sounds great dean, wish I could have been there . JOhn
Dean Endress <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > � �JOHN, > � As much as I STRONGLY DISLIKE any & all members of PETA, I agree. so here you go... > �I woke at 4:55am... Loaded up & drove for 35 minutes to Trancas Beach. It was the >typical overcast for the Coast..(Anyone who thinks living at the Beach means eternal >Sunshine....your dead wrong!!!) I rigged up & put on my Gortex waders , along with >the Chota"flats Boots" & hit the beach. it was desending tide, but sometimes that can >mean great fishing...it just all depends. > Working a "Orange Surf Rat" pattern I had �a few "Tap-tap-taps"; a sure sign Perch >are around. 20 minutes into the fishing I hook up on Barred Surf Perch #1... a >scrappy 10 incher... Fun, Oh Yes!!! > Quickly releasing that Perch i keep working the surf, you have to ply every place >you even think remotely might hold a fish.. 6 minutes later...Bam!! Perch >#2....another 10 incher... they will always be about the same size in any give >stretch of beach. A quick release & I'm back casting away... this time I've switched >to a "Brown Surf Rat"... brown can be a deadly colour in the local surf. �Afew more >casts & again another 10 inch Barred Surf perch...(these are all guess-timents, I >don't carry a tape measure, but they are somewhat longer than my 8wts. rod handle & >that goes about 8 inches...). > �Perch are great because it's almost a certian that they will attack your fly if >it's in the Water... saves your butt from being aced out by CORBINA... > � The overcast is starting to burn off, it's about 9:00 am... Damn!!! �sunshine will >slow down the fishing(sometimes), but even worse it brings out the Sun Bathers,Boogie >Boarders, Surfers & about every other beach comber you can think �of.... We >Flyfishers LOVE overcast days, everyone else dislikes them strongly. So now I gotta >watch about every back cast so i don't hook a beach comber... With the Sun shining >bright & the tide bottoming out and churning up the shore , the fishing dropped off >to nothing... > �I left for home about 10:15 am... Tally for the day: 3 Barred Surf Perch & one >solid take that was probally a Halibut, but we will never know as it popped off right >away... all in all a FUN morning in the Surf... > � �DEAN... > � > > > >--------------------------------- >Do You Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Autos - Get free new car price quotes >
