Had a fun day yesterday with my friend Link. Lot's of hookups and consistent action although there were no huge pods of fish. I would guess that we connected with close to 60 shad. I even hooked a monster fish that I think was a 10+lb steelhead that took me 100yds into the backing. Had a great fight, then the fish popped the 8lb tippet!
Did you see the fish? My bet is a striper, ive hooked a few on the lower Y while shad fishing or trout fishing this time of the year before
iamamultitasker wrote:
Had a fun day yesterday with my friend Link. Lot's of hookups and consistent action although there were no huge pods of fish. I would guess that we connected with close to 60 shad. I even hooked a monster fish that I think was a 10+lb steelhead that took me 100yds into the backing. Had a great fight, then the fish popped the 8lb tippet!
Just saw the fish roll about 50 yrds down river. It definitely was long and meaty, but it seemed a lot faster than a striper as the line was peeling off my reel. Still, it could have been although the biggest striper I've ever caught on a shad fly was 15" long. IMO, this mystery fish was well over 30".
After looking at the 8lb tippet I believe the leader was weakened by catching a lot of shad and it parted close to the knot. The moral is: don't be careless.
