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Dave,
Could you see them eating the sand crabs?
Curious as I am heading to saltwater flyfishing I guess in Hawaii. I have
never done it and wonder how you know what they are feeding on. Is the
sand crab a normal diet, etc?
Mike
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Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 10:58
AM
Subject: [VFB] Salty sight fishing
I had a fantastic short day
yesterday on the beach. I and a friend ventured down the coast a bit in search
of Corbina. Well ok, the day was gear toward catching ANYTHING (yes I would
have even taken something already on the stringer). After blind casting for an
hour, I happened to start actually looking where I was walking, there in the
water almost at my feet was a small school of Corbina ranging from
14� to a lot bigger. There was a trough that they were staying in that ran
along the beach in about 1-2 feet of water. I adjusted my leader and added
another 8 feet of 10# fluorocarbon for a total of 18�. Both my bud and I
started trying to lead these fish as they swam through the trough eating sand crabs as they went
along. I tried everything in my box in the next 3 hours; I did finally get a
grab with an olive and white/pearl clouser. The was it, 4 hours of fishing and
3 of it fishing to fish that I could see and was casting to. These fish once
you get them on the hook, as Dean Endress can
attest to, are capable of fantastic reel screaming fights, but not for me that
day. Now to tye as many different sand crab imitations as I can
�..
Dave Wilson
http://www.wilsonsworld.org
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