VERY GOOD DAY AT THE VILLE!!!!!

Saltwater Fly-Fishing
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Wow… Just Wow… Ok So some of you know Austin, he is the Maintenance guy who was deployed with me and I taught him to fly fish over in Iraq… I bragged and bragged about reds OTF at the Ville and since we have been back I have been trying to get him on a refish OTF, (off the fly, on a spinning rod, with a net… ANYWAY I wanted him to catch one) since MAY… Today we struck Paydirt!!! We arrived at the Ville… 2 hours before high… got out to the flat I was hoping would have fish and low and behold we saw 25 tails in the first 5 minutes… I had a rather LARGE red spook, run toward my kayak and hit it so hard he knocked my yak up on one side and there was a distinct THUMP as he hit me :shock: … AWESOME!!! :smiley: :smiley: :smiley: :lol: :lol: :lol: We bailed out of the boats and i had a fly in the mouth of a red in about 10 minutes… got a little trigger happy and pulled the fly away and the fish spooked… Austin was working around the left side and casting at fish but no luck… I moved down the flat and saw yet another tail… got the fly perfectly out there and WHAM he dove on it and took off… Again I was a little amped up and horsed him a little and SNAP… and my day was pretty much done… I got a few more shots at a few but no more takers… I went 0 for 2 today BUT… I dragged Austin over and showed him where to start puttin the sneak on… I saw another tail and started movin in and I hear “WHOO HOOOOOOOO FISH ON!!!” but it sounds like a little kid… I look back and there is Austin, rod bent in half and dancin around… He fought it like a pro and finally nabbed the little sucker… 20" red and a pretty fish all around! This is Austins First Redfish, 1st Salt fish OTF, First Red OTF, First Grass Bass and ALL on the fly he tied himself!!! MAN … what an AWESOME day… Here is Austin and his prize :wink:

“Paddle faster boys… I hear banjo music!”
Charleston Director- SCKayakfishing.com
Tarpon 160os
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way to go papa Spumonti

There is nothing - absolutely nothing- half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. Kenneth Grahame

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dont it feel good

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Good job, and congrats!!! You will have many, but you never forget your first!

“Fishing is alot like sex…when its good,it’s really good, and when its bad, its still pretty good.”

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great job. that is some awesome looking water. i am going to give it a go today. the tides here have been horrible for 1.5 months.
hopefully i will be able to get out over the next week and hook a couple.
chris.

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the week around 23 August has some killer flood tides… 23 Aug I will be stalking the flats again :wink:

“Paddle faster boys… I hear banjo music!”
Charleston Director- SCKayakfishing.com
Tarpon 160os

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way to go Austio!!

www.flyfishingsc.com

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Good job!

Pillage and plunder with a 9wt and a fist full of clousers.

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Ken, I thought you would have taught him to bite the glass, not the cork!

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Good fish and great fishing story, as always. I especially like the part about you going 0 for 2. :smiley: The good part is I know it has you more motivated to go back out there and show them who is boss. PS sorry I stole your picture.

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Well he is a corksucker :wink: especially after he showed me up… he did the same thing to me in Iraq :wink: We are actually heading out tomorrow afternoon to hit up the 6.2 high… gonna try and not horse 'em this time and see if I can keep one on :wink:

“Paddle faster boys… I hear banjo music!”
Charleston Director- SCKayakfishing.com
Tarpon 160os

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Originally posted by nikonjedi

Well he is a corksucker :wink: especially after he showed me up… he did the same thing to me in Iraq :wink: We are actually heading out tomorrow afternoon to hit up the 6.2 high… gonna try and not horse 'em this time and see if I can keep one on :wink:

“Paddle faster boys… I hear banjo music!”
Charleston Director- SCKayakfishing.com
Tarpon 160os

My money is on YOU. :smiley: