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I fished the Kent Narrows MD 4th Annual CCA Tournament with Tony Friedrich who has local knowledge in Eastern Bay waters where we fished today.  We both entered the fly fishing division. I brought NO spinning or casting tackle, just fly rods.

The day began with me catching a little dink...but I will show the picture below because it's the 1st striper I have caught using a sinking line. This method will open up many new areas of fly fishing for me as you can get the fly down pretty deep using this special line.



Tony caught about a dozen fish and I caught five but they were all less than 18". Incredibly, there was only one fish weighed in for the Fly fishing division so if one of the fish we caught would have been 18", one of could have taken 2nd place. Yeah, I know....woulda coulda shoulda.

For the fly guys, the fishing was tough because we had an outgoing tide and a SW wind which made drifting difficult. When one is fishing a deep sinking line, a proper drift is critical (I fond this out today).

Anyway, Tony has lots of experience and I learned tons from him for which I am grateful.

With about an hour to o in the tourney, Tony got a all from his friend Dave who had not really fished because he had 2-3 folks on his boat and he had to do all the driving. So we went and got Dave to see if we could get him a fish but to no avail.

But he was not upset as you will see in the picture below (Dave and Tony).



Another excellent day on the water!

Ernie

PS- This was the 1st time I had the new boat out in "real" salty type water and she handled beautifully.Both Tony and Dave complemented me on the great ride it had both in a following sea and with a chop.