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04-19-2006, 01:27 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Greenhill Rhode Island
Posts: 102
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Something I've got to try,,,
Working 2nd shift and gettin out at 1:00 am,,,,,, I've got to try flyfishing at night in the pocket at _____________!
Anyone else flyfish in the wee hours of the morn?
Gotta be a "hoot" with a new moon and all's as black as my Lab. (LOL)  |
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04-19-2006, 06:10 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: North shore
Posts: 1,247
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Yep. Up here in Salem, we call it the "witching hour" :-)
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04-19-2006, 08:44 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Southeastern MA
Posts: 394
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Absolutely best time just protect your eyes from errant casts. One of my best fly caught stripers was taken around midnight way up in back in an estuary drifting a black fly that looked like a small eel on a fast sinking line dragged along the bottom. At first I thought I snagged the bottom that was until it started to move. Not my biggest striper ever but 19 lbs on an orvis clearwater 8 wt in a ripping current it was a very memorable catch. I love drifting flies in the current at night.
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04-19-2006, 09:11 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Southern R.I.
Posts: 173
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After May 99% of my fishing is in the dark. No better time to be out there. You have it pretty good working second shift, I'd be out every night after work, and still be able to sleep. Can't tell you how many days I am like a zombie at work after fishing all night.
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04-19-2006, 12:32 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Greenhill Rhode Island
Posts: 102
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Best part,,,, 4 day workweek,,,, Fridays off! fish all morning til daylight, sleep all day.
Throwing plugs is one thing in the dark,,,, flyfishing could be a real trip! Literally!  Great time to watch for UFOs when the bite is down.  |
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04-20-2006, 12:19 PM
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Retired Surfer
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Sunset Grill
Posts: 9,511
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Advice
As in the aforementioned post......duck your head on the forecast you'll remain healthier.  |
Swimmer a.k.a. YO YO MA
Serial Mailbox Killer/Seal Fisherman
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04-21-2006, 06:35 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: New Haven County, CT
Posts: 3,885
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After the spring schoolie-fest it's all deep-night and predawn.
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04-21-2006, 11:17 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 399
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I use squash clear safety glasses at night...find them in the tennis dept.
$ 2-3 bucks ......  eyeball priceless.
not worrying about casting eyeball and having an instant hit, equally priceless LOL |
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04-22-2006, 04:55 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Greenhill Rhode Island
Posts: 102
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Pops-
Wonder if my yellow tinted driving glasses (M/C) would work???
Hmmm, I'll have to try them.
Anyways, while I CAN see your point,,, good idea. Scoff some from work when I leave at night.  |
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04-23-2006, 05:23 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: New Haven County, CT
Posts: 3,885
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They have cheap reading glasses at your neighborhood drug store. Cost a couple of bucks. Great investment, your vision is priceless. I met a guy flyfishing in Milford CT flyfishing one night, who had a patch over one eye. You can guess what happened. Pinching down hook barbs doesn't only make it easier to release fish, it makes it easier to release fishermen.  |
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