After unsuccesfully giving up on fly fishing and trying to sell my stuff, I’ve decided to pick it back up and start fly fishing again while I’m at El Cid. I lost every fly I had except a white/yellow Clouser minnow. Any recommendations on what else might work? I realize the tailing redfish won’t be around for much longer but I’d still like to give it a try for the last little bit they’re in the marsh.
Saw 6 yesterday as I waded around but none that I casted at seemed interested in my Clouser or the Gulp shrimp I had on my spinning rod.
I like Tim Borski’s Chernobyl Crab - Laid Up Tarpon version. It is tied with lead eyes and a weed guard. It has produced extremely well in grass/weeds for me. Great large mouth fly also.
Where exactly do you wade at El Cid? My son’s there and I might want to fish it on an occaisional trip to Charleston.
Drop by the Charleston Angler and get Mad Mike to help you with a few good ones. I like a little different version of the copperhead that has a crab twist to it but a regular one is hard to beat. Gold or black dupree spoons are good also. Don’t hang it up because they leave the grass when the water gets cold. Low tide fishing is great in the winter and there are those fall trout trips under the lights!
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Rap, I drive by CA everday on my way to work downtown. Let me know if you want me to pick you up a few flies or other supplies and I’ll drop them by campus on my way.
Any fly that that you cast correctly and pull it across their path will get smoked. The most crucial point that I can add is to make sure you’re fly has some type of weedless capabilities. There is nothing worse than snagging a piece of spartina just as you’re about to pull the fly through the kill zone. That’s my pro tip.
I went to CA the other day and picked up some copperheads, a spoon, a shrimp pattern and some woolly mammoth looking thing. Hopefully, that’ll do me for a bit. NOW i just need to work on casting!
Any fly that that you cast correctly and pull it across their path will get smoked. The most crucial point that I can add is to make sure you’re fly has some type of weedless capabilities. There is nothing worse than snagging a piece of spartina just as you’re about to pull the fly through the kill zone. That’s my pro tip.
Roger that on the gold Dupree spoon. Best bet on the fly. I have had great results with Texas rigged yellow plastic worms as well. I can’t explain why the redfish went for them as they don’t remotely resemble any natural food source. If I had to guess, it would be the high visibility of the yellow worm. I’ve seen them bust the worms that were hung up in the grass just above the water line. Be sure to include a few feet of shock/bite tippet in your set up. The spartina grass is tenacious stuff.
Any fly that that you cast correctly and pull it across their path will get smoked. The most crucial point that I can add is to make sure you’re fly has some type of weedless capabilities. There is nothing worse than snagging a piece of spartina just as you’re about to pull the fly through the kill zone. That’s my pro tip.
Best piece of advice so far! Like the great Mark Krowka says: If you present it correctly they will take it to the colon every time. And "A redfish will eat a pototo if presented correctly"
