Conan the Librarian wrote in message Like what the
bassfisherbubbas call a "stinger hook".


Chuck Vance (or is that unethical?)

I tend to like unethical myself. So I would have
no reservations about a stinger hook.
I think that would work well too, most of the time.
I've experimented with fishing two bonefish flies at once,
so why not a stinger?

Well, on this last trip, the wind was at near hurricane
levels the whole time. It isn't always like that, but
it sure was two weeks ago in the Bahamas. My buddy John
and I stayed two days a lodge on XXXX, where just about
everybody there either gave up and stayed home or did their
best and got skunked.

But we managed to catch fish every day, because, well,
both of us are pretty good with the fly rod.
But big flies were difficult.

There was a film crew down there, from the same right wing
cable TV outfit that ran the Swift Boat Veterans adds
a few days before the election. They were trying to tape
a syndicated fishing show. So we were particularly
happy when they came in empty handed, and we'd caught 17.

The wind was so bad that day the guides couldn't pole the boats,
so we spent the day walking. Late in the afternoon, with
a low tide at the mouth of the bight, we saw (but didn't catch)
some ocean flats fish so big it was hard to believe.

They were smart and spooky--even in the gale force winds.
I wanted to throw something big at them, but I couldn't make
the cast. And I am pretty good at it. That's why I want to
figure out how to make the biggest, yet easiest to cast fly.