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Jan.
16, 2012
- It has been another subpar winter of fishing at the Chesapeake
Bay Bridge Tunnel. The thousands of stripers that once
lined the structure of the bridge in years past are limited to a
few sporadic schools these days. I can't wait for winter
to be over so that we can enjoy the shallow water fishery on the
Middle Peninsula once again! In the meantime, I'm whipping
up some flies. I've been playing with weighted tube flies
which allow you to fine tune a fly's weight without the use of
dumbell eyes or cones. Rigging the tubes with Gamakatsu
finesse wide gap hooks is a great way to make the flies weedless.
Another weight option that I've been using is soft tungsten
strands. The tungsten is heavier and easy to work with
compared to lead wire. The soft tungsten strands come in three different diameters which
allows you to vary the amount of weight. I simply tie them
to the hook shank and tie the fly over the weight.
       
       
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