Jake Jordan's Fishing Adventures

March, 30 2008:

This Morning Tommy Bennett, Chuck Laughridge, and I met at the boat ramp at 7:00 AM to head out on Chuck's boat into the Roanoke where we would fly fish for Hickory Shad. After launching, Chuck maneuvered his boat to a great spot and we set two anchors so each angler had a good technical cast to the spot where we thought the Shad would be schooled up.

    Chuck and Tommy took the first shift while I finished my coffee and unhooked fish for the other two anglers. While I tried to drink my coffee, I took a look at my watch it was 7:10 AM, I began counting the fish as I released them. 10 minutes later I had released 19 Shad, then at 7:31 AM the count was 43 fish which I had unhooked for my two fishing buddies.

    Next I stood up and Chuck took my place as the unhooker, while he was trying to eat is cheese biscuit. No luck for Chuck, twenty minutes later he had 3 bites from his biscuit and had released more than 20 double headers from Tommy and I. This is world class fishing even with the air temperature 35 degrees colder than yesterday, along with cold 20 knot wind and rain the fish kept biting.

    We caught Rockfish (Stripers), White Bass, and Catfish along with the Shad, then after releasing close to 200 fish in 3 hours, we decided to head back to the ramp, put the boat on the trailer, and go have a hot brunch before the 3 hour drive back home. We watched Kary Via, Tommy Via, and Buddy Rogers, catch multiple triple headers, they all had bent rods every time I looked at their boat. Everyone was laughing, and giggling as they caught more Shad. John Snipes and Albert caught lots of Shad along with quite a few Rockfish, John caught the largest Rockfish of the day. Several other CLFF members were on the river catching Shad, as far as I am concerned this was the best club outing that I have ever been on. Thanks to a great bunch of folks for introducing me to this wonderful fishery.

    I am off next Friday to the Galapagos, where Danny Cline and I will fly fish for Striped Marlin aboard the vessel "Blue" with Captain Braden Escobar. I plan to arrive back home on April 15th then head to the Keys with Mom on the 18th. We should arrive in Marathon on the 19th in the evening, and then begin my Tarpon season on April 21st. I still have April 24 and 25 available along with June 20-29 open for anyone who would like to catch a Tarpon on fly during the prime time season. Please contact me should you wish to fish on any of these dates?

Big Striped Galapagos Marlin, ready for Release!

Stay tuned for more fishing reports, I really love my job, I wish you were with me!

Regards:

Jake