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Jul 15 2008

Cory Routh Kayak Fishing Book to be Released in August - Podcast with Cory Routh

Lateral Line Ambassador Cory Routh has been working hard over the last year to produce his first book titled “Kayak Fishing” that will be released in August.

Kayak Fishing by Cory Routh

Readers will get a quick, clear understanding of the essential information needed to get started in the growing sport of kayak fishing. Cory Routh covers everything needed to know for safe, fun and successful kayak fishing, including:

  • Choosing the right kayak for fishing
  • Selecting PFDs and paddles
  • Kayak safety and self-rescues
  • Basic and advanced kayak rigging
  • Transporting your kayak
  • Choosing the right fishing gear
  • Stealth and presentation
  • Fighting and landing fish
  • Freshwater fishing
  • Saltwater fishing
  • Fly-fishing techniques
  • Kayak fishing instructors and guide listing

PODCAST
Listen to a Podcast with Cory from the Virginia Fly Fishing Festival where I talk to him about his new book, his guide service and kayak fishing in and around his home waters of Virginia Beach.

 
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Jul 12 2008

Towing your Boat in North Carolina - You better read this

Published by Brandon under Fishing News, Fishing Journal

Boat TowingI read the below from an angler on TidalFish.com alerting everyone to the new regulations that are being enforced for boats being towed over 8 1/2 feet in width in North Carolina.  No towing on holidays or at night? Seems crazy to me. Link below to take action.

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For those of you that travel NC roads and are not familiar with this, let me bring you up to speed.

There are laws currently in NC that up until recently were not enforced by the NCSHP for over width trailering. Current law states that anything over 8′6″ (which includes guides on a trailer) would require an over width permit and can not be towed at night, during the weekend or on holidays. Boats as small as 21′ in length are affected. In the fall of 2007, those towing in NC started receiving citations ranging from $500 to $2500.

There was a public forum held in Wilmington, NC by the NCSHP. The NCSHP told the group, and I quote, “if you do not like the law, contact your legislators and change the law, we do not make the law, we only enforce the law.”

Rep Arthur Williams of Pitt County stepped up and introduced H2167 which would allow boats up to 120″ to tow 24/7 without a permit with a provision that amber lights be added to the widest portion to increase visibility at night. Trailers/boats over 120″ would still be allowed to tow every day of the week but not after sunset.

This bill passed with overwhelming support in the House and it has overwhelming support in the Senate. The bill will be going for its second reading on Monday, July 14. However, the Governor has sent word that he will veto this bill based on unfounded safety concerns expressed by higher ranking of the NCSHP unless we give up night time towing (30 minutes before sunrise and after sunset) and accept a ZERO TOLERANCE stipulation.

Boating accidents make up less than a half of 1% of accidents on NC highways. Only 7 accidents annually involve a boat greater than 102”. Yes, 7 boats annually. Furthermore, more accidents involving police, EMS and fire trucks combined occur in ONE year than the number of boat accidents in THREE years. (data provided by DMV Crash Facts)

Another interesting fact, the NCSHP can not provide evidence to show what type of trailer was reported in the accident, if the accident included one or more vehicles or who was at fault.

Opposition to this bill by the higher ranking of the NCSHP and the Governor tends to disregard the actual historical risk and the EXTREMELY low frequency and low severity category of the accident type. They are attempting to make law based on something other than FACT.

As you can see, we all have to get involved to protect access to NC roads for residents and tourist alike. This is a grassroots effort to show the Governor our displeasure for his ill-informed decision to veto the bill on unfounded safety issues provided by the higher ranking of the NCSHP.

Husbands, wives, children, friends, I encourage ALL to not only fill out this letter to the Governor but to make it a point to call the Governor’s office on Monday and respectfully speak out against the veto of H2167. Click on link below to sign letter to the Governor.

Boat Towing Issues In North Carolina

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Jul 11 2008

North Carolina Saltwater Fishing Reports- Updated July 11 2008

North Carolina Saltwater Fishing Reports
Bill from Oregon Inlet Fishing Center reported:
“July 10, 2008 Fishing Report

Some nice big bigeye tunas showed up in the catches today. They ranged in weight from 97 pounds to 187 pounds. More yellowfin catches, one nice one had 10 all running from 40 to 50 pounds a peice. Best dolphin catch recorded was 8 they also had a 177 pound bigeye and 2 yellowfins. Inshore boats caught tailor bluefish trolling in the morning, trigger fish and sea bass bottom fishing in the afternoon. Open boats on all day trips caught cobias. A half day trip caught speckled trout amd flounders. Miss Oregon Inlet caught croakers morning and afternoon.

