Here’s some pictures from Doug and I’s day on the water yesterday. We launched out of Galveston in Doug’s Maverick to ice cream conditions and fished several nearshore rigs. The water looked beautiful. We were in search of tackle and rigging testers and we found a few.
No sightings of the Silver King but we did find Spanish Mackeral, Bluefish, Mahi Mahi, and Cobia. Smaks were everywhere; every stop we caught them. Nearly every rig we fished spotted pods of Ling as soon as we arrived. Out of curiousity the Ling would come up to the boat to see what was making all the commotion on the surface, which gave us several opportunties to sight fish with the fly rod.
I hooked one on a popper but was broken off at the leader almost immediately. Doug hooked two: one broke off and one pulled loose. We also had several Ling follow but we failed to get them to commit to the fly. Sight fishing to big fish with the fly rod is on a whole other level. Talk about an adrenaline rush! Can’t wait to go back for more.
