Sandy Hook （Ⅱ）

  

I started fishing in Sandy Hook last Saturday morning around 7 o'clock when the sun was rising and an hour after high tide.

I caught a hickory shad right away in my first casting, and continued catching the shads whole morning.
I felt the bite of the shad almost every time when I was stripping the line.  Sometimes it was hooked and sometimes not.

Although a large number of the hickory shads was around the Hook point this morning, I didn't want to miss the chance of catching stripers.
I changed the small sand eel fly to the bunker fly because its large hook would be too big for the shad mouth, but it was not large enough.  I still caught the shads.

Most of the fishermen around me also caught shads except one lucky guy who also caught two stripers.

    Well, catching any kind of fish is better than none.

Surf Candy Fly

I talked about my sand eel fly in the surf candy fly pattern last time.

I would like to talk in detail  how to make this fly with the 5-minute epoxy and E-Z body material.

1)  Place a piece of E-Z body over the tail material.

2)  Apply the epoxy on the E-Z body.
 Then set the fly on the rotary dryer to dry.

 3)  Place the eyes and apply the epoxy a second time.  Set the fly on the rotary dryer again to dry.

To make the surf candy fly this way, I can make its body smooth and in good shape.  I don't even need the special flash light and material usually used for making the surf candy fly.

Sand Eel Fly

I fished in Sandy Hook and Rockaway last weekend.

The water was rough. The wind direction also gave me a hard time.

I had no luck.

I made sand eel flies with the surf candy pattern for Sandy Hook fishing because stripers took sand eels a week ago.

I used the 5-minute epoxy for the surf candy body, but it was difficult to make a smooth and even thickness body with the epoxy, so I put E-Z body material as an applying base for the epoxy. In doing so it would be like I put epoxy on the E-Z body fly. This worked well to make a good body shape.

When the epoxy seeped through the E-Z body, it made a solid body.

The E-Z body's light reflection quality like the fish scale unchanged inside the epoxy body.

To my surprise, the epoxy with the E-Z body base created an even more attractive body color than a simple epoxy body.