Things are ultra-quiet here now. We are between storms - Gabrielle was last weekend. It was only briefly a storm, but a low formed behind it that had the hardest rain that we have seen since Hurricane Earl in 2010. We had two solid days and nights (Wednesday and Thursday) of downpours. No one is complaining, though - it was the first real rain of the entire year. Things will be getting green, and the skeeters should be showing up about tomorrow.
Yesterday (Saturday) afternoon was a fly-fishing treat right in front of our house. I got into a school of small jack, and was catching them just about as fast as I could land them and get my fly back into the water. The action went on for about 10 minutes or so.
We did not see a single person or vehicle from Thursday night until last night (Saturday), which was domino night. Our friends Keith and Llewellyn come over on Saturday nights and we enjoy a couple of hours of dominoes. Sandy sat in one of those nights back in June.
This afternoon, I took Nancy out trolling on the reef off of our house. The fish were in a biting mood - we caught somewhere over a dozen in a couple of hours - mostly horse-eye jack.
A couple of pics...
![](http://www.nwmangum.com/pyzaz/BVI2013-AugSept/130908-134558.jpg)
![](http://www.nwmangum.com/pyzaz/BVI2013-AugSept/130908-143955.jpg)
We came back in, tied the boat up, and I took my fly rod back out to the front yard. The fish were in a playful mood again. Nothing large - mostly palometa. I caught a dozen or so of them in about 15 minutes on my "fun rod" - a 7'6" TFO 6wt TiCRx. Here is a short video. Notice that I am fishing pretty much right next to my wife swimming (next to the Whaler). Don't worry - I have my shorts on....
Yesterday (Saturday) afternoon was a fly-fishing treat right in front of our house. I got into a school of small jack, and was catching them just about as fast as I could land them and get my fly back into the water. The action went on for about 10 minutes or so.
We did not see a single person or vehicle from Thursday night until last night (Saturday), which was domino night. Our friends Keith and Llewellyn come over on Saturday nights and we enjoy a couple of hours of dominoes. Sandy sat in one of those nights back in June.
This afternoon, I took Nancy out trolling on the reef off of our house. The fish were in a biting mood - we caught somewhere over a dozen in a couple of hours - mostly horse-eye jack.
A couple of pics...
![](http://www.nwmangum.com/pyzaz/BVI2013-AugSept/130908-134558.jpg)
![](http://www.nwmangum.com/pyzaz/BVI2013-AugSept/130908-143955.jpg)
We came back in, tied the boat up, and I took my fly rod back out to the front yard. The fish were in a playful mood again. Nothing large - mostly palometa. I caught a dozen or so of them in about 15 minutes on my "fun rod" - a 7'6" TFO 6wt TiCRx. Here is a short video. Notice that I am fishing pretty much right next to my wife swimming (next to the Whaler). Don't worry - I have my shorts on....
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