Back In The USA - Part 3

Fishings been fairly steady from the beach with fish coming to the fly at a steady pace, unfortunatley they are mostly jacks, ladyfish and pin fish. There have been a few decent pulls and cleans snap offs so I can only presume that these are the spanish mackeral that are cruising by, I just need a few of them to stay on the hook.

Spent the half a day out with Capt Chad Gamble of Hook and Ladder Charters fishing for mackeral, sharks, red fish snook and trout.

Get the fly in quick theres a shark on the line

First stop was out in the Gulf where we were closely followed by a big dolphin that stayed along side us  for quite a while, I'm sure he was looking for an easy meal. Fish were up but trying to keep them on was the issue. The bite was on with the sharks as well as we had 3 screaming runs without managing to land a fish. No matter how hard he tried Mike couldn't get them to stay on the hook without biting through the wire leader, the most spectacular was the spinner shark that just went airbourne before cutting the trace. System was scaled up but they then grew shy of it and the bite stopped.

Time to move into the bays and chase the reds, snook and trout. Reds proved illusive all session and we only had one big snook take hold of the bait my wife had on only for it to throw the hook on the strike, a nice fish sadly lost.

Mrs G with a trout

Trout then became the species to taget and they were coming tp the boat think and fast but all under the 'slot' size. Mike managed a keeper, whilst my wife lost another keeper at the boat, it was just one of those days.

We also had a strange catch for the bay, a Remora, boy can they stick themselves to things.

Beach fishing has proved hard these last few days with very high winds and seas but fish are still there maybe not the ones I'd like but its still a pull on the line.

Watch out for the next installment of 'Back In The USA'

For more photos and fishing course information visit us on our Facebook page Cheshire Fly Fish or web site www.cheshireflyfishing.co.uk.

Tight Lines