Well this will be my first post to the forums, usually my friend, browningfisherman, post. Well for spring break from MU my buddy and I decided for a 4 day trip to Montauk/Current with the girlfriends. We arrived at the park and set up shop Saturday afternoon with drizzle on and off. We left the girls in the camper and went down to tan vat. It wasn't stellar but we had some luck with us. There was a dry fly hatch at the parking lot and picked up a few on drys. Worked our way downstream fishing as we went. Ended up with a few Bows but nothing to write home about. The water was not dirty, but it had the green/blue heavy hue. Here is a fish from the night. Didn't measure but really close to 17" if it wasn't.
Then Sunday we decided to fish the park. The weather wasn't the best but the fishing was pretty good. Temps were low 40's, high 30's and cloudy. Midges were the main use, olive, red, and creme were the go to's for that day. In one of the pools laid a very nice trout. My buddy cast to him for a while then I tried. When almost all hope was lost I changed colors and there he was. Again water was I would say slightly high, and still off color, blue/green. 22 1/2", 5 lb 10 ounces
Monday we fished the park again in the morning and found the colors that were working. Then the afternoon we all packed up and went to Baptist which was the best decision we made. The fish were biting and biting hard. My g/f hooked into a brown that would of went 5+#. unfortunately he got away from us before we could land him, awesome awesome fish. My buddy hooked into a big rainbow right after the brown, but in the swift water couldn't turn him and got under a tree in the water and broke off. We picked up a few more bows in the water by the access then worked on down. The browns were biting. We used the same midges as earlier and they were still hitting just as hard there as in the park and the nice thing was, the browns were hitting too! After the first two big fish got away we didn't get into anything monster after that but picked up some nice 15-16" browns down river. Even got one that ran under a rootwad and out the other side, I couldnt pull him back through so I crossed the stream reached under the water breaking up the roots and getting my line free with the fish still on! Lucky me and thanks to a good leader! I do like Rio leaders, And I can vouch for them there cause i would pull and he would pull and we seesawed the heck out of it before i could get the line free from the wad. We caught a lot of fish on about any color we threw. They were defiantly feeding.
Tuesday Morning
Decided to go back to Baptist and fish again hoping it was anything like the night before. Not even close. Water still a little off color with the blue/green but not bad at all. Still the deeper holes were the darker blue color and not clear. Couldn't hardly catch any. We might of managed 10-15 between all of us for the 4 hours we fished. The fish must of been feeding before a new weather system was rolling in, since it did rain in the night. All in all I can say it was a good spring break, could of been warmer but the amounts of fish and good times shared was well worth it.
