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Originally posted by Coltheres one i caught at the dock…
</font id=“quote”></blockquote id=“quote”>Colt, you wern’t using that fly rod like a cane pole… were you? Bamboo is a lot cheaper to use than a carbon fiber rod.
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nah man, i was dead driftin shrimp nymphin
“dead driftin shrimp nymphin”
18’ CC w/ 115 Yami
thats cute
thats funny ifly… catchin’ one around a dock and sight fishing one on a flat are two WAY different things… still a cool catch colt. Ive cast at hundreds… never got an eat… but then again i’m not very good I guess… I did cast at a sheep once and watch a red that I didn’t even know was in the area charge over and kill the fly from like 10 feet away… that was cool…
Mad Mike
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quote:Yep. Plus, Colt can take a little ribbing. :wink:
Originally posted by Mad_Mikethats funny ifly… catchin’ one around a dock and sight fishing one on a flat are two WAY different things… still a cool catch colt. Ive cast at hundreds… never got an eat… but then again i’m not very good I guess… I did cast at a sheep once and watch a red that I didn’t even know was in the area charge over and kill the fly from like 10 feet away… that was cool…
Mad Mike
"to hell with insane… I’m OUTsane!!! "
You notice I didn’t say anything about him using his little sister’s pink fly line?
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Saw a convict fish on the flat this am. He came right up to the fly looked at it and slowly swam off.
Another swing and a miss.
Saw a convict fish on the flat this am. He came right up to the fly looked at it and slowly swam off.
Another swing and a miss.
“Saw a convict fish on the flat this am. He came right up to the fly looked at it and slowly swam off.”
That’s been my experience with them also.
they WILL eat a fly!! takes alot of luck, a cast right on his head permit style (close enough to either spook fish or get a reaction strike), and a fly with some crunch (epoxy), have seen them, on a few occasions, eat and spit a fly w/o angler ever feeling a thing. they dont inhale fly like red, nip at it. they expect some crunch when eating a fiddler and they will instantly spit a soft fake, sometimes fly comes back sans splayed hackle on 1 side.
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Both fish I hooked were a very gentle take and they tipped up like a permit.
Couldn’t even feel the take but could see them and know they had the fly.
Both lit into a blistering run…one cut me off and the other spit the fly.
Both were on a rattle shrimp pattern I have been tying for a while.
Water was very clear and calm…the cast was about 6 feet in front of them both and I let it drop straight to the bottom and didn’t move the fly.
If anyone is interested the upper wando has had alot of sheeps tailing this year. I have found myself chasing them several times confused as to why the “REDS” were taking none of my offerings only to find i was chasing schools of sheepheads.
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I know someone who has done it. They’ve done it sight fishing feeding slabs when they are turned sideways chewing on barnacles and crabs on pilings. It was described to me as a VERY soft presentation of a slightly weighted crab fly next to the piling. Timing is everything!
On another note: I think that most of the striped fish in the flats are definitely blackies (I’m not saying that sheepies don’t get in the grass-I just think it’s unlikely). I have thrown dead shrimp at them in the flats and brought home dinner on more than one occasion. They have ALL been blackies. Just my thoughts.
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ive seen lots of SH tailing lately and some bigguns! ive been tossing a sidearm cast-they blow out real easy on the 1st backcast sometimes. i saw an interesting “crunchy” sheep fly in a older fly tier mag. the carapace was a pheasant back feather coated with epoxy. the color variations on the feather are amazing.
sup Roman! welcome to CF!
fominroman- On another note: I think that most of the striped fish in the flats are definitely blackies (I’m not saying that sheepies don’t get in the grass-I just think it’s unlikely).
Ive seen hundreds… litterally hundreds… its not unlikely, hell on the right flat they’re a down right nuicense… And I know the difference in a convict and a blackie… Ive seen way more sheeps in the grass than blackies BTW…
Mad Mike
"to hell with insane… I’m OUTsane!!! "
I’m with you Mike…way more sheeps than drum on the flats!
I know of several flats I could go to on any flood tide and find sheeps.
I really need to make it a point to go target them now with all this talk about it and finish the deal!!
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Originally posted by Coltheres one i caught at the dock on the supreme hair shrimp.
That’s pretty impressive!
I would love to be on the flats, as usual hunting for reds…and then just get surprised by that! Sheeps on the flat!..especially if I were to hook em OTF! Wow!
Nice size sheepshead too!
Here’s another forum with the same debate!
http://forums.capmel.com/printthread?id=3353789
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Originally posted by fominromanHere’s another forum with the same debate!..
</font id=“quote”></blockquote id=“quote”>What debate? Except for Colt catching that sheepshead with his $500 cane pole, no one is saying they catch sheepshead with a fly rod.
Well… some people say they do it but… somehow when it happens their cel phone camera stops working? [:0]
18’ CC w/ 115 Yami