r/SaltwaterFlyfishing

Worms are a super effective bait from the beach but I’ve never seen anyone using worm patterns on fly, are they not a thing? Has anyone here ever tried it? If so, how did it go? What worked and what didn’t
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Good morning Dirty Coast Crew!

Back with another report and this one gets really
interesting!

This weekend is going to be a GREAT weekend to go out at any
time and still catch fish! As long as you strategize it correctly!

Fri-Sunday we have 4 
tide movements throughout a 24hr period. What that means is that the
tides will be changing more frequently throughout the days, and water will be
moving a lot, pushing bait fish in and out of the marshes and bays. About every
4-5 hrs there is a tidal change expected. The winds will be about 5-15 mph most days with an exception for sunday.
Sunday winds will range from 3-10mph throughout the morning.
The key is to fish it correctly. Id fish the end of an
outgoing tide at the mouth of a large marsh or lake. This is when the most bait
will be congregated in a certain spot. This is also when the fish will be
starting to push bait fish back in to the marsh once slack tide is over with.
And the fish will most definitely follow!

The tide will be starting to drop at around 6am so as long
as you’re in the water by 6, you should be fine. Youd be traveing to the mouth of
your favorite marsh or lake during the slack tide and will still be able to catch the end of the
outgoing tide at around 11ish. Since the heat starts cranking up around that
time, it might be smart to be in an area with some shallows around and some
deep areas close by as well. Just so if one 
area doesn’t work, the other should. As long as the baitfish are there.
One important thing that a lot of people miss is if there
are a lot of baitfish but nothing blowing up on it, or no signs of feeding
fish, id leave and try somewhere else. You don’t necessarily have to move far
away from where you're currently at but a slight movement or readjustment makes
a lot of difference.

Lastly, don’t be afraid to launch out of a marina and not
fish around it before you leave. Could be a last spot for one last cast😉
Plenty of times, fishermen on boats or any craft will just
head out of the area and go toward a destination that is so much further away.
But if you think about all the fish guts and bones that get tossed at these areas
when fishermen fillet their fish, it makes sense to fish this. The strong smell
will attract baitfish and game fish to these areas/docks. And it doesn’t necessarily
have to be near the docks, you could just hit a nearby shoreline with some decent
structure and you’ll get on something! Last time I went out, as I was launching,
a dude next to me caught a red off the side of the launch area while waiting for
his buddy to get back in the boat.

Rigging

Id still use croaker, they are getting smoked left and right
anywhere and everywhere! But if you know how to use a cast net or how to target
piggy perch, id do that! Those suckers are candy for trout! Probably more so than
croaker. Lures, again, id stick to simple colors, pink, white, dark. Don’t overcomplicate
it. The reason most people don’t catch fish is because they spend more time
changing out lures than actually casting. I keep 2-3 poles on me if in a vessel
and if wading, I keep 1 rod with a snap on swivel unless im using a hardbait in the A.M.
The 2-3 poles are each rigged differently. My ideal set up
is one with a snap swivel for easy change out of plastics. I only use this rod
for plastics! My second pole will be rigged for a topwater or twitchbait, and my
last pole will be rigged with either a live bait rig if im getting live bait, and if
not then I will also have it with a swivel and plastic. Only difference is id have one dark
and one light plastic on these rods.

Lastly,
any feedbck or anything i can add or remove, let me know! Sorry for the long read today.
For some reason i was in a writing mood yesterday.

Sub for future reports

Hey Guys, would like some advise on what my next pair of sunnies should be. I’m currently running Mako Coverts and Maui Jim Local Kines for Blue/ green lense, but would like some glasses for cloudy days and dirty water. What are people using? Not sure to go with Tonic,Maui Jim, Mako, Costa or Smiths.

This is my first post to any of the forums dealing with shoulder pain/shoulder replacement surgery.

I am 69 years young, do not use tobacco/nicotine, 5'8" 180lbs, retired, right-hand dominant and remain very active, walking 3-5 miles 3 times a week and 3 days a week in the gym with program developed specifically for me by Exercise Physiologist. Unfortunately, I have severe DJD of my LEFT shoulder with half of the cartilage absent in the glenoid fossa, with bone on bone humeral head against the fleonoid fossa. Fortunately, my rotator cuff remains intact. I have had formal PT which I continue as part of my gym program; I have had two injections into the left shoulder and two into the left biceps tendon area, a total of four steroid injections each 3-6 months apart, within the past two years. The most recent injections gave no relief whatsoever.

