JerryInLodi
09-11-2007, 06:40 AM
Sturmer came down from Granite Bay to help me harass delta LMB. Sturmer always brings a bag of flies with him as well as lots of food goodies.
The all too familiar "Delta Breeze" was blowing and limited the water we could fish. We started off on the main river, tossing poppers but after one grab in twenty minutes went subsurface throwing clousers, Puglisi style bluegill flies and anything else that sank. We caught a combination of small LMB and small stripers, the dinks I mentioned in an earlier post mixed with a few larger fish.
We looked for bigger fish at Holland Cut and again threw poppers to no avail. Sturmer started fishing subsurface again and would stick a couple of fish on a fly, I'd ask what he caught them on, switch and a few minutes later he'd stick a few more fish, this time on a new fly and I'd change again. Now Sturmer brings a fairly large bag of flies and this went on all day. I went through tippet material like miners use detonation cord with dynamite.
After a few miles we ran out of water and decided to cross the San Joaquin and try the east side. Every time we stopped at a new location we started with poppers only to end up subsurface after minutes without strikes. Sturmer began the quick change again, catching a few fish on each fly and I followed suit.
Finally, about six thirty, exhausted from all the knot tying and tippet trimming, I went back to a popper and started getting strikes. This time Sturmer did the swapping and we cast poppers till dark thirty.
We ended the day with a lot of wet flies, lots of little fish stuck and myself, tired from keeping up with a fly fishing teenager!
Here's Sturmer with the biggest fish of the day.
http://www.deltastripers.com/images/sturmero7.jpg
The all too familiar "Delta Breeze" was blowing and limited the water we could fish. We started off on the main river, tossing poppers but after one grab in twenty minutes went subsurface throwing clousers, Puglisi style bluegill flies and anything else that sank. We caught a combination of small LMB and small stripers, the dinks I mentioned in an earlier post mixed with a few larger fish.
We looked for bigger fish at Holland Cut and again threw poppers to no avail. Sturmer started fishing subsurface again and would stick a couple of fish on a fly, I'd ask what he caught them on, switch and a few minutes later he'd stick a few more fish, this time on a new fly and I'd change again. Now Sturmer brings a fairly large bag of flies and this went on all day. I went through tippet material like miners use detonation cord with dynamite.
After a few miles we ran out of water and decided to cross the San Joaquin and try the east side. Every time we stopped at a new location we started with poppers only to end up subsurface after minutes without strikes. Sturmer began the quick change again, catching a few fish on each fly and I followed suit.
Finally, about six thirty, exhausted from all the knot tying and tippet trimming, I went back to a popper and started getting strikes. This time Sturmer did the swapping and we cast poppers till dark thirty.
We ended the day with a lot of wet flies, lots of little fish stuck and myself, tired from keeping up with a fly fishing teenager!
Here's Sturmer with the biggest fish of the day.
http://www.deltastripers.com/images/sturmero7.jpg