On board today I had new client, Ryan Jones, from Colorado, for fly fishing striped bass.

At first light, the bay was flat-calm and stayed flat all morning making conditions ideal for fly fishing. We had hoped for topwater action, but all the fish today were on structure. In fact, they all hugged the bottom and we had to get the fly into their feeding zone or they would not strike. Once we got that figured out, it was game on.

A RIO intermediate line with a sink rate of 3 seconds was out go-to. For fly patterns, the top pattern was an all white Lefty’s Deceiver. Our second top pattern was a weighted Baymen Universal on a Teeny 300 sinking line for the deeper fish. We also fished a topwater popper on a RIO floating line and hooked up on a few fish. One of the hits was was explosive and without warning!

Total catch and release today was 15 fish on the fly. Our best fish was 26.5 inches taken in about 8 fow. All our spots held a fish or two today. It was a great morning for fly fishing the bay.

Back at it. Fluke are on the agenda. Stay posted:

Capt. Dave
www.baymenlife.com