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#2 Make six turns with tag around the double line and through the circle. Hold double line at point where it passes through eye and pull tag to snug up turns.

#3 Now pull standing line to slide knot up against eye.

#4 Continue pulling until knot is tight. Trim tag end flush with coils of knot. Uni-knot will not slip.

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Andy keeps chasing and catching steelhead. Another nice fish Andy, WTG!

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As always it was a great turn out. I snapped some pictures while spending some time at the show for your viewing enjoyment. Good seeing everyone and catching up, look forward to seeing everyone on the water this year and at the 2012 Tie Fest next year!
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The first picture sums up the spirit of the event, everyone learns from one another (those not familiar, in the picture is fly fishing legend Lefty Kreh on the right, Bob Clouser (creator of the clouser minnow) standing up and Bob Popovics (said to be one of the most innovative saltwater fly tiers ever) at the fly tying vice.

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Capt. Cobia Hunter Ben, Sean S, and I gave it another whirl chasing cobia with the fly the other day in the inshore waters of the Virginia Beach, Va area. A few weeks go we tried, saw a bunch, but could not get one to eat the fly. Well, we did get a bunch to chase the fly at the end of the day, but the fun was spoiled by a buoy jack.

Wednesday night Capt. Ben and I talked and he said it looked like Thursday would be a decent day, that he had had good success he last few days catching them on light tackle and eels and that we should give it a go on Thursday. I said, “Game on!”. Packed my bag, rods and reels, and loaded up the car. Got up at 3am and made my way down to Owls Creek ramp where I arrived around 7am. We packed up the boat and headed out to find a good chop on the water. Original plan was to head southwest, but after getting pounded for a while we changed our plan, grabbed the following sea and made our way in more of a northernly track. We looked in the open water, we looked on the buoys, we casted the buoys, we looked some more, made some calls to only learn that no one really had been seeing anything. Jet Ski Brian said he saw one….things were not looking hopeful, but hey, that’s fishing for you.

We got a call from a fishing friend who said there might be a bite on red drum, given we’d beaten ourselves up looking all over we decided to give it a try, maybe catch a few, go in and grab lunch and head back out. Capt. Ben put the hammer down and we headed towards the area of the red drum report. We ran about ten minutes and all the sudden the boat comes off plane, I look up and Ben says there were four cobia he saw, they went under when the wake hit them, but that we should hang a few minutes and see if they come back up. Sure enough two minutes later they appear. Ben points them out, I have them in my sights. We slowing make our way over and I shoot a long backcast, but it falls behind them. I make another, miss again, the fish changed direction. We move a bit and I make a forward cast, line gets tangled, have to get it out, if the cob takes the fly and runs (if it runs lol) I’ll break him off.. Now I am pretty much messed up, I’m watching them with one eye and untangling with the other. Finally I get it undone, two cobia have moved out front, and two behind just a few feet. We sneak up a little further on them, I ask Ben to turn the bow to the right so I can get a long cast in, I shoot a long shot, it falls right in front of them, I make one twitch of the fly and the fish light up and go wild over it, they miss, I make another short strip and one of them jumps all over it, I set the hook and come tight….stuck’em! We’re all jacked up on the boat, but now comes the landing part…..I can see when the fish comes up to the surface that it does not look like it is hooked that well, I give it another hard set, but still do not feel good, fish runs at me and I wind like a mad man to keep it tight, finally he goes down and I stay tight. He starts making his way to the surface again and I feel like he is going to jump and all I am thinking if he makes a good jump he has a real chance to throw this hook…sure enough he jumps, but the hooks stays and I’m feeling better about landing this sucker. I wear the fish out a bit and finally it gets near the boat, I think this is it, but the fish makes another run. Few minutes later we finally land the rascal. Mission accomplished! To say we were all jacked up is an understatement, whenever I get a new species on the fly for the first time it always jacks me up . Good times!

