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frijoles y moscas…
A sight fishing intro to corbina presentation by Al Q and Jon Nakano this Sunday morning at 9:30 am at The Fisherman’s Spot in Van Nuys.
I asked my long time fly fishing buddy, Jon Nakano to join me on Sunday morning at The Fisherman’s Spot, in Van Nuys to give his insights on our favorite summer sight fishing, surf species, the Corbina. I have had the good fortune to fish alongside Jon for many seasons, he’s like the corbina whisperer. LOL The presentation is only 45 minutes so we will try to jam in as much local knowledge as we can, we hope to see some new faces out there on Sunday morning…there will be a short ten minute video at the end. cheers – Al Q
it’s starting early, notes from a beanaholic…
ok, last year I had to pleasure of meeting Glenn Ueda and posting many of his corbina adventures with you. I met Glenn fishing one morning on one of my local beaches, we became Corbina pals and I got him to come visit some of my home water. Glenn was on a tear last season, and ended up having the dream corbina season landing 25 sight caught fish off the beach in one season, pretty cool stuff.
Glenn’s epic 25 fish season 2014, photos by glenn ueda
So it’s the end of March and as many of you know, California is experiencing another El Nino year. Our water temps have been in the low and mid sixties throughout the winter. Yellowtail are literally beaching themselves, grin! We don’t have much bait in our surf other than grunion, the sand crab beds haven’t begun to take shape yet. We have sighted some fish recently in the Southbay, but they didn’t seem to be aggressively feeding. Well, Glenn got out last week on his bike and scouted the lay of the land, somewhere in Orange County and found some fish walking the shoreline and and got them to eat the fly. I hope we get some of those feeders up our way soon. He landed three beans on two separate days. We will be following his fish counts closely this year, with this great start Glenn could break his previous mark. I hope he does, he really works hard at it…no free lunches…good luck buddy LOL
“Wanted to update your blog readers on the first 3 corbina of the season! They were caught in a two day timespan, and is typical, the structure was eliminated under a crushing swell. Being March, not many fish sighted yet, and though water temps are hovering in the 65 degree range, sand crab beds are still absent. Perhaps, the memory of what should be there has them feeding in tight to the beach and thus tempted by the small #8 grey merkins I’ve been tossing. Regardless, I am encouraged by what I am seeing and remain hopeful that this will be another special year for a species that I have to come to admire, respect, and pursue endlessly.”
Take care,
Glenn
photo by Glenn Ueda
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a river runs through it…
It is great to see lots of young anglers excited about fishing the la river these days. I recently went back to the LAR these past two weekends with a couple of good buddies, and had the first hand experience of enjoying them hook and land their first carp on the fly. I was fortunate to get introduced to this place around ten years ago by another good fishing buddy Jon Nakano, me and James Dwyer met him at the concrete river and fished what we called dough flies back then. They were just some wool over a small hook with maybe one wrap of lead around the shank to let them sink very slowly in the current. We would drift them right to the holding carp and they ate them like popcorn. We all connected back then but it was to be quite frank, a little sketchy down there, populated with some crazy local homeless characters.
Al Q back in 2007 with a concrete carp and a vulcan sleep hold. Photo by James Dwyer.
Now with Friends of the LA River (FOLAR) making people more aware of this really cool place, it is getting a little cleaner, family friendly and more people are starting to experience the little jewel that runs right through the heart of downtown LA. If you can eliminate some of the trash, wires over head and graffiti, there are some stretches of the river that can make you forget you are in a populated urban environment. Anyhow, here a a few pics from the last couple of weekends, the smiles in my friends faces will paint the pictures and as you will see the carp are still eating flies…
photo by Al Q
photo by Al Q
couple of canadian geese enjoying the early morning photo by Al Q
my good buddy Jim Solomon with his first LA river goldfish. Photo by Al Q
Nick Blixt changing flies. Photo by Al Q
Here’s one I got drifting a fly through a run. Photo by Al Q
any fly that rides hook up and has some weight to get it down depending on the flow of water will work. If the water is deeper that two feet add a small split shot. red and black, white and chartreuse work good. Photo by Al Q
Glenn Ueda is all smiles after masterfully landing this trophy LA river carp. His first carp on flyand it ate a #10, red and black fly I tied. Photo by Al Q
clean and green. Photo by AL Q
This guy ate one of Glenn’s pink bonefish puffs and jumped on it on the first cast. Photo by Al Q
old pink lips sliding up the bank.Photo by Al Q
Pink bonefish puff, breakfast of champions. Photo by Al Q
nice article on lefty…
Lefty has had quite a life, here’s a great Q&A about some of his wonderful memories at 90 years young…
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happy birthday lefty!
card designed by Al Q
What an amazing life and still going strong at 90 years young. Lefty still continues to drive and fly around the world fly fishing with royalty. He will always be my mentor and the fountain of saltwater fly fishing knowledge. We are all blessed to have had him affect our flyfishing lives in some form or fashion… happy birthday pal.
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carpland…on the fly fishing film tour
Our friends at the Fly Stop in San Diego and all-star cameraman Austin “Dirtycarp” Trayser of Beattie Outdoor Productions put together this sweet carp adventure film. Look for it at the Fly Fishing Film Tour this year…
visit the CARPLAND page
watch the CARPLAND TRAILER here!
stripah on steriods…
i just got my drake magazine (love this publication) and on the cover there was a topic line, “biggest striper, page 36” so what do I do?, being an old east coast striper fisherman, I rip through the pages and go directly to to page 36 to find this awesome graffiti image painted by Will Harden located under the Barnstable railroad bridge in Cape Cod. It apparently is something like 12 feet long. there is a great story behind the painting which is worth the read. It was photographed by Tosh Brown. next time I find my self in the cape, I plan to pay homage to the concrete cow!
flies, sand & surf 