Brent with another nice perch on a brown checkerboard and the Airflo 260grn Surf line.

I guess you could say I am back in the full swing of things. Three guided outings in 4 days and no ill effects to the old body. All the pieces are still where they should be. I am very happy. Saturday I had the Bakersfield group out and they hammered the perch. Monday I had a young man out who gave it all he had. In his own words when he hooked the corbina we were targeting, ” I AM FREAKING OUT”. He lost the fish but beat out the guy who had been stalking that fish before we got there. The kid is fearless and going to put us all to shame in the future, so much heart.

If you want a rocket launcher of a fly rod, try the ECHO EPR!! I got the 6wt the other day, gave a casting lesson today and used it in the lesson. Well, not at first. We started off with a ION XL 6wt with the 225grn Surf line and the client was easily casting 60 feet and felt very comfortable with that combo. Then I handed him the EPR with the 260grn Surf line and he threw about a 75 foot cast. The look he gave me was hysterical. Guess who wants one now? This was his first attempt at fly casting. I wanted to add that they list this rod as “Super fast and super powerful”

https://echoflyfishing.com/project/echoepr-2/

I went out 3 hours before peak low tide and found one hell of a piece of structure, what I call a reversed Nike swish. Think pointy end on the beach and large portion going out to sea. It was probably the biggest one I have ever seen in that is was 200 yards long. As the tide was going out the water would rush downhill, to the left, with each surge taking all the water with it. This made keeping a 260grn line straight impossible. I found a good hole farther down the beach and fished it for a handful of perch on the Boos Beach rod, all 12 feet of it. It is so much fun to throw this rod. It was beautiful out there today.

Don was slaying the perch out at the Channel Islands on the red checkerboard recently. Nice!

Charles from Massachusetts here visiting his daughter with his first ever fly caught barred surf perch. First client since the accident and boy, was I sore afterwards. More to follow.