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Striper Education: Chapter 1
by: Dr. Richard Carroll	On the 6-hour drive home to Syracuse, following our last week of Fly Fishing for Striped Bass, John and I (the Dino Boys) had a lively discussion about this Bass season.

Baitball
by: Kent Jackson	The first week of November crowd at Harker's Island is like Boston Harbor boat traffic on a beautiful late August Saturday -- to the tenth power. It's the weekend of the Great Pig Roast, started by Tom Earnhardt and Lefty Kreh and sponsored by Jones Brothers' Boats and the North Carolina Crystal Coast Chamber of Commerce.

Cape Outlook Primer
by: Capt. Brian Horsley	Any fly angler, who has experienced the knuckle busting, reel smoking, tippet shredding, run of a False Albacore, knows what a "Tunny Melt" is.

Behind The Scenes
by: Tammy DiGristine	We launched the canoe down an embankment and began the paddling down behind the narrow islands towards the flats there. Back there where nobody else really ventured, or even bothered to look, was a world like no other.

Meat Eaters
by: David E. Hallac	Southwestern Alaska's Piscivorous, Carnivorous, Egg Eating Rainbow Trout

Prowler Tuna Trip

by: Capt. Bob Paccia

Two of my friends and regular charter customers, Brian Porter and Bill Alarie, invited me to accompany them on their offshore tuna trip scheduled for this past Monday. They wanted to see if we could get a fly rod hook up with one of these pelagic speedsters. When they mentioned that it was on the 42 foot Prowler, with Captain Al Anderson out of Snug Harbor, I jumped at the opportunity. After all, Capt. Al wrote the book on offshore tuna fishing.

Apple Backs and Bones: Fishing for The Small Tuna That Visit New England
by: Capt. Joseph K. LeClair	It has occupied my mind off and on since the very last days of fishing in the fall of 1998. They seem to haunt my imagination and play on my weak strings of good sense until they arrive again and I can feel the line peeling off the reel into the open ocean.

Wading The Lower Cape
by: Jeff Smith	There’s something special about fishing on foot on Cape Cod. To me it has nostalgic value, not to mention a very effective, scenic, peaceful way to spend your time fishing for Cape Cod stripers.

Sight Fishing The Flats - Cape Cod: Chatham, MA
by: Randy Jones	Here on the Cape, we have miles and miles of light colored sand flats and crystal clear water that makes sight casting to 5-25 pound stripers the order of the day. This is probably the most exciting type of fly-fishing you will ever do.

Big Sharks on the Flyrod
by: Capt. RJ Silvester	While many fly fisherman venture onto Cape Cod seeking stripers, blues, bonito and albies, most fail to realize that the ultimate fight may be lying just offshore in the deep water.

Building a Braided Loop
by: Mike Figlioli	Mike Figlioli shows us the ropes in building braided loops

Tigers With BB Guns
by: Capt. Brian Horsley	February in Hatteras Village is home to the best Bluefin Tuna fishing anywhere in the world! Whatever the fishery, some crazy fly rodder will soon show up and throw flies at them. This is certainly the case with the bluefins; fly rodders have come from the Four Corners of the earth to try their hands and backs on these wonderful creatures.

Is the Future Bright For Striped Bass?: Are We Protecting These Fisheries Enough?
by: Dr. Kris Jop	The increasing numbers of stripers may lead us to believe that this fishery is strong, however, we should not forget that only 10 years ago, striped bass populations dwindled to record low levels due to poor management practices.

Call Them In Like Dogs
by: Lee Schechter	May and June are prime times for striper fishing on the Cape as the fish appear after their spring migration. At this time the fish will feed on any tide as long as there is moving water and time of day does not appear to be a key determinant.

Big Blues in Buzzards Bay in the Great Fishing Months of May and October
by: Capt. Joe LeClair	It seems that just about everywhere you go the locals say that the best time to fish is in the late spring and the early fall, and this is no exception here in the Southeast portion of Massachusetts along the waters of Buzzards Bay.

Fly-Casting: More Distance, Less Effort
by: George V. Roberts, Jr.	When fly-fishing for striped bass, a long cast allows you to cover a lot of water; you show your fly to as many fish as possible and your fly is fishing the majority of the time. (It may be anathema to discuss it in an article on fly-casting, but that’s why trolling flies is such an effective technique: The fly is fishing 100 percent of the time.)

Thinking Deep: Flyfishing the Graveyard of the Atlantic
by: Capt. Brian Horsley	When the topic of wrecks or offshore structure comes up most people think of bottom fishing for grouper, seabass and snapper or live baiting for king mackerel and amberjack. Well don’t be surprised to find a fly fisherman sinking flies over some of your favorite structures.

