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    Probably the first Striper I evr caught. It was a keeper. My friend, whose boat I was on, thought I was horsing around pretending to have on a big fish. My 8wt was near its maximum curve. The fish was a fat 32"+. I gave it a pat on the back and sent it on its way.

    Another memorable fish was an 18" brookie caught 35 years ago. My best fish in my first year of fly fishing. That tasted good!

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    I just really started salty ff this year and my first fish was a blue that pulled my kayak out into Narraganset bay, fun but nerve racking

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    It was about a 4 pound snook, not large for a snook, on a 6wt rod. It wasn't the size of the fish that did it, but how it happened.

    I had been casting from a high perch to an area about twenty feet away. As I stripped back my red rabbit zonker skimmed what I thought was a bunch of rocks. At the very moment that my eyes figured out one of the rocks was a snook the fish shot out and snatched my fly.

    Never have I had such a clear view of the whole proccess. I could not have asked for anything better.

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    AScott:

    What a coincidence. I have been working on a fly farm and tying 300 pigs a week. Nyuk nyuk.

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    eponymous .. Too too funny LMAO

    Nyuk nyuk .
    For God's sake, Don't Quote me! I'm Probably making this crap up!

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    A couple of springs ago I was fishing the surf on the back side of Cape Cod.
    The sun was just right so that you could see the stripers surfing in the crest of the wave.
    I was using a flatwing on the point, a blonde on the dropper.
    The fish weren't that big,22-24", but sight casting to, and catching two at a time was a gas.

    I had to land the fish ASAP too or risk having a big gray seal steal the pair.

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    Most likely mine would be my first Tarpon. Nothing of any size, a mere baby at just ten lbs or so but the first. To make it better it was on my first cast to a Tarpon, instant strike, good hookset and landed him. Batting 100% on Tarpon but suffice it to say that average didn't last at all.

    The place, out near Mosquito Lagoon, a nice day and a place that an internet acquaintence, Tammy, told me about. Even had her friend meet me an take me directly to the place. Tam, can now be found out on the Dan Blanton board at times and is now likely giving those Sacrameto Delta fish the fits.

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    Yes Chuck,
    That (the striper thing) and coaching some West Coast Lady pirates to the virtues of albie pursuit.
    Some of the girls.

    And "on the way to the grounds" activities..... [url=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v315/leesoares/CIMG1080.jpg:ec9b1]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v315/leesoares/CIMG1080.jpg[/url:ec9b1] [url=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v315/leesoares/CIMG1081.jpg:ec9b1]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v315/leesoares/CIMG1081.jpg[/url:ec9b1]

    As to the origional question, one of our most remembered is a Ballyhoo we pestered with a #10 shad fly. The danged thing kept knocking the BUG out of the water with it's lower bill, I guess. Took many tries to get him eyeball to eyeball for a very short, close inspection.
    .....lee s.

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