FLY ROD KEEPERS in AM, Small Blues in PM

August 22nd, 2010 |

Author: baymen

Capt. Dave’s

BAYMEN Fishing Report – Duxbury Plymouth Kingston Massachusetts

www.baymencharters.com (781) 934-2838

Weekend Report August 22

YESTERDAY MORNING

On board yesterday morning, I had good friend and repeat client, Richard Comstock of New York. Richard is a hard-core fly rodder. No other gear allowed on the boat! Richard has been fishing with me for many years and fishes with me several times a season. Yesterday, he brought sunflower seeds, his new fishing hat ( a gift from his good friends in Atlanta), and his fly rods with floating, intermediate, and sinking lines. At first light, we were treated to a stunning sunrise in paradise. I never, ever get tired of seeing that and can’t resist taking a few pictures.

It was another flat-calm, lovely morning on the water. We have had the season of seasons for weather this year. High tides took us up tight to shore and down bay into Plymouth where we found tons of top-water striped bass working under birds (thanks, Ian!). They were skittish and very spooky of the boat noise. But we were relentless, however, and Richard put his fly into breaking fish consistently.

We also figured out that many fish were hugging the bottom in 7-12 feet of water and used the cast and count technique to get the fly down to them. The fly of choice this morning was Capt. Dave’s Baymen Universal. They hammered it!

I also want to say, I fought back emotions as I tied on a fly by the Late John Cook of Duxbury. John gave me one of his fly patterns in my shop about nine years ago. John was a superb fly rodder and fly tier and would stop by Baymen Outfitters from time to time to swap fishing stories. He tied a small gray and white minnow pattern with a braided head, that has caught striped bass in our bay when nothing else will. The pattern I had was one he had tied up just before he passed away, and the striped bass slammed it yesterday morning. The photos tell the rest of story and my charter, Richard Comstock, was in good trim and on his mark. He is a superb fly caster!

YESTERDAY EVENING

What a difference a few hours and a change of tide can make. The winds turned EAST on us for the evening charter and I was a little concerned it may slow the bite. “Winds from the East, fishing the least…” Jack Manly, his son-in-law, and his grandson (9 years old) from CT. were on board for our evening charter. Cool, chilly winds on the dead-low incoming tide. But, last week in east winds, I had a soldier on board from Iraq, and his three children, and the bass were stacked up! So, I was hopeful again this evening… We worked around the bay and saw no top-water action to speak of. We started to fish some structure on the incoming tide and on my demo cast to demonstrate the Baymen Bounce with the rubber crank baits, WHAM! Fish on! It was a cocktail blue and for the next hour, my charters hammered the small blues and Matt, the grandson, had a ball!

After catching all the blues we wanted, we moved around the bay with light tackle in search of bass. Matt boated one bass in two feet of water. Then, I decided we better fish some bait in the usual spots to hook into some big bass for the cooler. We hit three tried and true spots around the bay and it was hopeless. The EAST winds shut the bite down cold and the bass were no where to be found. We filleted our blues and Matt and his father enjoyed some bluefish sushi and also took home a bunch of fillets for the grill. A chilly evening, but we made the best of it and had a lot of fun!

East winds and rain on tap for most of the week ahead. We are watching the weather carefully and will post our reports and photos on the BAYMEN website at www.baymencharters.com each day for the rest of the season. Please pass the word… And if you are heading out this week, best of luck!