We took some pics and headed to where we heard the red drum bite was, turns out there were no fish there, but it did not matter to us. We headed to the ramp and had a big lunch at Rudee’s. Later in the night I made my way over to Ross’s Harpoon Larry’s Seafood Bar. There I managed to catch up with local legend, Capt. Pete Bregant, who I had not seen in a while. The really sweet part of it was that I caught the cobia on a yak fly he tied and gave to me fifteen years ago on my very first trip fishing the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel (CBBT) area. Capt. Pete and Ron Russell took me out to show me what it was all about. Because of Capt. Pete and Ron introducing me to the great Virginia Beach fishery, I’ve had more adventures then I could have imagined fishing the area. I’ll remember this cobia on the fly adventure with Capt. Ben for a long time to come, and I will be back for more! Thanks Capt. Ben, you are part Cobia!

The Fly Fishing Equipment List of what I used:
Sage 10wt XP
Tibor Everglades Fly Reel
Rio Striper 250 line
leader: 2 feet of 30lb Ande fluorocarbon, 2 1/2 feet

A few pictures below (click for a larger version of the image)

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I met Barrett at Kau Tapen lodge last year while fishing in Patagonia/Terra Del Fuego, on the Rio Grande for sea run brown trout. I knew Barrett through another friend who was a guide and he guided Tom and I for three days and we had a good time. Barrett recently came out west with another friend/guide from Patagonia and we crashed at Toms house in Jackson and all fished a few days out west together. Barrett is from Seattle, WA but has family from PA and his grandmother as it turns out rented a house outside St. Micheals for his family for Thanksgiving. Barrette had never caught a striped bass before so it was only appropriate that we fix that while he was here on the shore. So yesterday Barrett and I headed out of the Tred Avon River around noon. The river water temps had definitely dropped since the last time I was out a week ago. My unit was reading in the lower 40’s in the Tred Avon and in the Choptank around Choptank Light. We had no marks as we rode out in the river, finally towards the mouth we saw a few big seagulls sitting and found some marks, but nothing I thought was worth trying, so we headed out towards the main bay. Looks north in the glasses along Tilghman and nada other then some guys setting new stakes for a pound net. Talked to one guy in a Parker who ran down from Annapolis area and he said he did not see any birds or breaking fish running all the way down. That was not good news, but I was still hopeful as the water temps warmed up a bit from the river coming in in the higher 40’s. We ran across to the radar towers and nothing, then we ran down the western side doing zig zags looking for marks. Saw a wad of trolling boats out from Parkers Creek and saw a few people hooked up, but did not looks like any big fish. Soooo we kept going south. Finally landed at the fish bowl (aka rips) and there were a bunch of boats there, but everything was working together and drifting and it all went well. We tried LTJ and I hooked one right away, not big but at least got the skunk out of the boat. We decided to pick up the fly rods and it was not long before I had one and then the big moment came, Barrett hooked up with his first striped bass and on the fly as a bonus. After a while we moved a little of the rips and managed to locate a nice school of fish that were suspended from the bottom up to about ten feet from the top of the water and we had steady action of the fly for about an hour and a half. The sun was making its way down to the trees around 3:50pm so I checked my lights to make sure everything was good, but my bow light was out and I did not have a spare bulb. Barrett hooked one more and we decided it would be safe and warmer to get to the ramp at sun down. We unhooked his striper, backed up and put the hammer down back to the ramp. It was a smooth ride all the way home and turned out to be a nice day on the water. No big fish, mostly all sub 18, but still good action on the fly and for Battett it was heaven with his first stripers.

Saw Step Child at the ramp who had a good day LTJing and it was nice talking to a bunch of fellow TFers on the radio.

Barrett and I are meeting our friend Tom tomorrow in Ft Lauderdaleare and then headed to South Andros in the Bahamas in the afternoon to go chase some bones for a few days. I’ll report from down there.

Good talking and seeing everyone out on the water yesterday! Save some stripers for me while I’m gone.

Brandon

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Do not put those boats away just yet, if you have not heard the Maryland Striped Bass Season has been extended through December 31st. The recent cold front has lowered water temperatures, but there are still breaking stripers to be found and trolling anglers are picking up some very nice stripers. If you are looking for the bigger striped bass make your way to the middle and lower Maryland portion of the bay. Check out the reports below for more.

(pictured:Shawn Kimbro with his faithful fishing friend along with a nice striped bass caught in the upper portion of Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay before the recent blow.

