by Ken Abrames

It’s a special time for fly fishermen. If you have never fished the spring run then you have missed the sweetest part. It’s a wonderful time to fish for stripers. The things you see can only be witnessed in the spring. The spawning shrimp and mummies, the horseshoe crabs bumping into your booted feet, the silversides and the clam worm hatch and stripers. Stripers everywhere. That’s how I like to think about spring. Tidal rivers and creeks, small water, fish that are predictable in where they hold and feed. Good fishing, easy and hard, sometimes a stretch to catch even one and sometimes you leave exhausted from way too many fish caught and the next evening you return and do it all again. It’s the way it is in spring.       Read more here…