Crabs… I got crabs.

Yep Crabs… I got a lot of crabs and some shrimp too... Merkins, Mad Mikes Copperhead Crabs, rag body crabs, small grass shrimp, big brown ones, coppery ones, and some white ones, I am pretty sure I have tied up enough crab and shrimp patterns to get me through some quality fly fishing for reds in the next coming weeks. The water on my usual haunts has been in the 90’s. I have seen fish but they are not very interested in eating and I have only seen one tail this year and it was a sheepshead. After some research and talking to some of my buddies I think I may have a couple new flats to try out. I am going to be working the flats closer to the ocean over in the next few weeks on my new search for tails. Everything seems to a little late this year. The tailers people have reported didn’t really get going until about 3 weeks past the normal starting times and like I said I haven’t seen a red tail in the grass yet. I am still finding some quality redfish on drop offs in the rivers but grass bass have eluded me so far. My March Brown fly rods are aching for a good bend and my Okuma and Nautilus reels are begging to put the drag to the test. On the freshwater side of my fly rod the action has been non-stop. My pond has been on fire with the top water bite. Large and small Largemouth bass readily take my offerings of dragonfly patterns and sparsely tied Clousers while the bream and warmouth eagerly suck down any offering. I have been dabbling in the conventional side of things with plastic worms and frogs. The Z-Man frogs have been killin the Bass. Flat wearin them out. I figured I needed to learn how to use those things since we sell them at my shop and although fly fishing is my one true passion when the pescadorial efforts are in play, playing with the plastics has been fun. I am looking forward to find my beloved tailing redfish and being able to get my upstate brothers on them soon.