TroutFearMe

Not to much to report except this winter fishing thing is really tuff. Started out at the end of the park using several differant colors of marabou jigs mainly pink, pink with crystal hair, black, black with crystal hair you name I used the color with no luck. Then switched up and used rooster tail and same story. I started up stream and found a couple schools of fish and switched to a light pink glo ball and had several bite but they were just nipping the fly, changed colors and nothing happend so I moved up stream again. The one thing I noticed was that they were all just under the surface and at time you could see there backs sticking out of the water, so I figured they might be feeding at the surface so I went and got my fly rod and put on a #20 caddis in tan color on and had the same results. Here it is high noon and after a one and a half drive and four hours of fishing and still no fish. I then put on one of my goto flys that when I baught it 2 years ago looked like a pale morning dun but now looks like a size 20 hunk of matted thread all but non existent hackle with two wings that look like hackle tips without the fibers on it. I casted it out with the lightest cast I could do and out of know where something took it I never even saw the fish that took it not even ten seconds into the I dropped my rod tip the fish straight lined me and I never saw my goto fly again I then went up stream to the chute that dumps into the deep up by the hacthery and tried a tan colored scud and thats where the day changed, on my first cast with a new fly that I had never fished before I let it swing down stream and right under the tree branchs there that hang over the stream I noticed my indecated was under but not moving that it was a snag boy I was wrong. I lifted my tip just slightly to try and free it and thats when I saw my tip bend in a way I have never saw it bend before, in fear the my knot wasn't going to hold, I played the fish a little thinking it was just a little stocker using the current to his advantage put then a got a glimps of what was going to turn out to be the biggest trout that I ever had on the end of my line. I must have faught this fish for what felt like five minutes when I decided it was time to land this big guy and get him back in the stream to fight another day. I got him close enough to net him but decided I would beach him instead once landed the fished measured out at 26 inches and must have weighed about 3-4 lbs this is the one time that I didn't have my cam to photo him so I guess this one is just going to have to be a memory, I gave her a kiss and wished her farewell and put her back in the stream to fight another day. It wasn't the best fishing that I have had only one fish in eightt hours of fishing but I was by far the biggest fish I had ever caught.

This might not be the best rig but I tend to just tye a loop on my leader and the tye onto that. I just use a standerd knot and its never failed me.P.S when you tye the loop i use super glue for added knot strength

what is the best way to fish a midge pattern

Does anyone have an A-List of color and size of flies they like to use at Meremac during C&R. I am finally make my first trip down for catch and release season on Jan 7th, my last trip was scrubed in Dec because my future brother inlaw and fishing buddy was killed in a hunting incident on the day before me and him were going to fish C&R. This is going to be a tribute trip to him so any help would be greaty appretiated. Thank you in advance

I was thinking about going down my fience had given me a early xmas gift in the form a battenkill mid arber the night before all this happened and then on xmas day she got me a Connon Eos Xti so i got some new toys to play with but don't have my fishing buddy. Kinda makes things not so fun anymore, but let me know if your going because I might just have to get out of the house

Yeah they are all over the place in St Louis but here is a link to there website http://www.cccamera.com/ there is a link there to contact them you or you could call them but I think they had a couple.

Hey Bmann when are you planning on going down again I wasn't able to make it down there a couple a weeks ago because my fishing partner and future brother inlaw was injured in a hunting incendt and passed away they day me and him were supposed to go down to meremac let me know

I don't have an XTI to offer but I do have one for myself and its my first digital slr and from just playing around with it I have found it to be a very easy to use cam. I was in Creve Couer camera the other day and I think I saw a couple of them there that were lightly used.

Not very much I tend to go to montauk and fish the trophy waters more then anything. I am going to Maramec on thursday to give it a shot I have fished there two other time and did ok, but I really love to fish montauk

What size and color of scuds were working best

Anyone going to be off on thursday and heading down to Meramec I am going down in the morning and stay until 3 in the afternoon if nyone wannted to car pool down or wanted to meet up. Anyone have any fishing reports for the park I figured that I would give winter C&R a try this year let me know.

The other day i made my reguler trip to BPS to pick up some more materiel to tye some flys. I liked going to BPS for my tying materiel because there was a older gentalman there that has help me along the way from first time rod and reel purchase to all the tying materiel I own. So I made my trip back to the fly fishing area and there was somone new working back there, I started talking to him and noticed right there on the counter was a picture of the old man that helped me out all the time, so i started reading the cards that were attached to the pics and then the more i read the bigger the lump in my throat got. I asked the young kid behind the counter what had happen to him and if it was true what I was reading. Mr Bommarito passed away about a month ago and now the man that helped me so much when it came to fly fishing is gone. Mr Bommerito you will be missed very much I touched my life in so many ways that you will never know and Thank You for teaching me how to tye. R.I.P Mr Bommerito

what was working best over the weekend. I am going down to Montauk this up coming weekend and was wonding if any has any good reports of what was working and what was not.

Anyone going to Montauk the weekend of 8/17. I am staing at campsite 101 if anyone wants to stop by. Are there any good fishing reports out there.

Does anyone know the current fishing hours at meramec springs

Did anyone fish this weekend after all this rain what is the stream like and how was the fishing what worked and what didn't let me and everyone else know please

So they rent them right there at the lodge, are they chest waders or hip waders.

Does anyone know where I can rent a pair of waders. I am taking some people down to Montauk and one of the people don't own a pair of waders and doesn't want to buy a pair, let me know please

Other then making this a fishing guide what else would everyone want to see in this book

All of your feed back is great and please new viewer please post and thank for all of your comments so far please keep them coming

Well at least there is one positive person about this. I just started writing this book because I work a very mind numbing job ie jewelry sales and I found on slow days it really passes the time and I figured that it would give anglers another avenue to try somthing new. Everything I have learned about trout I have read in a book or from testing new methods and tactics. The only bad part is when you think you have figured them out they do something differant.

Fortunately I would pick up the tab to get the thing going but thank you all for the feed back but I still think there is a niche for somthing like this.

If someone wrote a book about how,when,where,and what to use to catch trout at Montauk would you buy it and for how much would you pay. Please reply back either on the topic or you can send you comments to my email address btutt63123@yahoo.com

I guess its called the white oak hole, but I also noticed that the fish were basicly laying on the bottom and all the fish I caught were full of eggs or sperm the trout are getting ready to spawn.

Well sorry it took so long to put this up but while I was at Montauk over the weekend I found out that there was a death on my better half's side of the family. Well what more can I say but the fishing was very tuff all weekend long, I had my best luck on Friday up in the fly area I land 10 stocker size trout in about an hour on a custome made jig I tied myself it was a white and black jig with some wing in flash tied in it. Saturday was a little differant story all together it seemed like the fish had lock jaw but I managed to land 4 on a jig I tied called the drunken fish and this jig got its named because I was really tipsy when tied it up in the middle of the night while I was at camp. Sunday was a lot harder I started in the fly area using a very uncommon pheasant tail nimph pattern that I modified a little bit. I land one trout on that but only with the help of my little brother because he was watching my indicator while I b.s.ing with someone, I then went back to using my ultra light up at the powerbait hole with a pink jig with wing and flash tied in it, I picked up another three in that hole