Posted on 07/28/2017 4:22:16 AM PDT by Trumpnation
This drone perspective on tarpon fishing is amazing, especially when you can see all of those silver kinds swimming around.
I read the title as ‘TAMPON drone fly fishing.”
Need coffee
He’s fishing...but he ain’t catching.
You need to go fishing. Today.
With tampons?
PING!!
It looks like it’ll be a crazy day so start it out with something GOOD!!!
No. Not tampons.
I can tell you that worms work better than tampons.
Tampons are more for putting a nice shine on the boat after a day on the salty seas. Aaargh!
I don’t get fly rods/reels. You’re trying to reel in fish with a primitive reel. I can see it may be challenging but so can fishing with spinners and bait casters.
I’m thinking you can use the drone to drop your bait where the fish are congregated.
But that’s the way I think. I practice fillet and release.
I’ve never fly-fished on salt-water.
I’d like to, but these days even hiring a guide and driftboat on the Yellowstone is a $500 proposition.
So I wade-fish, and almost exclusively in the early spring or late fall, or even in the winter months, because those are the times you can go all day and never see another person.
Fly-fishing isn’t reely about the reel, so to speak. It’s more about finding the right water and getting the right fly to the fish.
For an OCD guy like me, the reel appeel of fly-fishing is the constant, steady motion, cast after cast after cast, always trying to reach just the right spot, and that so much of the action is visual...you throw the fly, watch it, watch your line, and see the fish strike.
Then you do it again. Cast after cast. As I say, it accords somehow with my compulsion to do something just right, and also provides the ongoing sights and sounds.
The gear these days, waders and boots and so on, also make it a damned pleasure to be in the water, in the current. Who doesn’t love the perpetual push and tug of a clear mountain stream?
My father, a walleye fisherman, always shook his head at the size (small, ‘cause I usually fish small rivers) and the concept letting the damn things go.
But dead trout don’t travel well, and if you aren’t going to eat them right there on the spot, it doesn’t make sense to keep them.
Death rate for trout released after catching is 1.4% so they do live to be caught again.
Per USFS.
Right on, ‘specially if you used barbless hooks, handle ‘em gently, etc.
Its all how you handle the fish.We have fish down here that if you pick it up out of the water and release it the protective slime comes off.Two weeks later you can see where the fish was picked up on his body.Best way for game fish to be released.Leave them in the water take fishing pliers and reverse the hook out of their mouth never touching the fish.
Then you can catch them another day.
It would also seem that fly fishing is a lot of work.
I’d spill my beer frantically slinging that rod all back and forth.
I suspect the “a river runs through it” crowd get a sense of satisfaction in it. I wish them well.
I grew up, literally next door to the inshore waters of the Atlantic. As a kid we’d fish for fun all day. We’d release the shorts....but always take home the good size fish. There was no size or amount allowed limits then. We knew what was too small and quit when we had enough for dinner.
The dragers and purse seiners have done a good job of decimating the stocks. Still when seasonal runs of fish come in, there can be good fishing. By the way, they restrict sport fishermens catch but it’s the commercial guys who catch all and when restricted fish are caught, throw the dead corpses back.
I do miss me my salt water in the NY Bight.
Different fish as the seasons change. Cod, pollock, whiting and ling when it’s cold followed by flounder as winter ends. Blackfish when the lilacs bloom. Stripers moving in from the Hudson. Mackerel and herring being chased North by bluefish that will stay ‘till late fall. Fluke, porgy, black sea bass and weakfish through the summer also. Then comes the magic that is the month of October. Everything is feeding up for the migration and here come the tuna at the canyons. The Oct. weather is also what I love....jacket at dawn, T-shirt by noon.
Now it’s pretty much just bass fishing for me. I don’t like bait fishing in fresh water, and my hip has stopped me from hitting the rivers and tailwaters for trout. (gettin’ old ain’t for sissys) I now always fish from an off-set seat on the bow of my little bass boat. I fish for muskie also, but the slim reward for the amount of work is not something I often have the patience for any longer.
I find it amazing the amount of knowledge I had acquired over more than a half century of fishing the brine. About where and when different species could be caught and on what. Whether from my boat, the shore, surf, pier, bridge or in the case of tuna, a head boat, I knew what to do. I lack that when it comes to bass. I’m getting better (sometimes), but it’s a slow process with what I now see is a very finite timeline......but all that changes when you feel that thump or see that blow-up.
Tight lines, Laddie.
I’ve never fished salt water, but I do love lake fishing for smallmouth bass. Fishing for trout in streams is fun, but it can be difficult footing. One of these days I’d like to try ocean fishing.
Dead of winter waiting for the night tide on the Coney Island pier....whiting!!! Snapppers in Sheapshead or Jamaica Bays. Tinkers coming through. “Trolling” a bridge with a worm on a three-way for the seldom seen striper back when the limit was 16”. Hearing the rumors that someone had caught a FLUKE! Reading about the hoards of weakfish from years gone by, not realizing that in a few years they would be back.
Fishing as a kid in and around NYC in the 50s was magical.
Yup my bailiwick was Eastchester bay in the Bronx. Where Long Island sound and the east river meet. Blackfish, (winter)flounder....tons of snappers caught on speering that we'd catch in window screen nets baited with cat food. We also would catch blue claw crabs in the filthy waters of the Bronx river. The 50s supplied some decent fishing there.
Once I finally moved to the Island in the 60s and owned boats from the 70s on I got to chase the fish. Fluke, Stripers, Bonita, bluefish. At 68, I'm Still having fun.
It’s not what it once was. (Yeah, I know. People say that about everything) If you want to catch, you pretty much have to pay for a head or charter boat or even a guide today. The head (party or open) boat industry in NYC has been decimated. Limits, pier costs, availability of parking have taken a toll. Sheapshead Bay was once a mecca for open boats but no longer. The other side of the harbor, in Jersey, still has a decent fleet as does Captree and Freeport on LI. I’m speaking for the NYC area (I left 15 years ago) to fish from shore, it’s hard to get near the water it’s been so built up.
You need to get some local knowledge, even when it comes to head boats. I worked them for a few years and I can tell you some are not in the “fishing” business at all. They’re in the “entertainment” business.....especially if you’re in a real touristy area. Try to find out what boats the locals fish on. They may not look all that spiffy, but the finny fish only see the bottoms. The two legged fish see the brightwork.
Rodguy911 might be the guy to contact when you decide on a time and area. He has a lot of contacts in the industry and NOT just in FL
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