I have seen Dr. Matthew Williiams of Lafayette LA. I did research and he did a total shoulder fellowship at UT Health Sciences Center, and a second 'reverse total shoulder' fellowship in France. He specializes in shoulder replacement surgery, and recently completed the first robotic shoulder replacement in Louisiana. Dr. Williams explained that my 'bone on bone' was 'end-stage' osteoarthritis due to an injury years ago, or just bad luck and degenerative dissolution of the cartilage. I am looking at having the surgery sometime in January or early February, as some previously scheduled travels/obligations cannot be postponed or delayed.

I plan to continue my exercise regimen up until the time of surgery, especially working on shoulder support muscles and upper back/arm muscles.

Specifically, are there any members of these subreddits that are active in either freshwater or saltwater fly fishing?

Any and all information is appreciated.

Good afternoon Dirty Coast Crew!

Hope everyones having an alright day. I apologize for missing last week’s game plan. I was contemplating not doing one this week either. Ive been going through some personal struggles in my life right now making it extremely difficult to keep up with and have the enthusiasm that I had when I initially started this sub. (sorry for venting)

With all that said, I decided the best way to try and get out of this funk is to do what I love, and that’s talking fishing.

For this weekend’s game plan, its looking really good and the winds look calm in the mornings. The fishing will definitely be better Sunday than Saturday though. Reason being is that the tide change is happening at different times and make a quite of a difference for each day. And Monday-Wednesday will look even better! But I might make something separate for that.

Saturday

The tide is rising til about 9am, at 9am it becomes slack tide for at least another 30 minutes to an hour before it starts going back out. Now fishing this a certain way, and timing it correctly, is crucial for Saturday. You can have a late start Saturday, (I wouldn’t), and fish the outgoing tide only, or wake up at 3am to try and fish the rising tide as much as possible. The start of the falling tide isn’t too great to be fishing anyways, plus it’ll be super hot by then possibly turning the bite off. Id focus on the early morning bite. Get there by 4:30-5am the latest and be in the water by 5:30.  

For this incoming tide id target grassy shorelines and coves. Casting right at the shoreline where the baitfish will be pushed in to. Reds will be there as well. Look for shells on the bottom, shores forming points. Anything with a uniqueness to it with structure. If you’re fishing a marsh system, then you’d want to be in the back of that marsh by 7am. And making your way back at 9 while slack tide is going on. Fish the shoreline and mouths of marshes after 9am. Use binoculars to watch certain shores! This is a tactic that I use often! I keep me some cheap binos that I can toss around. I look for birds, bait jumping in the water, blow ups, or tails. Many times, ive seen reds tailing using these. Look for egret birds, if 2 are close to each other, that means there is an abundance of bait in that water. These birds do not like each other, so they tolerate each other whenever they have to. If you see this, I’d fish that shore!

Sunday

The tide will have a long gradual rise making the bite last longer. The tide will go slack at around noon. Id fish this the exact same way as I explained for Saturday but you have a longer period to fish the shoreline or back marshes.

With the bait around the bay lately, id use paddletails to match the mullet around. Shrimp is still good as live bait but is not what the game fish are chasing right now. Don’t get me wrong, they’ll definitely bite shrimp but they want something they can chase and that provides a big meal for them. 5-6in paddletail with a 1/8oz in shallows and 1/4oz in 4ft or more. Croaker are still killer! Took my niece out last Friday and put her on her first trouts on croaker and she fell in love with fishing!

 

Lastly,

Id like to say thank you to everyone who follows. As always, if theres anything im missing or anything youd like for me to include in my plans, please let me know.

Hope everyone’s had a great Thursday so far and getting lines ready, wet or planning to!

Heading to the keys soon and will be setting aside some time to go wade-flyfish for bonefish. Have tried before around Bahia Honda and Long Key with no luck. Thinking about going more to lower keys (summerland, knockemdown) look very wadeable but are they muddy? Anyone have experience or any spots they’ve caught them at? Would be forever grateful