took work off tues, left cola @ 430 am. approaching my flat on the nucanoe at 7:30. lots of surface movement. get staged before i wade in? nah, i’m going now. next thing i know, three tails, one @ 35 ft slowly but surely closing right at me. rod ready? nope–fly has come through tip guide, line wrapped around the tip in a gordian knot. fudge. tail is @ twelve feet, then gone. me w/ my [rod] in my hand.
also learned theres such a thing as too high of a tide for a flat. knew this one floods best @ 5.7, figured at 6.7 i’d just have to give up an hour at peak tide. turned out to be 2.5 hours of water just too deep to see anything on the surface. drank beer, walked around a lot, saw a couple does. when the right depth came around, super tide moved so fast the water was gone in like thirty minutes. eerily quiet, nothing moving. will make corrections for my next trip.