July 9, 2008 Fishing Report

Offshore dolphin and yellowfin tuna, scattered wahoo. One wahoo weighed 31 pounds. two sailfish and a blue marlin were caught and released. Weather a propblem. Thunder storms throughout the afternoon curtailed some fishing activities. Inshore boats caught tailor bluefish and spanish mackerel trolling. Bottom fishing landed good size triggerfish. An all day inshore trip combined both trolling and bottom fishing with good results on each. Open boats had good speckled trout fishing. An all day trip caught two cobias weighing 35 and 45 pounds. An AM trip caught and released 5 sharks. I missed getting pictures by not getting out there early enough.

July 8, 2008 Fishing Report

Good day’s fishing all around both offshore, inshore and open boat charters. Offshore there were a lot of dolphin caught, some wahoos, blackfin tunas and billfish. The dolphin had a good quantity of gaffer sized amongst the school sized fish. There was a 40 pounder and a 35 pounder. One boat had 55 another 25 dolphin. Billfish- there were 7 sailfish and several white marlins. Inshore good trolling for spanish mackerel and tailor bluefish. Open boats targeted different species. Speckled trout, black drum, flounders and several cobia were caught. Some spanish mackerel and tailor bluefish were caught by Continue Reading »

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Jul 10 2008

Henry’s Fork Idaho June 14-20 Fishing Report

Published by Dalton under Fishing Journal

This post is pretty late but I’ve been swamped the past couple weeks with moving up to MD and getting started working. Brandon and I went out to the world famous Henry’s Fork of the Snake River in Idaho to help out on a study with Marine Ventures and the Henry’s Fork Foundation. Check out Marine Ventures Blog and the Henry’s Fork Foundation Calder Project Page for more information on our study. We were there for the week, June 14-20, and fished most days on the Ranch section. For two days we headed over to Yellowstone to fish the Firehole River.

It was my first time ever fishing out west, I am a North Carolina native and I have never fly fished for trout out of the state. We arrive at the Fork in the afternoon of June 14th and get the RV set up and ready for opening day of the Harriman State Park (Ranch section of the river). We get set up and I decided to fish upstream of the Ranch (legal year round). I casted my San Juan worm into several riffles and in the first hour hooked up on a nice fish. With the strong current (apparently not strong by Western standards–but stronger than anything I’ve fished back home) my 4wt was doubled over and after 4 jumps with the fish 2ft+ out of the water I landed this 16″ rainbow.

When I got back to parking lot with stories of the fish, I was told that it was “illegally” hooked. I was exposed to my first glimpse of “Dry Fly Fishermen”. It was interesting to see people that will only fish with dry flies to a rising trout—even if that means not catching fish or even not fishing. From what we were told in the parking lot no other fish was caught this day. I fished a little more this day but didn’t hook any more fish, but managed to snap my 4wt rod mid cast at the middle ferrule (probably a symptom of fighting the fish). We had a truckload of rods and I grabbed a 5wt that was better suited for this river.

On opening day at the Ranch, we geared up and walked down the banks to find a spot to fish. The river was super crowded this day with anglers staking their spots on the bank to watch for rising fish. We sat down and talked to one group of anglers for over an hour and it was amazing to hear their stories, each one of these three guys had been fishing the Fork for over 40 years—each had witnessed the river in its heyday with monster trout rising to the plentiful huge Green Drakes on opening day. This year, due to a late winter, the Green Drakes were not ready to come off.

We were disappointed to not see a single fish in the water all day, we only heard of 2 fish caught by these Fork veterans (we were hard pressed to find any anglers who had fished the river less than 25 years). We only fished a little this day, and none of our crew hooked a fish.

The following day, Monday June 16, was the same story. Only a few fish caught, no flies coming off and no fish in our group. We decided to head down the road to the lower section of the Ranch—we got to mud up our Suburban on the dirt road but that was the most exciting park of the day. While fishing the river Brandon flew over us taking pictures for an angler count on the river.


Word around the campground was that due to the cold water temperatures, fishing would not pick up for a few days.

On Tuesday and Wednesday we headed to Yellowstone to fish the Firehole and check out the park. We stopped by Bud Lily’s fly shop in West Yellowstone, Montana to get the scoop on hot flies for the river. We were sent off with Caddis, Royal Wulff’s, PMDs and Soft Hackles. We fished for about 30 minutes in strong winds with no sign of fish, but to our surprise a nice Caddis hatch came off and the fishing was on fire. We fished that hatch and got 9 fish between four of us in about 2 hours time. Below is a picture of Joe with a nice brown trout.

