Inshore grand slam this morning

MISSED A FLYROD GRAND SLAM THIS AFTERNOON BY ONE FLUKE

After this mornings grand slam with my charter on spinning gear and with the fog lasting all day I had the need to get out. Called Peter Cole up and told him with the fog I think we could get some fish.

Tide was better than half out. Left the dock at 3:30 p.m. Still pretty foggy but not too bad. Went to spot that drains flats into the intercoastal waterway. Stopped the boat in about 5 foot of nice clean green water and Peter said he saw the flash of a fish.

First cast with a Chart/yellow grizzly feather deceiver I hook up.

Could see the bass come up and strike in the clean water on almost every fish. Fish were aggressive and we had many hits. My fly was not much different than Petes but I was getting more hook ups. In an hour and a half we ended up with 9 bass and three blues and Peter lost one fly to a blue. He did get the nicest fish.

As the tide was dying and the water was getting real shallow we decided to head out the inlet. Found nothing at the rocks so we thought we would try for some weakies where I caught this morning.

First couple of casts we were into weakies and sea herring. Peter was using a yellow/white jiggie and I was using a silver.green super small fly. It was hits on almost every cast. Weakies were all smaller than we caught this morning but most were keeper size. We released them all. Pete got the smallest weakie of the day. Had to get a picture of the big weakie killer so we could put it next to the big one he got two weeks ago.

It was one heck of an afternoon. We got 15 or more weakies a mess of sea herring and a few more blues. We had close to 40 fish in total in less than 4 hours fishing. I put a clouser on trying for a fluke with no luck. It was some of the hottest fly fishing we ever had and we enjoyed every minute of the afternoon.

Here is a shot of a weakie with 1 1/2 long fly with a big clip attached. So much for fish seeing it and being scared away.