Late September from Shore??

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Norty

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Some friends and I are heading down. Is this a good time to fish down there from shore? We only fly fish. Not an elitist thing. Just how we like to fish. We'll have lots of flies, mostly wondering about time of year.

One of the party says he has heard that most of the fish move out to deeper/cooler water that time of year because its so hot through August. What do you guys think?

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Kenny

Kenny

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No, the fishing should be good, no it will be. The shore fishing slows down some when the water starts cooling off at the end of October, and it's very slowwww by new years.
You should do fine at either estuary south of town, the first being Maura, and then La Pinta.
 
Kenny

Kenny

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Looking at some of your pictures reminded me of when I used to fish of the rocks in North Laguna beach back in the 60's and early seventies, at both Emerald and Crescent bay. Some good fun there!
 
moore_rb

moore_rb

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I just posted a reply in your hotel thread....

Ditto what Kenny says - September is still good shore fishing, and the weather will be HOT and sweaty.

The estuaries Kenny mentios are east of town off the caborca highway, and the area I mentioned north of town is also good.

Thing is, if one of those areas is good, then the other one will also be good, so it doesn't really matter where you choose.

If you are REALLY interested in the possibility of a dry fly rise, then heading to the flats north of town would be a better area to try, but you are really taking a gamble with the wind, tide, and water clarity. When we used to fish that area we would camp out there and might find one or two good dry-fly windows over a 3 day period.

If you are only mainly interested in sticking a fish, even if it's on a deeply fished wet-fly, then save your time (and gas) and head straight out from the Grenada and fish that area.
 
moore_rb

moore_rb

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Ditto on your website... awesome.

Were those pike out of Lake Mary? I'm an NAU grad who spent a lot of time bending a fly rod on big Perkins Tank Rainbows and JD Dam Brownies...

If you got lucky enough to drift one of those dead muskrat flies past a 10 pound Leopard Grouper or Pinto Bass I'll bet they'd eat it...


If you want REAL summer time Sea of Cortez adventure- then run an hour or two down the coast to Santo Tomas or to the beaches north of Puerto Lobos and try to hang a Roosterfish on a fly. The biggest question will be can you strip fast enough? Roosters usually don't give chase to an artificial if it isn't moving 800 miles per hour, but if you do manage to stick one, then it is on like donkey-kong.

Roosters and their cold water cousins the yellowtail are, pound for pound, the hardest fighting fish on Earth (IMHO of course) . The unfortunate after-effect to catching one will be that the trout at Lee's Ferry and the San Juan suddenly won't feel like they fight that hard anymore.... :cool:
 
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Kenny

Kenny

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Were those pike out of Lake Mary?
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I was thinking it probably was upper Lake Mary, and I was also thinking about getting Don who lives in Flagstaff to have a go at some with me.
AZ, game and fish. July 11th
UPPER LAKE MARY — Had a report to the office of a large black crappie, a 20-pound channel catfish and a 15-pound northern being caught in the last couple of weeks. Water levels are dropping and larger boats can only be launched at the second boat ramp. Boat anglers are doing well fishing for northern pike and walleye. Fishing is slow from the shore,
 
Kenny

Kenny

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hour or two down the coast to Santo Tomas
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The spit, or little estuary that we drive down to on the beach from Jerry's , (12 miles north) would be great fishing on a incoming with a fly rod. I've tried rigging up just like I would for Steelies up in the small rivers I fished up in Washington State just for the fun of it, and it worked just fine. The way the water runs into that place on a incoming high tide is very much like a running river, so why wouldn't it?
 
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Norty

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You guys are awesome. Thanks for the suggestions. We really do respect the fish that give us so much enjoyment. Not wrong to keep a few legally for some hot oil every now and again but its also good to release fish to fight another day.

So the pike were from two places. Upper lake mary is a great place for lots of smaller pike up to about 28". Black flies with some yellow seem to work well. We fish the very south west shoreline. The other lake, the one with the big ones, is called Long Lake. Its between Flagstaff and Payson. Few fish but bigger.

Moore_RB,
This,
"If you want REAL summer time Sea of Cortez adventure- then run an hour or two down the coast to Santo Tomas or to the beaches north of Puerto Lobos and try to hang a Roosterfish on a fly. The biggest question will be can you strip fast enough? Roosters usually don't give chase to an artificial if it isn't moving 800 miles per hour, but if you do manage to stick one, then it is on like donkey-kong."

Sounds AMAZING! I agree with what you say about the salt water fish too. I've recently caught some Tarpon, Dorado, and Yellow Fins and it makes trout fishing less and less apealing lol.

How safe are these areas down the coast? I've been to RP twice, we built two homes for humanitarian aid, and felt very safe there. I worry a little about venturing elsewhere. I'm fluent in spanish though, I lived in Guatemala for two years as a missionary.
 
Ladyjeeper

Ladyjeeper

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The road down the coast is safe. I've been to Puerto Lobos twice in the last 2 years and felt safe.
 
Kenny

Kenny

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I'm not sure where this is, but it's much further south than Lobo's. I was just in Puerto Lobo two months ago, and if you have the time, go for it! I'm hoping to head back myself in September, and my goal is to catch a Rooster on vintage spinning gear from shore. Or maybe just cheap spinning gear from shore..LOL
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Kenny

Kenny

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Ha!, I took a quick glance at your post earlier today Joe, but it seems to have done the old "exit, stage left".:think:
 
Stuart

Stuart

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Indeed. Posts deliberately injecting politics where they don't belong simply to :stir: will continue to be deleted -- no matter which side of the political fence you live on. If I find myself with a few repeat offenders, they'll be taking a vacation to Banned Camp as well. Side-tracking other members well-intentioned threads with this nonsense in the General Forums is over. You want poke each other with sticks, go below to Rants and Raves and have a no-holds-barred cage match. Or meet behind Guau-Guaus.
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Kenny

Kenny

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Like I said, I only took a quick glance at it and I don't remember anything political about it. I just thought it inferred that the pooch couldn't find his way home, not alone to Guau Guau's... I could be wrong though:think:, I was still half asleep.
 
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