Been having a chance to get OTW lately, having a blast with little panfish and LMB at the Port of Sac. and enjoying the cooler Fall weather.

Throwing the fly rod exclusively and catching a bunch of small fish during my typical midday midweek 3 hour sessions.

Only one fish of moderate size has been measured so far - a LMB that hit a white popper at sundown. It was a nice fight on the flexy 4 weight meant for tiny trout.

I'm posting it here as I can't get AOTY to register it.

BTW- lots of salmon are rolling now at the Port - in the past trolling has worked for these dark fish. I've seen a bunch of yakkers jigging the locks, but so far have not seen much success.

Good luck and stay safe OTW,
novofish

Just got back from a 5 day Cruise in the Bahamas.

I brought my travel fly rod and a couple of flies, a super small kit: one reel with floating line, and a borrowed go-pro camera, in hopes of getting some time to fish.

Well, I got 3 hours of casting time while we were moored off a small Cay. I left the family at the tourist beach and hiked to the other side of the small island.

Soon, I found a rocky shoreline mostly devoid of cruise ship passengers.

Almost as soon as I started setting up my rod I saw a huge Bonefish, probably 7lbs+
cruising the flats, not 30 feet from where I stood in 2' of clear 70 degree water!

I was pumped to see that trophy and hurried to get set-up.

Finally, I took my first cast, and instantly my fly was followed by medium sized Bones - 2lb'ers or so. Wow, nice start I thought. I casted for the next hour watching countless fish, mostly Needlefish - from 20 - 30", and Bonefish - big and small, grab, swarm and
follow my fly. Also, too many other fish I could not identify were checking out my fly.

The water was clear and I felt as though I was standing in an aquarium - really cool!

Well, after a couple of LDR's on line ripping Bonefish I finally hooked up on a snaky Needlefish which darted about in front of me before I landed the toothy fish. These fish seemed to be the fastest fish on the reef.

A few casts later I thought I had finally hooked into a Bonefish, but as the brute bulldogged me and stayed deep I wondered if I was on a Jack. Moments after thinking this, my assumptions were confirmed as my line went limp and a nice jack swam toward me chasing the fly it had just come off. Total rush.

I worked the area for another few casts, and got a line ripping run of about 50yds from a huge needlefish, before it's teeth cut my 12lb flouro leader - WOW!

By that time I figured the girls were going to start wondering where I was, seeing as I missed the lunch spread that the ship had planned. So I hiked back and grabbed one of the last sandwiches, got on a lounge chair, and recounted 3 hrs of fantastic fly fishing while I watched the girls play in the blue Caribbean water.

Some vid of the action:

Hey Matt, hope you are having a great B-day buddy!
 

Hit my favorite ditch today for a 3 hr. troll sesh.

Another warm and sunny day with a bit of a breeze were the conditions.

Pulled or casted a JSR the whole time - in the 4 times I've trolled in the past two weeks, it's the only lure that has caught fish. The troll bite was on today, for shakers. I hooked 5 fish, smallest was 13" largest 17". All were hard fighting fish, lost one at the boat and LDR'd one.

Thinking about hitting it again tomorrow - 9:30 - 12:30 - Barge Canal Access

Company always welcome!

Seems like lately I've only had a couple of hours to get on the water. Today I took advantage of another 3hr window and hit the Sac. Port. The Port is one of the closest waters to me at 30 mins. away. Given my short time allotted and needing a workout I decided to just troll non-stop to the fertilizer docks, about an hour away (at a moderate trolling speed) then turn back to make my schedule work.

I tied on a jerk-bait and launched from the Barge Canal access at near low tide. It was another stellar mid-morning on the water today and a t-shirt and shorts were all that was needed. Only stopped a couple of times to clean the plant material off the hooks. Saw 1 PB and 1 yak OTW besides myself, so a typical weekday crowd.

Hit the fertilizer dock right at 1 hour of paddling and turned around right away. It was now slack tide and the paddle back would be slow and steady just as I had done on the way out. About halfway back my jointed shad rap got hammered by a 15" schoolie striper. I am always amazed at the fight in those small fish. I think pound for pound they are the hardest fighting fish in the delta.

After CPR'ing that little scrapper I headed in - satisfied with another installment of a mid-week paddle workout.

wow, what a move.
Good for Kap they are saying.
So I guess Kap is still the guy?

Milestone bro, congrats!

thx niners!