Intro

[Ultralite]

Guess I should introduce myself as I've made a few posts here already. My name is Steve Mras and I hail from Fullerton, CA. I run a diesel powered Blackman 20 center console in the salt and an 18' Ranger bass boat on the sweetwater. I fish for everything from blue marlin, striped marlin, swordfish and tuna on the salt to trophy bass on the fresh. Throw in some flyfishing, both saltwater and freshwater, and my efforts get pretty diluted. I have met few forms of fishing I dislike, which explains why I'm not so focused on any single one.

On impulse, I took the board name "Ultralight" because pursuing light tackle fishing on the salt is but one of my fishing passions.

[whowantstoknow]

well well well.....look who decided to say hello!!

Welcome aboard...glad to have you here.

[gottaflylee]

Welcome from another feather duster thrower to Marlin hunter...

[Ultralite]

Welcome from another feather duster thrower to Marlin hunter...

Lee, I am forcing myself to become a feather duster thrower. After all the fishing I've done, I have found that there is no more technically complicated form of fishing than fly fishing. Try my last outings on the South Fork of the Boise River in Idaho and the Owyhee River in Central Eastern Oregon. Both trophy tailwater fisheries, with the SF Boise being crystal clear water and the Owyhee being alkaline and milky green. You have to read the rivers, understand the hatch and match it and then make a perfect no drift presentation with a size 18 dry fly to a 20'+ trout and then land it in a stream running at 1800 CFS using gear designed to cast the line, not land the fish. Everything has to come together in order to be successful. I lost my biggest, an estimated 24" rainbow to a last ditched run into heavy current. It smashed a Chernobyl ant 2' from the bank on our drift. I compare that to dropping back or casting a live bait to a striped marlin or a tuna and from a technical difficulty standpoint, the fly flishing is sooo much more difficult. I have no doubt it makes me a better conventional fisherman, if only for all the knots and leader systems I am forced to learn.

[Ultralite]

well well well.....look who decided to say hello!!

Welcome aboard...glad to have you here.

Raquel "Jersey", luv ya hun. You've got spunk, even though you don't have the....oh forget it. Luv ya!