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MFF US Northeast => New Hampshire => Topic started by: peterkeene on Apr 20, 2022, 08:10 AM
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Anyone here own a Flycraft inflatable? I'm interested in buying one but would love to hear an honest review and/or see one in real life. Thanks!
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Never fished out of one but I saw one up in Pittsburg. A guy and his girl from CT had pulled into the Buck Rub Pub for lunch and had one strapped to the rack of their jeep. They were up to mouse the river (at night) and said they usually did pretty well.
Their Flycraft raft, on the other hand, didn't impress me much. Very narrow beam and seemed overall really small, kinda like one of those Sea Eagle inflatable kayaks. Granted, this was years ago and I'm sure it was the first generation raft and I know there are other bigger models in production. At the time I was considering some kind of boat/raft but I went with a small aluminum Lund. Couldn't be happier with my choice.
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Mousing at night, Lund, that’s my kind of party.
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Mousing at night, Lund, that’s my kind of party.
So far I've taken it out on the Andro, Penobscott and Merrimack, though not at night. I plan to hit the CT soon.
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So far I've taken it out on the Andro, Penobscott and Merrimack, though not at night. I plan to hit the CT soon.
No better aluminum on the market.
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Mousing at night, Lund, that’s my kind of party.
Its fun, miss more than you catch. Started a couple years ago after getting tired of all the new googans surfcasting for stripers. I have yet to see someone else mousing when I am. Its great.
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Mousing? Are you literally casting live mice for denizens of the deep? 😂 sounds like fun!
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Not live ones anf honeslty the browns go pretty shallow at night in the rivers, but ya.
(https://i.postimg.cc/s1s0b86g/20220422-085949.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/s1s0b86g)
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Killer mouse box!
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Yep I have a handful of spots I do it I just don’t talk about it ;D. Hardly anyone does it and it’s great.
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Yep I have a handful of spots I do it I just don’t talk about it ;D. Hardly anyone does it and it’s great.
Its because its legitimately scary. The best spots for me are far from lights and things do go bump in the night. Its weird that middle of the ocean im fine, surfcasting fine but it always feels like something(s) watching me.
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I thought it was illegal to fish for trout at night in NH? Or is it just illegal to keep them at night.
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I thought it was illegal to fish for trout at night in NH? Or is it just illegal to keep them at night.
Depends on whether it’s a river or not and which ones ;) ;) dont give too many hints away ;D
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Depends on whether it’s a river or not and which ones ;) ;) dont give too many hints away ;D
This!
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Killer mouse box!
Thanks Steve. Bunch of them are from flyfishfood. The ones with the glow tabs are from a guide in montana. They work really well. Ironically the big one works better than the small one.
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I’ve never done well ever in open water with glow lures besides catching squid and even then I prefer Pink
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I’ve never done well ever in open water with glow lures besides catching squid and even then I prefer Pink
Thats not for the fish my fine friend. Its so this guy can see where the heck the mouse is. I have glo fly line as well by scientific anglers but tend not to use it.
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Thats not for the fish my fine friend. Its so this guy can see where the heck the mouse is. I have glo fly line as well by scientific anglers but tend not to use it.
Strips on top of water on a lure make complete sense, good call, fly line no way, asking for a slow night. I always get a kick out of guys showing me a crazy new “ frog” they got yet all the color is above water, yep, you got caught ;D
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I’m old school at night, there’s no wrong as long as it’s BLACK, purple tickles my fancy as well.
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I’m old school at night, there’s no wrong as long as it’s BLACK, purple tickles my fancy as well.
Thats good colors for swinging wet flies at night. Can confrim trout dont give a sh*t about the glow fly line but generally speaking I am not casting that on top of them. My issue is charging it required headlamp turn on and I hate ruining my "night eyes"
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Anyone here own a Flycraft inflatable? I'm interested in buying one but would love to hear an honest review and/or see one in real life. Thanks!
I don't own one but based on the research that I did there are other less expensive options out there. I ended up getting a Dave Scadden raft for almost half the price of a Flycraft. It is similar in weight, slightly larger, but has its pros and cons. Customer service being one of the downsides as I didn't receive everything in one shipment and getting ahold of someone to speak with took some time. I can't say that I use it as much as I'd like but for its limited use it seems extremely stable, relatively light, maneuvers well. I even have a 55lb trolling motor that I put on it so I can go upstream and drift back down so I don't need a shuttle. He had some floor models from a expo discounted so at a little over 2 grand I couldn't resist.
Yet to take it out at night but have landed some trout at night on the mice Jon was referring to. One piece of advice is that you don't need to move the fly too much to entice a bite. I seem to get most of my hits when it is sitting still. Maybe a strip or two to get their attention and then leave it there and wait until you feel weight to set the hook or you will pull it out of their mouth.
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I’ve never done well ever in open water with glow lures besides catching squid and even then I prefer Pink
Glow=fluke
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Glow=fluke
Makes sense, wish we had them here. Noticed no benefit with the Winter Flounder.
How far are you from West Warwick? Gonna be there shortly. I’d like to find out