jbmaine

I'm normally 5 ft 11" ,but when I'm reaching for an expensive bait stuck on a tree branch I've been known to hit six three or more.😄

While I don't flyfish as much I used to, I've always had a passion for flyfishing, and have caught tons of fish on the fly, both fresh and salt water. There is just something about a fly or popper made with fur and feathers that conventional baits can't match. Even sitting still, feathers will undulate in the water. For example, pull up a video of a Dalhburg diver and see how the feathers and deer hair trap air bubbles that get released as it's moving. IMHO flyfishing is one of those things that you either love or just don't care for. To be good at it requires some time and effort. You can use a stripping basket to manage your line in your yak if needed.

I was lucky enough to start fishing the salt with a fly rod some time before it became so popular and over the years caught hundreds of stripers on the fly. I'd get my salt boat up in great bay in Newington N.H. about three AM, kill the motor and drift. You could hear schoolie stripers ripping in to bait fish on the surface. If you could drift thru them you could catch them almost every cast. 2-5 LB stripers are real fun on a 7 weight fly rod. As soon as the sun came up they would go deep and stop hitting. My biggest striper was caught one night fishing from shore about ten PM. I was fishing the junction of Seavey's creek and little harbor in Rye NH with a 9 weight rod. It hit hard and took me some time to get it in. I didn't have a scale but I laid it against my rod and later measurements showed it to be some what north of 40".

Fresh water bass at night on a flyrod----surface-- Dalhberg Diver-- black or white-- sub surface-- any thing that has bulk-- muddler minnow, wooly bugger, etc. colors never mattered much to me at night. Stripers in the salt-- my favorite was a Lefty's Deceiver color White, charthouse or black.

If you only knew how many stripers I've picked up at night on a fly rod.🙂

If fish are hammered by conventional baits go completely 180 and try a fly rod. Flies can do things no other bait can.

It's that time of year around here.

This is a daily occurrence at my place.

The more overcast the better. Chartreuse spinnerbait is the ticket for me.

I'm on my second Lund. Not a single leak in either of them. Would buy again in a heart beat.

I'm in my seventies and both the missus and I have disabilities that make fishing not as comfortable as it once was. As a bit of a back story, I spent decades standing in trout rivers or in a canoe. For years the missus and I fished out of a canoe. When that got too uncomfortable we bought a skiff. That worked for a number of years but finally it got to the point that after a day of fishing it took a week for my back to stop hurting and finally we bought a multi species style boat ( Lund Fury) and that for us has worked out great. We can both sit and fish, stand up and move around, be on the water all day with out hurting. We rigged it with an Ulterra so stow and deploy is the push of a button. We have a sun top to get out of the sun as needed. Comfortable chairs to sit on. As I said, for us it is perfect. Here's a few pics.

Hi all, As some of you know my wife is a recent cancer survivor. We were so lucky to have an amazing hospital with a very good cancer center near by, and her treatment was top notch. She and I were exploring ideas on how we might give back and came across an Idea that is a good fit for us. Besides fishing, my wifes main hobby is quilting and we found out the hospital could use Lap quilts for patients during infusions, chemo to help keep them warm and possibly take home. So my wife has been busy making quilts and bags to keep them in. Here's one we hung up to photograph and one of the storage bags she is making. Thanks for looking

Hi all, I feel so lucky to be able to sit at my computer, look out the sliding glass door and enjoy the wildlife. Every day brings a new sight. Took these pics in the last couple of days. The red marker is to help warn birds from hitting the glass. Thanks for looking.

Love it! Looks like something my dad would have read.

I've trolled some. Sometimes I'm just in the mood to sit back and be lazy. I used to know an old timer who only fished for bass at night, trolling a jitterbug. He caught plenty of bass.

I've been fishing the same waters most all my life so I don't need to spend much time exploring. We hit the water, try spot A,B,C with lure 1,2,3 and once we find the type of places the fish are at we hit more places just like it. On the days this doesn't work we'll keep moving. Generally speaking LM- we'll spend more time moving, like along a weed bed, because LM tend to hunker down more. SM- we'll hit a point or rock pile and stay for a while because Smallies tend to move around more and we'll wait for them to come to us.

If you try hard enough and long enough or hit one of those one in a million days, almost any " gimmick" lure will catch fish. I've even seen a fish suck down a cigarette butt once my friend threw in the water.

I spent many years fishing out of my Radisson canoe. Loved everything about it. Only reason I'm not still in it is my back told me it was time for a change.

In a bottle and over the side. Same place the fish, turtles, and frogs go.

The Greatest Era for me is all the days I could fish, from the past till now. Many fish, big fish days come and go, but for us anyway, all the days just getting out and being on the water are the real blessings.

I fish for bass because I love fishing, and they are a convenient fish to catch. Honestly I would rather be standing in a northern wilderness trout river fly fishing, but at our age and stage sitting in a comfortable boat in a near by bass lake is the way to go.

I love fishing cloudy overcast days. I think the fish feel safer with less visibility from above. I certainly catch more when it's overcast.

Radisson and sports pal canoes come set up to be rowed. I rowed mine for years.

I was working outside yesterday, doing some things around the house. Around here fall is in full swing. The air is getting cooler and dryer, the leaves are starting to drop. As I worked I kept thinking of Octobers past, and it felt so bitter sweet. My dad taught me about the outdoors, guns, shooting, hunting early in life. Back then, around here, the hunting was good. October was bird season and as soon as I was old enough I joined dad in the fields and marshes going after pheasant and duck. Our times together were so special. As we hunted he talked to me about things in a way I had never heard before, not father and son, but I guess, two hunting buddies. I learned more about him then than ever before or after. Mid 1980's my dad retired and he and mom retired in Florida. I stopped hunting soon after. Even after all this time the smell of gun oil, a freshly fired shotgun shell, the " fall" feeling outside, all trigger the flood of memories of me and my dad and the special bond we shared together. He and mom passed years ago, but I like to think he still remembers as I do, every fall. Thanks for listening Jim

This is Maine we are talking about . My folks told me I ate radioactive lobstah when I was a little kid.