6/3/2023 0 Comments Salt water drift© 2023 Coastal Angler Magazine Franchising, Inc. Nick Carter is author of “Flyfisher’s Guide to North Carolina & Georgia,” available on Amazon or by emailing the author at South Patrick Dr. And when you’re not fishing, you’re floating past a lot of good water. When you’re dealing with foul-ups, you’re not fishing. type of single-celled algae-simply drift wherever the water takes them. Staying within the boundaries can avert a lot of frustration and time spent untangling lines or pulling hooks out of the rower’s face. Sea animals keep internal water levels balanced by flushing out excess salt. The rear angler gets everything from the rower back. The angler in the front of the boat gets everything from the rower forward. Really, that’s what you should be doing… as long as you’re fishing within your boundaries. It is hard not to aim and fire at the next good-looking run every time you finish a retrieve. Look out ahead, pick a good line, cast, and drift away.īOUNDARIES: Staying within the boundaries is important, especially when chunking and stripping streamers. If you’re diligent in mending the line, you can achieve an almost infinite drag-free drift. Making a 45-degree cast upstream of the boat allows your fly line and the boat to float along together. One of the cool things about fishing from a drift boat is you’re floating along at the same speed as the river. And, unless you’re streamer fishing, there isn’t a need to do a lot of false casting or even cast much at all. By watching the front angler, the back angler can fish the good water his buddy missed.ĬASTING: Theoretically, if both anglers cast using the same angles, there should never be an issue with crossed lines. Paying attention also allows the rear angler to do his clean-up duty effectively. The rear angler must pay attention to what the rower and front angler are doing and adjust accordingly. The front angler will be facing forward, which means he can’t see what’s going on in the boat. The angler in the rear is tasked with clean-up duty, and he’s also responsible for avoiding crossed lines. If you’re up front and see an obstacle you suspect the rower doesn’t, let him know. The oar-man can’t see through the angler standing in the front of the boat. His only duties are to fish well and occasionally look up to monitor for danger. The angler at the front of the boat is in the catbird seat. When he starts backstroking hard, be ready to cast. ![]() When he barks out, “long seam, river left!” he’s trying to help you catch fish. If he is a hired guide, he should also know the river, which means he knows where fish hold. For safety, the anglers must do what he says. ![]() The rower’s job is to position the boat so everyone is safe and the anglers have good casts to likely lies. ![]() TEAMWORK: If both anglers and the rower work together, things tend to go much more smoothly. A drift boat and a good oar-man can be flyfisher’s best friends, but there are some rules everyone must follow. With two anglers flailing away from either end of drift boat, there is huge potential for monumental foul-ups.
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