[Grampa Dave]

I don't know about surf casting. My son and I will catch more stripers on the California Delta in two hours than all the bait and hardward chunkers who surround us and out number us 100 to 2!

A year ago the Friday after Thanksgiving, he and I caught and released 12 stripers in a little over 30 minutes in an area that had over 100 bait and hard ware chunkers! This 100 bait and gear chunkers caught zero fish before we got there and zero during the time we were catching them!

The dumb ones booed us. The smart ones asked to see what his flies looked like and what rods and lines we were using!

Ken Hanley is apparently getting ready to come out with a new book on how to use Spey rods to cast in the West Coast Surf with flies for Stripers and other ocean fish! People who have seen him and a couple of other famous flyfishers use their Spey Rods and flies can't believe their results!

[fish hawk]

A few years ago I was flying to the Mainland from Maui. I spotted an old friend from Eureka and asked where he had been. He blongs to a fly fishing club in Eureka and they were returning from a fly fishing jaunt in the south sea islands. He said they had a wonderful time. That was the first time I had heard of fly fishing in the ocean.

[fish hawk]

A couple fish nuts
Are turning a Haiku thread
Into a sports show.

[LN2Campy]

hey -- no arguing with success!!