The Bronze Brutes of the Flats
by: Gary Henderson	Flyfishing for reds is probably my favorite way to fish for these bulldog fighters. Usually a seven to nine weight rod with a weight forward, floating line is more than enough, since open water is the ticket here. Along with this, two hundred yards of twenty-pound backing is standard equipment.

Gringos With Flyrods: Boca Paila, Mexico
by Mike Lettieri	If you've ever flipped through the travel section of any fly fishing catalog, you probably saw the section devoted to the Yucatan. You may have read about some of the lodges, looked at the price and said, "C'mon. It can't be THAT good, can it?" Well, it is. Everything you read, whatever you've heard, is probably true.

Step By Step Flytying:

"Buffy" The Striper Slayer
by: Jeff Smith	The "signature fly" of Flyfishsaltwaters.com

Back Beach Bomber
by: Jeff Smith	This fly uses the EZ body spreader and also has the added EZ body nose cone.

Capt. Ray's Angel Hair Fly
by: Capt. Ray Stachelek	These flies have attitude, and a bad one at that. These hooked morsels are always sticking their noses into some fish's business, teasing and touting them to strike back. They puff up like a bully and then run away. What gives them this attitude? It's a material developed by Angler's Choice called "Angel Hair."

RM Soft Short
by: Rich Murphy	The *RM Soft Short* is an impressionistic imitation of a molting juvenile American Lobster (Homarus Americanus). This crustacean is prolific in rocky coastal waters of the Northeast (particularly north of Cape Cod). They can grow to over thirty pounds.

Snake Fly
by: Jeff Smith	Lou Tabory must have put a lot of thought into this guy - the end result has striped bass written all over it!

The Rhody Flat Wing
by: Mike Figlioli	The Rhody Flat Wing is a pattern that was originated by the late Bill Peabody. Bill stated that he combined the flat wing hackle concept, popularized by Ken Abrames and the proven color scheme of the Ray’s Fly developed by Ray Bondorew.

The Gurgler
by: Jeff Smith	The Gurgler is a simple fly designed by Jack Gartside to imitate surface bait. The Gurgler is surprisingly easy to tie and is a great fly to stock your boxes with due to the relative ease in which it is tied and it’s effectiveness.

Tom's Tuna Tickler
by: Tom Thomas	Talk about ecstatic! Like two giddy school girls, we brought the 100 pounder into the flats boat to be measured, photographed and released. This was undoubtedly the high point of both Rich's and my fishing experiences. Rich coined my fly as *Tom's Tuna Tickler.*

Russell Chatham's - The Black Phantom
by Mike Figlioli	In 1966, Russell Chatham caught what was then the world record striped bass for 15 lb. test tippet. It was a 36 pound 6 ounce fish taken from under a bridge in San Francisco Bay at daybreak on an 8" black streamer.This and other exploits by Mr. Chatham would certainly qualify him as being one the pioneers of fly fishing for stripers.

The Defense Crab
by: Rich Murphy	The Defense Crab is intended to imitate a juvenile rock crab (carapace less than 1 inch long) agitated into a defensive posture against a foraging predator, claws up, tail down. In the Northeast, crabs this size are a staple for striped bass and other game species during the months of high summer when forage fish population movement is at a minimum.

Early Season Herring
by: Jeff Ganguly	While sparse patterns seem to rule the day, from classic patterns by Ray Bondorew and Ken Abrames to our very own Jeff Smith's Buffy progeny, sometimes it pays to have the "half a chicken" fly.

Mushmouth Fly
by: Mike Lettieri	The combination of the movement, color, and flash of the angel hair add to this pattern's effectiveness. The angel hair breathes a little and is more active than synthetics such as superhair.

Well Digger's Arse
by: Mike Figlioli	It seems apropos that a fly of this style and profile is featured given the huge quantities of large sand eels that have been present this year in many locales.

Rich Murphy's Pamet Special
by: Rich Murphy	I developed the prototype of this pattern while on an October vacation to Truro, Massachusetts in 1989. My intent then was to develop a large sand eel imitation I could use to capitalize on the striped bass blitzes that are routine during the fall months at the mouth of the Pamet River when, during the ebb of the tide, literally tons of sand eels are flushed into Massachusetts Bay.

Boomer !
by: Rich Murphy	The Boomer was developed to imitate the juveniles of a variety of species of baitfish within the genus Clupeidae, including Alewife and Blue Back herring which seasonally migrate north in spring and early summer then south in the fall along inshore waters in the Northeast.