Maryland Fisheries News
The Chesapeake Bay Foundation is taking a hard stance on making sure the Chesapeake Bay has clean water and is suing the EPA. Read more here .

Weekend/Upcoming Fishing Events
Nothing in the way of fishing tournaments this coming week.

Maryland Fishing Reports
Upper Chesapeake Bay Region (Susquehanna River/Flats to Bay Bridge Waters)
Striped Bass fishing has been slow in and around the Susquehanna Flats area down the Poole’s Island area. There have been a few reports of anglers catching some fish on topwater working the shorelines, but it has been a few fish each trip and nothing too big. There are still some reports of breaking stripers in the waters out front of Rock Hall, but the stripers have been on the smaller size ranging from sub-legal to twenty one inches. The same thing has been reported in and around the mouth of the Chester River at Love Point. For a recent report from Shawn Kimbro click here

Mid Chesapeake Bay Region (Bay Bridge to Honga River Waters)
The middle Maryland portion of the bay has been hot for light tacking jigging as well as trolling anglers when they have been able to get out between fronts and strong winds. Breaking stripers have been showing up between Bloody Point all the way down to the mouth of the Little Choptank, with the concentration of breaking stripers from Poplar Island across the bay to Deale and south to the mouth of the Choptank and across on the western shore to in and around Parkers Creek.

There have been a lot of reports from the middle part of the bay from light tackle jiggers and trolling anglers. Check the Maryland Chesapeake Message Board for full reports with pictures.

Lower Maryland Chesapeake Bay (Honga River down to the Maryland /Virginia Line Waters)
Mike and Christy from Buzz’s Marina in Ridge buzzed in a report this week and saidMike and Christy from Buzz’s Marina in Ridge buzzed in a report this past week and said of a recent trip , “Jeff Popp brought the Vista Lady back and he had no problem finding the fish but he never seems to have one. He fished between 72 and 70. A local charter capt caught five fish a mile outside Point No Point Lighthouse right at the first drop off in an hours time. The fish are scattered but when you find bait, you find fish. Well over 20 boats launched here Sunday with only two or three skunks which is pretty good. The fish ranged from the high thirties to the mid forties on Sunday. All fat and healthy! Christy”

Watch this area for fishing to pick up until the end of the year. While not many anglers venture down in this part of the bay in December, it’s well known by the locals that the fishing can be spectacular.

Ocean City Maryland Offshore Fishing Reports

Ocean City Fishing Center reported:
The Striper fishing seems to be picking up. Quite a few keepers were caught this past weekend in the bay. The Tautog bite is still doing well. Capt. Monty on the Morning Star has been catching them in good numbers.

Sue Foster from Oyster Bay Tackle and Fenwick Tackle reported:
Big Blues! Fishing this week was great on big blues from the surf on
Wednesday and Thursday. Some nice stripers were caught as well from the

Route 50 Bridge, the waters close to the Bridge, and from the surf. Tautog were biting in their usual haunts. Then, the weather came upon us again and made fishing difficult. Anglers still caught some fish, but holding bottom in the surf was tough if not impossible, and winds dirtied the water in the bay by Sunday. The few days the party boats got out, fishing was productive.

Assateague surf produced a few nice stripers, one drum, and some bluefish from small to large. The weekend weather put a damper on the fishing, but mid-week it was good everywhere!
he big bluefish hit the Ocean City and Delaware Beaches on Wednesday and Thursday. Almost everyone that fished caught at least one nice one. Some stripers were also caught in the mix. The cameras at Oyster Bay and Fenwick Tackle were snapping!

Delaware Fishing Reports
There were some nice stripers, up to 44-inches, caught up by
the Cape Henelopen Point in the Del Seashore State Park mid-week. One angler came in to say they were snagging bunkers with treble hooks and chunking them up and catching big blues and nice stripers.
Clark from Old Inlet reports lots of short stripers in the Indian River Inlet with some keepers mixed in. Larger ones are just offshore. Stay within the 3 mile limit to be legal. Lots of tautog on the rocks in Indian River too.

That’s it for this week.

Remember to listen in to the Lateral Line Fishing Podcast for fishing reports and other fishing tips, tricks and information to help you catch more fish.

Until next week, good times,and good fishing!

Brandon
Chief Angler

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