2 GUYS FROM ITALY

I had 2 Italians coming across the big pond to fish with me for 6 days in November. One was Paolo Pacchiarini who is a very accomplished fly fisherman and has published articles in many Italian magazines. They had never fished our waters before and were very excited to get out and sample what we had to offer. Unfortunately, a cold front blew through with 20-30 knot winds the 1st day and we had to cancel that day,  but we were able to get out the rest of the days. We didn't have the greatest of conditions, but we managed to put together a couple of good days. They had a fair amount of opportunities at some nice redfish and black drum considering the conditions we had. We were having an early cold winter so far with some of those Canadian fronts coming all the way down to Louisiana and giving us a blast of cold weather.  One of the days, Paolo hooked into some nice speckled trout. He picked up one and I staked off the boat and he casted a clouser in the same spot and caught about 15 trout one after another. Paolo's fishing companion caught and landed a 32lb black drum  right before Paolo caught an 18lber.
All in all they got some great photos to take back to Italy of the fish they caught and Paolo is planning on publishing a story in one of the Italian magazines about the trip. He's going to send me a copy when it comes out. I won't be able to read it, but I can look at the pictures.

                                          Capt. Barrett

FISH  n  CHICKS

2 women from Connecticut get in on some awesome redfishing. Laura and Gio had a fantastic day sightcasting to fish after fish on what turned out to be one of the most picture perfect weather and fish days in a long time. It had been blowing very hard for the previous month. After running a half hour to get to where I start fishing, Laura turned around and asked "When are we going to start fishing?" I said "How about right over there." It only took her about 3 minutes to hook up on the first redfish of many. She replied afterwards that she would gladly have run for an hour if she knew the fishing was going to be like this. Little did she know, we would be in fish all day long. Everyone of the 19 fish they caught were sightcasted to in skinny water. They saw the whole thing.
During the course of the day, I moved from spot to spot and I idled back into a slew where I saw a big fish crawling down on the right side, way ahead of us. I pointed the fish out to Laura and in disbelief she said "that's a stump." Well as we got closer that stump started moving. It turned out to be about a 30-35lb fish we think. We'll never know, because after Laura hooked him he took off down the middle and got into her backing. I quickly started up the engine to catch up to him, but he got behind a brush pile and spit the fly.
At the end of the day Laura said "that was the best freakin day of guided fishing she had ever been on." She plans on coming back next year with her dad to try and catch that big one that got away.

         Tight Lines...Capt. Barrett

2 Guys from Wilmington, NC 

They came down with high expections having heard of the Land of the Giants and were looking to get into some big fish. Up until their 3 days of fishing with me last weekend(Nov 2-4), the wind had been blowing very hard for a solid month day and night just about . Conditions were tough as you would expect. The water was chocolate milk and it was very tough to hold the boat in any kind of position to get a shot on any fish we did see.and it was just as tough for the casters to make any kind of decent cast at anything. Those that made the decision to go out quickly found out it was no picnic. But I must say  everybody braved it out and we all gave it our best shot.
Enought about that, the fisrt day I decided to take them to Myrtle Grove on the West side of the river as the water tends to be less dirty with the grass over there. It was indeed fairly clear, but the fish had lock jaw with another passing front and we only managed to hook up on 5 redfish. Still not bad. The next two days I decided to go back to Hopedale on the east side as the wind had started to lighten up some. The next 2 days were real good. We water was still mirky, but we found plenty of fish and they had tons of opportunities at some quality fish. Included are a few pictures. The black drum was 47lbs and they caught a 34lb red. To say the least, they were not disappointed in the fishing experience and plan to come back again.

                       Tight Lines.......Capt. Barrett 
 
 

      AWESOME DECEMBER
 

Fishing in December for some of those big redfish was fantastic. It's one of the best months to do it. January can still have some great fishing too. So pick up the phone and call to book a trip of a lifetime. 
I fished Capt. Amanda Swisher, a well known stripper guide on the East coast, and she caught the biggest fish she said she had caught on a fly rod. She said that she is definitely going to come back. Walker Parrott, a freshwater guide in NC, also caught the biggest fish on fly he had ever caught, 30lber. His cousin, Will Parrott, also caught a nice fish.                Then there was John Bickford from Texas with his nephew, Capt Brett, a saltwater guide from Florida.     So as you can plainly see, you need to get down here and help us catch one of these fish. It could be you in my next picture.

                                        Capt. Barrett Brown
 
 

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