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putawaywet · Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 8:55 am Post subject: Your best salt fish on a fly?

Mine would be an 18" trout that I 'blindcasted' in the Mansfield channel in 1996. I've got numerous rat reds and dink trout under the lights but thats my personel best.
Landed lots of white, black bass, perch and bluegill but after 14 years of flyfishing I'm still a novice.
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marcus1977 · Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 2:48 pm Post subject:

I will have to brag for a friend of mine as I still haven't learned to fly fish. I have been with him several times last year when he caught upper slot limits of reds all on his fly rod. I know of at least four 28" reds from last year on his fly rod.
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RPool · Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 11:46 am Post subject:

I don't know about the largest, but the most memorable was a 31" red with big shoulders I caught last summer out of a tailing pod using a popper. One twitch and she came bolting to the surface, crushing the fly with a thermonuclear strike - really violent and totally cool. The entire pod followed her in for the release. This popper, by the way, is far and away the best I've ever used and now is the only one I carry. It was designed by Capt. Scott Sparrow of LLM fame and is called the VIP popper. It has a foam body and lands like a feather. You can buy them from his website or, better yet, download the tying instructions there as well (http://www.lagunamadre.net/flies.htm) - very easy to tie.

lagunaflyoutfitters · Horse Mullet Joined: 23 Mar 2006 Posts: 127

agree with you on the vip. my wife caught her record trout on one they are easy to tie and scott is agood guy. after a while i most remember the ones that snubbed me or spit it back at me. my nine year old caught a huge drum on the fly last year at sulfur road easy 12 plus lbs.

Brett · Joined: 02 Mar 2007 Posts: 4 Location: Austin

Caught the jack last year with Scott Graham. The red was last week with Randy Charba.

Jay Gardner AKA snookered · Guest

well can't find my pictures, but have caught numerous redfish to 30" stalking the flats, and a fair amount of black drum doing the same......most memorable fish is probably a 24" trout last summer in ankle deep water....[/url]

topdog15 · Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 12:32 pm Post subject:

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topdog15 · Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 10:47 am Post subject:

that's better.
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Jay Gardner AKA snookered · Guest

phone-camera......will get much better shots with the fly rod this year with the digital.....just need some decent weekend weather when I don't have something going on!!

Big John · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 07 Mar 2006 Posts: 2647

Have never tried fly fishing in the salt water, but as a kid I used to catch carp on fly rods left and right at the lake. Biggest went well over 40 lbs!
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lagunaflyoutfitters · Horse Mullet Joined: 23 Mar 2006 Posts: 127

2 yesterday to the boat 2 lost yeeha