Opening Day Week...

[hookinear]

Just got back from montauk, and boy was it cold. The fishing was hit and miss Monday and parts of tuesday, but all in all it was a pretty good time.

Opening day we started in the White Oak hole because my buddy had caught a lunker there last year and was hoping to have the same luck this year. Well, there were plenty of lunkers in the hole, but none found our lines. Started with Multi-colored and Gold tinsel jigs and they would just kill once it got into the lower half of the water column. Decided to head up to the springs and try our luck out there. Had a beadhead brown prince nymph on top and a chamois worm on the bottom. I wish i would have brought more of the chamois worms bc they tore the two that i brought with me to pieces. Now these are chamois worms that i had brought back from Anglers and Archery. The lodge and Reeds cabins had worms that were somewhat close to the same but were all white instead of yellow like AAs. And it sure did make a difference. The trout wanted nothing to do with the white ones. So i just tied on two prince nymphs and do ok, but nothing like the worms.

Monday was really slow and the fishing seemed to go in spurts. They wouldnt hit anything for an hr then all of a sudden BAM! Anything and eveything you threw in would get slurpped. It went like that for most of the day and for tuesday. The BH prince nymph seemed to be the go to fly. Did have a little luck throw a parachute adams and stripping an olive soft hackle in the seams behind the rocks.

All in all it was a good weekend, and i cant wait to get back there when the weather finally warms up a bit. Never a bad day at Montauk.

Hookinear

[flyfishmaster]

Great Report. We hope to see more of these from you in the future as well.

BTW: whereabout in SoIL are you?

Later,

FFM

[hookinear]

I am from Red Bud. Sure you know where that is seeing as you are from Waterloo

[Kayser]

Hey, more SoIL members! Well, I don't know if I classify anymore seeing as I'm in school in Rolla, but it still counts as home. Heading down to Montauk on Saturday, think I should even bother with the park, or just stick to the trophy water?

Rob

[Ill Trout Bum]

I would recommend the trophy area. If the current weather forecast holds true, the park will be a zoo. We were there last Friday and fished Tan Vat to the park boundary on Saturday. Despite the snowstorm, the fish were very cooperative. I had the most success stripping an olive mohair leech.

Good luck if you decide to go.

[DoveTail]

Sounds like a great time. I like it when the fish hit anything you throw at them! Unlike the summer when they get really picky. Montauk always produces some great fish.

[Ill Trout Bum]

Here's a couple of photos from our opening day excursion to Montauk. Despite the cold temps, the fish were more than willing. My buddy caught his first ever lunker ever at the bottom of the Blue Hole first thing Sunday morning.

I caught mine Sunday evening at the Rock Hole at the end of the chute.

Come what may weatherwise, opening day is always a special occasion that we have come to treasure!

By the way, I fished Saturday from Tan Vat up to the park during the snowstorm. I saw several other anglers wrking their way down from the park, mostly spin fishing. I had the most success stripping an olive mohair leech.

Scott

[DoveTail]

Those are some great looking fish! Brrr, the snow makes it look that much colder.