Report Aug 8-9

[BKB]

Friday August 8 11:00am-4:40pm Baptist

Arrived at Baptist and fished the riffle above the access as there was a church youth group of about 30 putting in when I arrived. Caught 5 (2 rainbow and 3 brown) in my first 45 minutes. Moved downstream a bit and caught another brown right at the access where the youth were putting in and swimming. The first rainbow I caught was a nice 17 inches and fat! The other two rainbows were about 11-12 inches and all the browns were 10". I walked downstream dodging canoes to the big 90 degree bend about halfway to Ashley creek. Caught nothing! Had 2 hookups, one on a dry EHC. All fish were caught on a size 16 chartruse copper john. Heck...even all the minnows I caught were on that as well!

Saturday August 9 9:30am-11:00pm Below Cable

As I drove into the park around 8:30, I saw the largest Trico hatch I have ever seen! Huge clouds over the entire length of the stream...drove through a cloud when I went over the 119 bridge! Walked down to the cable outside the park and caught 2 (1 rainbow, 1 brown) in the 2nd riffle below the cable and 1 rainbow (16" and beautiful dark coloring) in the upper part of the cabin hole. I was following 2 guys downstream and felt that I was crowding them, so I decided to head up to the park and fish.

Saturday August 9 11:00-2:30pm Fly Only Area in Montauk

The human hatch was almost as large as the morning Trico hatch! Extremely crowded....hard to find a spot to fish. Had a few hookups on a black Zebra Midge, size 20, but none landed. I can't stress to much how crowded it was! Decided to go back to the river.

Saturday August 9 3:30-7:00pm Baptist

Several people at access and several fisherman that I passed on my walk downstream. Caught 5 in the fast water just below Baptist (2 rainbow and 3 10" brown) on a size 14 chartruse copper John, and two on a size 22 black zebra midge. Walked to the same spot as the day before with few bites and none landed. Was kinda neat to see the fog role in from upstream to downstream as I walked back toward Baptist.

Beautiful weather! Beautiful river! Good time!

[Kyle]

I was in the park on Friday and Saturday. The trico hatch on Saturday morning was unreal. Little white mayflies (maybe size 28-30) with green butts. BKB was right, there were a lot of people because of the kids fishing derby but you could find spots to be all to yourself. On Sat. morning it was just me and my buddy in the bolder hole. I caught quite a few fish out of there including one that went almost 2 pounds. Most fish came on scuds (olive or grey) and a few on midges (various colors with rusty being the most productive.) Also managed to catch a few on dry flies, 3-4 on a small white one and 2 on a hopper pattern. Caught my first fish out of the Catch and Release area on Friday on a copper John which went about 2-1/2 pounds.

What a beautiful weekend to be on the river fishing reguardless of the crowd.

By the way we got the last non reserved camping spot on friday at about 2.

Kyle