Showing posts with label Scott F2 723/4 JS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scott F2 723/4 JS. Show all posts
Saturday, September 13, 2014
Fishing Report 9/13/2014
I went out three times today. First was with an ultralight weight 3wt flyrod - the Scott JS F2 7234. I did not get the attention of anything - first with a small popper and then a subsurface foam fly... not even a look-see-nibble. I did not even bother taking a picture - let's leave that alone (although casting that rod is fun - the more I cast it though, the more I can feel that it needs a perfect casting stroke - this one gives no mercy. I think I need to appease it with some bluegill... stay tuned for that - I've got just the spot).
We shifted gears and spent about four hours hanging out at the beach - just North of the 'Poles' surf spot. I brought the St Croix 10' Surf Rod and caught a couple of whiting.

As the tide started coming in I also saw a bunch of other animals coming onto the sand flat. This stingray was one of them, as were a live horseshoe crab, a crap ton of mullet (most of which had scars from predatory fish encounters) and several smaller whiting.

And late in the afternoon, Marlon and I hit the jetty to see what we could find. We ended up catching a bunch of blennies, some spottail pinfish and a few black sea bass (mind you these are all smaller fish - we're just there having a good time with some ultralight weight spinning rods). We saw a couple of green sea turtles to top it all off.

Tomorrow we have a pretty cool expedition planned -
Sunday, August 10, 2014
Fishing Report 8/10/2014
I've really been jonesing to get this rod out on the water - the Scott F2 "Japan Special". I finally found a place to test it out and lined it up with a RIO Gold WF3. Picked up two Bluegill from a lake with brackish water. The coloration was different on these guys - more silver and a lot less orange. The guys sharing the dock with me was pulling up blue crabs and I saw a bunch of mullet jumping. Peering into the water, I saw several fingerling bass - none big enough to take my fly, but they were in the lake. 




This Scott is very sssssslllllloooooooooooooooowwwwwwww - you need to really let the rod do the work or your casts will not unfurl the line. I did not get a chance to try the rod out with a DT3, but I'll keep my eye out for other ponds once we settle in down south (WHO AM I KIDDING - INDIAN RIVER BOUND and I plan on stalking with an 8wt in hand during the waking hours!!!!)


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