Well we have finally hit 700,000 "new viewers" on this blog. You can set up Google Analytics several ways, the way I have it set it to record every new, I guess unique, IP address when they hit on the blog. I don't have any access but it's driven by "new" users. Otherwise my mom could check in 70 times in one day and that would be part of the big number. Started it in May 2009, still going, some slowdowns during the school years, hope to hit 1,000,000 while I am alive, if not Leif will be taking it over and keeping it going, although, he doesn't know it but there will be no more pictures of the Ugly Ass Fly. Just kidding.
I've been fishing, had the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat several times. The above image tells the story, but those kind of misses keep you coming back. I have come realize, that there certain spots were it could a fly or spin anglers day, and that can alternate with bait and tides and all that good stuff. Then there are places like, the Cape Cod Canal, the Point Pleasant Canal, the Shrewsbury River in the part where it's like a funnel, and the Delaware River, where those spots are just not fly rod friendly, and in fact near impossible to consistently catch fish.
There're not excuses, but when is last time you heard of a group of fly guys saying, "Let's go to the Canal?", to fish the main channel. Think backcast, ripping ripping tides, and where the bait and fish are. But every now and then we as fly fishers defy what is normal. We catch fish on dead low in the middle of the day with high bright sun, we catch that one big fish when only schoolies have been around, and then there's those nights when it all comes together, with a little luck, and it just blows your mind. More to follow.