Lots of evidence that caprs have been here rooting around for whatever they might find. One of these darker spots was almost four inches deep, makes me wonder what the capr was digging that deep for?
Every time I think I know something about fishing for caprs (or trout - for that matter), I get handed a lesson that I don't know as much as I thought. Sunday - lots of fish around. A couple hundred plus. Today, I saw a dozen fish, maybe a bakers dozen. Huh.
I did see two cruisers right away, my Trouser Worm spooked 'em and, as capr anglers know, cruisers don't eat. The next fish I saw spooked at that big worm - not sure if it was the SPLAT or I lined the fish (it was windy). Time to change flies. I loop knotted on a hybrid that I tied this morning. It's HEAVY and makes a lot of noise when it hits. So yeah, it spooked a couple fish. Time to change flies.
I often find a few fish in Duck Blind Bay, today was no exception. Two fish. Fortunately they were feeding maybe 30 feet apart. I made a good cast to the closest fish, he ate and I struck but too late and his exit from Duck Blind Bay left quite a mud and bubble trail. The other fish hadn't spooked and I'll be darned, another good cast a little strip to bring the jig towards the mudding fish. Fish on!
A poor copy of @clarkman's awesome scale photos:
Four days ago I had many shots at fish, there were so many fish. Today, no more than a dozen possibilities. What gives? Where to they go or maybe more to the point, why were there so many fish along the shoreline Sunday and today was more typical?
Today was more confirmation that three casts to a fish is futile, that third cast is the goose that get's them going away because by the second cast, they are WARY.
Every time I think I know something about fishing for caprs (or trout - for that matter), I get handed a lesson that I don't know as much as I thought. Sunday - lots of fish around. A couple hundred plus. Today, I saw a dozen fish, maybe a bakers dozen. Huh.
I did see two cruisers right away, my Trouser Worm spooked 'em and, as capr anglers know, cruisers don't eat. The next fish I saw spooked at that big worm - not sure if it was the SPLAT or I lined the fish (it was windy). Time to change flies. I loop knotted on a hybrid that I tied this morning. It's HEAVY and makes a lot of noise when it hits. So yeah, it spooked a couple fish. Time to change flies.
I often find a few fish in Duck Blind Bay, today was no exception. Two fish. Fortunately they were feeding maybe 30 feet apart. I made a good cast to the closest fish, he ate and I struck but too late and his exit from Duck Blind Bay left quite a mud and bubble trail. The other fish hadn't spooked and I'll be darned, another good cast a little strip to bring the jig towards the mudding fish. Fish on!
A poor copy of @clarkman's awesome scale photos:
Four days ago I had many shots at fish, there were so many fish. Today, no more than a dozen possibilities. What gives? Where to they go or maybe more to the point, why were there so many fish along the shoreline Sunday and today was more typical?
Today was more confirmation that three casts to a fish is futile, that third cast is the goose that get's them going away because by the second cast, they are WARY.
