Hit the big flood yesterday for a quick tailing trip. I didn’t get out early enough for the incoming. They weren’t on my first two go to flats, so when the water started moving out I moved to my favorite falling tailing tide spot. They were there, mostly cruisers but found a couple of tailers and crawlers. Landed three on copperheads and missed 3 or 4 other eats. I busted out the camera for the most aggressively tailing one, didn’t get a full tailing shot but the water was clear enough for a decent shot as he lazily swam to within two feet of the boat.
“In every species of fish I’ve angled for, it is the ones that have got away that thrill me the most, the ones that keep fresh in my memory. So I say it is good to lose fish. If we didn’t, much of the thrill of angling would be gone.” Ray Bergman
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Hey y’all, check out Chuck-n-Duck’s (Jason Stemple) photo featured in the latest issue of Catch magazine! www.catchmagazine.net
It is in the section “The colors of flyfishing, Part two - Blue” Its page 6 of that section, a beautiful pic of a tailer. Great job Jason!
FYI Jason generously donated one of his pics to our SSWA website (www.sswaonline.com), and it really “classed” our site up!
Chuck…Excellent pictures…you have talent. I’ve always been facinated by the electric blue color on the edge of a spottail’s tail. You absolutely nailed it in these pictures. I’ll say it again for emphasis…you’ve got talent dude!
Thanks again everyone, I hopefully will have more coming soon in Catch and my first of several articles, this one on Kiawah, just came out in the Nov/Dec Eastern Fly Fishing as well.
Gear-wise, I shoot with Nikon equipment, a D700 and a D300s. Most of my newer tailing shots are shot with the D300s with a 300mm f4 lens (sometimes with a 1.4x multiplier on it). The D300s also has a extra battery pack attached which lets me shoot around 8 frames per second.
The hardest part about shooting tails is not casting, the fish stay pretty happy when you don’t throw stuff at their faces.
where i am, just a few cruisin and layin left.