Uptown angler, Leland Fly shop and Travis Holeman

Went out today to have a guides day off with Capt. Travis Holeman. We got the opportunity to fish with former Uptown Angler manager Hunter Heumann and the present manager of Leland Fly Shop, MJ Jones. Leland Fly Shop is one of the biggest outfitter in the U.S. and won the retailer of the year in 2009 at the fly tackle retailers show. Leland is located in San Fransisco and has a great online presence in the fly fishing community. This was MJ’s first time fishing the Louisiana marsh so we wanted to make sure we showed him a great time. We got to the first spot and MJ was up first, we went up into a pocket that I have been fishing this past week and MJ landed a nice 12 pound redfish on fly right off the bat. After that we were going down a couple deeper edges and he got a few shots at some monster reds but the fish weren’t acting right and we didn’t capitalize. Travis was able to sight fish a 25 pound redfish on convetional gear and when I was getting ready to pull the fish out of the water with the Boga Grip the fish shook loose and came off the hook when he landed back in the water, bummer. This would have been a good redfish to take a picture with. We made a move to our next spot and it was my turn to get up on the casting platform of Travis’s Lake & Bay bay boat. We saw a fish immediately when we stopped cruising down the shoreline. I made a cast and threw the fly a little behind the fish, I picked back up and threw another cast about a foot in front of the red and made one strip and it was over, another nice 15 lb. redfish on fly. We messed around for a little while longer before the wind picked up and the scum sky came in. We ended up landing 4 reds on fly and a few more on conventional. We also got a dozen or so nice speckled trout to take home for dinner. Another great day on the water and it was a ton of fun sharing the day with Travis, Hunter, and MJ. Tight Lines!

Solid redfish on Fly.