Well, I tied up a bunch of the BFW's famous Electric Dreads, I've used them before, but I never managed to catch much....thats because I was trying to work the fly.....but I've come to find that, this fly works for you. I had one hell of a day with the dread. First there was a school of black drum an acre and a half in size, literally hundreds upon hundreds working their way across the flat. We puled the stinkpot ahead of them and waited, I dropped a cast in front of the school, let the dread hit the bottom, as soon as the school went over the area, I made one small 3" strip and BAM!!!! I connected zzzzzzzzzzzzz pop! it broke me off!. Tied a new one on, by that time the drum disappeared into the boat channel. An hour or so later, in a different spot, I got of the stinkpot and waded toward some tails I seen poking out, I arrived and got situated to be able to get a cast in with the wind, placed a perfect cast in front of a red, he stopped, his tail popped out, he ate!, then my line starts moving toward me
, the fish was coming straight at me I couldnt get tension back to set the hook before it spit. I didnt even have to work this fly, it worked for me! I have never thrown anything but baitfish patterns up until now, but I've come to find that, this shrimp pattern fly is really the weapon I've been needing..........too bad my vacaton is now over and I go back to work tomorrow
Oh yeah, trout love it too....
(I dont handle trout like this usually, but when this guy came to the boatside it was all banged up and probably a-goners anyway, all thanks to what I believe was a bluefish
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