7/22 bass fishing

   

6/19 Chesapeake fly fishing

The bass have definitely started to move around a little more and the bigger fish have largely left the bay. Hopefully soon the schoolies will be schooled up and blitzing.     

After work fishing

I've had some chances to fish after work which have had great results. The low light conditions are great at that time of day and there can be fewer boat although not as few as I had hoped       

April

   

Bassin

Saturday turned out to be colder and windier than forecast but still fish able. We're still finding fish in shallow water which is great on the fly rodWe ended up catching a hickory shad too which I've never caught in the main part of the bay

Slow start to the season

The season has been off to a slow start. They bass have been appearing sporadically in the mid bay probably as a result of the cold early spring slowing down the warm up of the bay. Mr Bleier's Facebook reminder showed a picture of a 28" bass we caught two years ago today which tells me we need to get out in shallow water again soon!

Last weekend we fished hard all day Sunday in the mid bay and there was very little life. I even resorted to wire lining for a little while with only one knockdown that didn't hook up to show for it. Beautiful day and this Saturday will be another one. 

Calamari flies

Despite the God awful weather this weekend I'm tying up some flies for the May and June squid run on the cape. The poppers are tied using an articulated shank designed for steelhead flies. I've used these to make the red can squid variations longer as well. The other fly is like Dave Skok's red can squid but I used a 6/0 pike hook. This moves the eye further down the "mantle" of the squid to make it look a little more proportional to the actual Atlantic long fin squid that I'm trying to imitate. I don't know how the pike hook will do in saltwater but hopefully the fly will be so mangled by the end of the first day that it won't matter.