Fishing Report -- 03-08-13

The best way to summarize this trip is to title it “Shark on fly – the Hard Way!”. Today with Doug was fly only with the mission of getting some Spinner Sharks. Big waves were the killer. A font had just moved through and although the wind was blowing strong it was NW, still doable in the ocean however there were big waves breaking forcing us to keep our distance from the beach. The sharks were in tight to the beach and were not coming out to play. Disappointed with the shark thing we hit a few deeper spots with less than spectacular results. Doug did however manage some Lesser Amberjacks, Sea Bass, Bullet Bonito and Blue Runners. Late afternoon the swell laid down just enough for us to get close enough to the beach to get the sharks interested in our chum. To add insult to injury when we finally got some bites Murphy had to show up. First hooked fish resulted in a broken fly line, looks like another shark may have bitten it. The second resulted in a bent hook while the fish was running (weird as it’s pretty hard to bend a 7/0 Owner hook with a fly rod). The third hookup however resulted in a landed shark. Kudos to Doug for hanging in there till it finally happened. It was a brutal day on the water. The bright side is that the day before we didn’t think we’d even be able to get into the ocean, so I suppose sharks the hard way is better than no sharks at all.   

                          

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