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DrKyle1

Ok, I have converted from fresh water fly fishing to salt water fishing & fly fishing. The last 3 times I have been to corpus I have been skunked!!! As I am getting a bit discouraged... I booked a trip to go stab some flounder and got skunked due to weather... Randy (guide) mentioned something about tornados and not up to going out... what a wuss *KIDDING* Here is my question... the Holy Grail & I know if it was easy it would be called catching not fishing... I have used live shrimp, dead, fishbites, lures... I am about to trade it all in for knitting needles!!! I have been to the jetties, fishpackery area, St. Charles bay... and this weekend lake padre by the packery area... any and all viable help/suggestions/offers to buy equipment etc... I do both wade and yak fishing... well really just feeding something my shrimp!

jerry · Posted: Sun May 29, 2005 8:53 pm Post subject:

As far as yak/fly fishing get a hold of Dean at Slowrides guide service in Aransas Pass. I don't think there is anyone better and I think he has a class coming up soon.
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Big John · Posted: Sun May 29, 2005 10:09 pm Post subject:

If you want to catch fish on the beach, fly fish, call Billy Sandifer.

There is a link to his website under links on this page.

Check out his jack. That surely would have been a flyfishing record, but he released it! He's just that kind of guy.

He'll put you on the fish, on you won't find a more knowledgable guide to flyfish Big Shell and points south!
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dampole · Shark Wrangler Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Posts: 6

As always, be aware of the water and tide movement in the area you are fishing.
Pick your lures and patterns accordingly.
I perfer East Cut Flies, copper Scotts Spoon as well as the silver. Great on Reds and Black Drum. Present it properly and they cannot resist. I tie a loop knot to allow free movement of the spoon flys.
I also carry an assorted selection of rattle rousers. Trout love them.
I have caught Flounder and puppy Drum on the rattle rousers too.
Next thing is to pall up with someone that has been sucessful in the past and take a trip with them and pratice casting.

It all comes down to an old saying, Its the size of the tool and how it is used that brings sucess. I have seen times when standard equipment doesn't produce and the flies kick butt.

Keep your head up and forge on. It will happen and when it does, you better have a strong heart to endure the great experience. The first Red I hooked up with tested me as well as the equipment and the first run streched my line and imagination to their limits. I still get the goose bumps on the recall.

Enjoy the water and good luck on your next outting!
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GoinCoastal · Posted: Mon May 30, 2005 8:49 am Post subject:

Book a trip with Capt Dean Thomas at SLowride Guide Services in Aransas Pass. He specializes in redfish in skinny waters from a yak. He is a heck of flyfisherman and tyer too. He is a great teacher. If you want to hook up with a red on the fly, call Dean!!!!!!

BTW - A redfish on the fly is sooooooooo COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!

A few other things on salt flyfishing.

PRACTICE YOUR CAST!!!!!!!!!! If you have a hard time shooting out the line get a line that will help you. Mastery Series HEADSTART is great for that. It is a weight forward line with all of its weight in the first 25' instead of 40'. You don't have to have as much line out to load the rod. You will need to shoot line out in a wind!!!!!

Spoon flies and rattle rouser work well as mentioned above. I use a lot of clousers too. And POPPERS!!!!!!!!!!!!! VIP poppers, hard body poppers, etc. Seaducers work very well and rattling shrimp too.

If you just wanna catch a fish on the fly......... Take your kayak to one of the canal neighborhoods after midnight one night. Tie up some clousers using glow-in-the-dark flashabou. Paddle the canals fishing the submerged green lights with those clousers. If you don't catch fish there, you can't and will not ever catch a saltwater fish on the fly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It really is that SURE of a thang!
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DrKyle1 · Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 12:01 pm Post subject:

Thanks all... I think I will book that trip with slow ride for the next time I can get over there.

David Ivanhoe · Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 2:26 pm Post subject:

Dr Kyle...GoinCoastal is too cool. helpful, etc..taking his time to provide info, etc.. He told me the same about Dean..My son and I will be down in a week or so and plan to drop by and meet Dean to say hello. bottomline...if GC says it.....you won't go wrong. !!
Dave
this board is blessed with so many such dudes...too many to mention...Charlie Golla/Big John, etc.
thanks as always

Lefty Ray · Finger Mullet Joined: 20 Aug 2004 Posts: 62

Check this link. It has the flies I use while guiding via kayak and at the jetties. http://www.leftyray.com/flypage.htm

I also have a kayak seminar coming up in August for fly fishers. This is the original kayak fishing seminar on the Texas coast. http://www.leftyray.com/2005Seminars.htm

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tyler · Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 10:52 am Post subject: Billy also has a Hell's Bay