The next day on the Firehole was decent, no hatches coming off but a few fish were still willing to take Caddis dries. I fished a prince Nymph and got a few fish. The Firehole was a nice break from the technical fishing of the Henry’s Fork, but the fish were all small (only up to 10-11”).

On Thursday we headed back to the Ranch, while walking down the bank we spotted a few risers and decided to stop. We found one of the best pieces of river in the Ranch this day, three perfectly placed rocks created a 50ft long column of eddies. Many bugs were in the air this day, but we saw none on the water. We saw Caddis, PMDs, Flying Ants, and loads of mosquitoes. While waiting to cast to a riser we saw a friend from the campground with a rod doubled over up stream. He fought the fish, and it ran right through our staked out hole, a run of over 50 yards; the guy caught the fish and it measured 20” (check out the video of his catch here: Marine Ventures Foundation » Opening Day on the Ranch, 2008). We saw that he was using a Black Flying Ant, and I immediately tied one on. The fish in our hole settled down after about 15 minutes and started to rise again, I crept into the water and cast right where I wanted the fly, nothing. On my third cast to this spot this 12” rainbow took the fly.

Brandon then waded out and as soon as he got in the water the wind picked up—no more hatch or rising fish. We headed back in to get some lunch and work on the project some more.

The next day we trekked back to our same hole and saw tons of rising fish again. I cast out my PMD fly several times and hooked up on a nice fish, right at my feet this fish decided to come off the barbless hook, this fish was probably right at 14”. I missed my chance on that fish and sent Brandon in the water to catch him with Flying Ant tied on he hooked this fish in two casts.

I ended up landing two more fish in this spot, one around 10” and the other 12”.

The final day of the trip we headed back to the same spot but mostly to put the rest of the crew on fish. Slack lines and clumsy casts kept the fish from being landed this day, several fish were missed and one big one was broken off. It was time to head back east to give it a go in the saltwater…

The Henry’s Fork trip was the greatest fishing trip I’ve ever been on for sure. I had a great time and a caught a few fish. I would have loved to fish the river in its prime, when fish under 20” didn’t count, and the habitat was perfect for the big bugs that bring the big fish to the top. This was great technical river to fish if you ever get the chance. We weren’t able to find tons of fish on the Ranch section of the river but check out this video we made of the upper section, which has apparently great habitat for the fish here: Marine Ventures Foundation » Under the bridge.

A few more pictures from our trip:

Trout Hunter

Last Chance, ID

Scanning the River after Breakfast

Campground/parking lot where we stayed (we were the only guys there who hadn’t fished the fork for 25 years):

Trying to spot fish off the canyon on the Fork

Bison in the middle of the road in Yellowstone

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Jul 07 2008

Northern Patagonia Fishing Club - Fly Fishing for Trout March 3, 2008

Ryan Davey Big Rainbow Trout
Northern Patagonia Fishing - Aoniken Spring Creek Hike-in Adventure

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Jul 07 2008

North Patagonia Fishing Club - Fly Fishing for Trout March 2, 2008

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Pulmari River Fishing Report - Rainbow and Brown Trout Fishing

Weather: Moring was a bit chilly in the low 50’s and later warmed up during the day to get into the middle 70’s
Water Conditions: The Pulmari River as a bit low, but has been fishing OK
Fly Fishing Equipment: 5 and 6wts with floating lines and dry flies

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Jul 07 2008

Northern Patagonia Fishing Club - Fly Fishing for Trout March 1, 2008

Big Patagonia Brown Trout
Northern Patagonia - Alumine River Fishing Report - Rainbow and Brown Trout Fishing

Morning Session
Weather: Morning was a bit chilly in the low 50’s and later warmed up during the day to get into the middle 70’s
Water Conditions: The Alumine River as a bit low, but has been fishing OK
Fly Fishing Equipment: 5 and 6wts with 250 and 350 sinking lines drifting nymphs.

Report
I fished with Mapu alone, Tom and Ryan fished with Javier. Mapu is a Park and Fisheries Ranger. His family owns a camp ground which we floated by and his Mom came out and took some pics. Fishing was a little crazy in that we drift double nymph rigs, but actually stripped them in. I caught a fish almost immediately as we started our drift fomr the put in. It was pretty consistent hooking and a good amount of catching the entire day. Mostly rainbows, but I managed two nice browns. First one was very large, but I was holding the fish just above the water so I did not keep him out of the water long and he slipped out and he went right back to his home waters before Mapu could get the shot.

