The W Gets Her First Striper

The W (pronounced dubb-yah) got her first Striper today.

TR and David have a sweet Boston Whaler so David and I took her out to see if we could apply the techniques we learned from John and catch our own stripers - and catch our own stripers we did. I wouldn't say it was the best day ever, but it was a great day for learning how to handle live bait and the logistics of multiple lines in the water while trolling. Check out our catch.

Once we got back to the dock I saw a few large mouth bass hangin' out so I decided to throw a line in and see if I'd get lucky.

North Carolina Trout 4-20-08

This particular river has been good to Carolina Guys and Flies so we will not mention its name. If you have fished it before you may recognize it from the video and pictures. April 20th was another good day for us. We caught each of the three species the river holds: Brown, Rainbow and the native Brookie. Chris caught the first fish of the day, it was a 12 inch bow. TR got into a hole above the bridge you see in the pictures that produced 3 fish in a row in only around 7 to 8 casts. You can see TR in the back ground of the second picture with a fish he hooked into shortly after Chris caught his first one. I caught one of the bigger brookies i have seen in the blue ridge mountains, you can see the fish in the net. This has quickly become our favorite trout steam in the area. This time of year the fish love anything underwater. Most of our fish are caught on extremely bright patterns or very dark steamers.