Back to fishing again

[CapeMayRay]

No fishing for 4 days as my daughter was married this weekend. We had great weather for the wedding and everything was perfect. My wife and I enjoyed every minute. We could live with the strong winds and sorry to hear about the tough conditions at the shore.

Since we were right on the Delaware River in Riverton I took my flyrod and fresh water license. Had time to fish Saturday morning while the girls were all doing the hair and make up thing, but just like everyone else the winds made it impossible to fish.

My brothers family from Fla. came back with us on Sunday and we were hoping to squeeze in a trip before he had to fly home on Monday night. Sunday night the winds were still blasting we we got down. Got out this morning with zero wind. Left the dock a little after 5:00 a.m. with flat dead calm and no rain in forecast till afternoon.

Got out about an hour later than I wanted to, but it looked great.

Went straight to the inlet and had it all to ourselves. My brothers first cast with a plug and he lost a small blue at the boat. About my third cast I landed a 22 in bass using 750 sinking line and good size Chart/Yellow fly.


Shortly thereafter I got another and my brother caught his first and second. It was a beautiful sunrise and thinking it might get hot.

Tried the other rock pile and we picked up 4 more bass, all about the same size and we missed maybe 3 or 4.


Decided to work the beach front for some weakies and bass. On the way there it started to drizzle. So much for the p.m. predicted showers.
Had one herring there and the water was super clean.

Decided to hit the backbay flats with the incoming tide and heavy over cast. Conditions looked perfect and now it was raining very hard. Gave my brother who was freezing my foulweather suit and I was the drowned rat. He had one swirl on a popping plug and I had one hit on the fly with no signs of bait with ideal conditions.

With heavy rain, with no end in sight we headed back to the dock at 8:15 with a total of 8 released bass. Soggy but fun morning.

[Dave Sikorski]

Congrats on the wedding.

And a wet day fishing is better than a wet day at work.

Thanks again for sharing!!!

-D

[CapeMayRay]

Peter and I left the dock at 5:00 a.m. this morning with the tide just starting to come in. Went out to the end of the inlet and told Peter to get ready for some nice action, anticipating a repeat of yesterday morning. First hour of fishing both rock piles 2 small hits that might of been blues.

Worked the beach area for an hour and I got two weakies 18 1/2 and 15 on small chart/yellow deceiver and a couple of missed fish and I was harassing Peter about pulling all the load. We usually antagonize the one not catching to give the other more incentive to catch. (both weakies were released)

Must of done a good job, but Peter never listens to the Captain. We headed back to the inlet where birds were working on small blues chasing bait. He was to get a blue and a fluke and I was to get a bass.

He got me back for my harassment. He caught 6 bass to 24 inches in the next hour to my zero and he missed a few to boot. I was using a bigger fly and heavier sinking line, that worked well yesterday when it was cloudy and would get a few hits but no hook ups. Once even had 2 and 3 fish chase my fly to the boat only to swim off. I switched to the same fly as he and intermediate line. Only difference we could see was my line intermediate was much lighter color and really showed in the clear water. All the fish were in the first 10 feet away from the rocks and we were casting side by side and it was bright and sunny.

Here is a shot of one of the smaller bass and the hot fly of the day.

To make things worse Peter even had a nice keeper size bass follow up behind his hooked as I was netting his fish just so I could see what I was missing. He kicked some bass and came in strong up the stretch.

[HOLWACHAGOT]

Pretty pics of a "Red sky at Morning"... Thanks for the report.

[flies only]

thanks for the photos ray congrats . would love to be your son in law !!!!!congrats on the wediing .