We stopped for lunch around 2pm where Slyvia (the outfits cook) had set up a great little camp with everything including a tent to keep the bees out. Interesting things on the bees (yellow jackets) in Argentina. They are not native and were introduced to eat the horse flies. The problem is that someone did not seem to do their research because the two do not seem to come out during the same season. As soon as the late summer comes the horse flies disappaear and the bees appear, which means the bees never have a chance to even eat the horse flies. And when the food comes out, man so do the bees. As long as you do not swat and make them mad you are good and will not get stung, start swinging and your about garentees to find yourself with a nice welt. After lunch we took about an hour and a half siesta, then loaded into the boats and contiuned on down the Alumine. About fifteen minutes into the float I hooked into another nice brown, this time I held on to the fish and Mapu was able to take a few shots. The rest of the day was smaller sized rainbows landed with a beautiful backdrop of the Alumine River basin. We fished up the drift around 8pm,jumped in the trucks and headed back to the Patagonia Fishing Club’s Lodge. On the ride home we talked about the day and Tom and Ryan we not able to land any larger fish, but caught plenty on the numbers side.

We were greeted by Guy who had apetizers ready and a bottle of Argentine wine already opened. We showered, grab some apetizers, talked about fishing and then sat down to dinner around 9:30pm. For dinner we had Argentine lasanga followed with flan for desert. We wrapped up dinner around 10:45pm and decided to get an internet connection which required us to pack into guy’s truck and head into downtown Alumine to the internet cafe. We each logged on to the painfully slow connection, checked what email we could and closed the place down at midnight. For the three of us for an hour it was 6 pesos or $3US. By 12:20am were were back at the lodge and we were beat, so we hit the sack.

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Jul 07 2008

Argentina Fly Fishing Adventure Travel February 29, 2008

Patagonia Travel
Northeast Argentina - We Leave Pira Lodg/ Iberia Marsh and head to The Patagonia Fishing Club in Northern Patagonia located in the small down of Alumine

Morning Session
Weather: Cloudy, warm in the 70’s
Water Conditions: N/A
Fly Fishing Equipment: Packed for the next stop

Report

Today was a big travel day taking us from the north east side of Argentina to the Northern Patagonia region. Yesterday evening just after we arrived at the dock a good sized storm rolled in dumping a good amount of rain resulting in what was he final blow to our chances of having the charter plane land on Pira Lodge’s private air strip. While the rain was good for the marsh helping the water quality and possibly the water level, it was not good for our backs as it meant we had to take over a 2 hour truck ride, half of which was on dirt roads, to Goya where we would meet the plane at Goya’s small airport. We left Pira at 7am, loaded up the plane and headed to Buenos Aires. Two hours and a few minutes later (the flight back was a little shorter because hte charter plane was a different model (a Mitschabie that could do 300knots) we arrived at the private flight terminal where we were met by ____________from Prana Tourismo. We loaded up the small bus which took us to the domistic terminal across the airport which took about ten minutes. From there we loaded up and took a two hour flight to Baraloche. At Baraloche airport we were met by Guy who is the Assistant Manager at the Patagonia Fishing Club. We loaded up his Toyota Hilux and set out for the four and a half hour drive north to the lodge. We took a less direct route to the lodge, but the route has more paved then dirt roads which allows for a better ride and a bit shorter, though the distance is longer. Guy entertained us with Argentina history and a commentary on Argentina modern politics. It was quite a ride. We arrived in Alumine around 8:45pm and traveled five minutes out of down to the lodge which is located on an enstancia which is about 400 hectors or 800 acres. Small by Argentina standards, but a very nice place. The Patagonia Fishing lodge is as authentic as it gets.

We unpacked some of our stuff and apitizers was served at the “bar” at 9:30pm, followed by dinner at 10:00pm. Dinner was a beef dish with pan friend potatos with a while sauce. Guy continued his entertainment talking to us about Argentine politics, about some of his adventures with clients and followed up with information about how our stay would unfold. Tomorrow we would be floating the Alumnie in rafts with fishing guides Mapu and Javier. Wake up call is 7:30am, “early” for Argentine standards, breakfast at 8am and the guides would arrive around 8:30am.

We finally got to bed around 1:30am.

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