fly line swing. It was tough the two days we fished because there was lots of eelgrass and many leaves that fouled our flies. Other than the first morning and only for maybe an hour, we didn't see any fish jumping, rolling. There just didn't seem to be fish around. There were lots and lots of seals. (Do seals scare off SRC?)
I fished an rather ugly fly tied with two different colors of FTD's Krap dubbing and a bit of white bear fur (which did get me the ice cream fish), the fly:
The fish:
It rained pretty hard Monday. I can't remember the last time I was out in the rain. It felt great until it was time for me to run the boat back to the launch: my glasses got pretty wet.
For the past five years or so I'd been fishing a --- Outbound Short line on a 690 Echo Ion XL. That line on that rod were happy together. Unfortunately that === line cracked up. I replaced it with a Cortland Compact Intermediate WF 6/7 (240 GR), What a nice line with the Ion XL.
Oystering: yeah! We each harvested a limit two days in a row.
I drove home yesterday. For dinner? Pan fried oysters. So delicious!
The fishing was SLOW. We just didn't find fish but then, quite frankly, we're rank amateurs. We fish from a boat and slowly cruise up the beach shorelines taking turns casting towards the beach and letting the fly line swing. It was tough the two days we fished because there was lots of eelgrass and many leaves that fouled our flies. Other than the first morning and only for maybe an hour, we didn't see any fish jumping, rolling. There just didn't seem to be fish around. There were lots and lots of seals. (Do seals scare off SRC?)
I fished an rather ugly fly tied with two different colors of FTD's Krap dubbing and a bit of white bear fur (which did get me the ice cream fish), the fly:
The fish:
It rained pretty hard Monday. I can't remember the last time I was out in the rain. It felt great until it was time for me to run the boat back to the launch: my glasses got pretty wet.
For the past five years or so I'd been fishing a --- Outbound Short line on a 690 Echo Ion XL. That line on that rod were happy together. Unfortunately that === line cracked up. I replaced it with a Cortland Compact Intermediate WF 6/7 (240 GR), What a nice line with the Ion XL.
