Family Day aboard Reel Therapy
Father fighting a Gator Blue with his son Family trips are in a class by themselves. Normally, aboard reel therapy, the age cutoff is 12 yrs old, but since this was a special occasion for these folks, I made an exception. We started out with some heavy North East winds so we were unable to venture out to the bay and open waters, so we stuck to the river. Getting away from the big blues is key now to finding the striper fishing around here. Right now, the adult stripers are spawning but there are plenty of bass from 22-26 inches to be caught. They are all pretty chunky and strong fighters. Great fly rod fish, can't go too light as there are 30 pounders mixed in with the smalls. lately, depending on the flies and lines we are chucking, we are using 9-12 weight rods. These fish can easily bight a schoolie bass in half For the blues, we use a piece of 50lb test for the tippet and check frequently for abrasion and retie often. We have a separate box of "specia