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[mizzouflyfisher]

Got down to Montauk yesterday (3/28), and had most of the stream to myself. Midweek is so nice. The water was up quite a bit and fairly colored. Made sight fishing slightly more difficult. Caught several fish on sz. 18 wd-40 and others on a sz. 18 beadhead midge in various colors. There were also some nice caddis coming off along with a smaller mayfly. I fished a sz 16 elk hair caddis with a size 18 adams trailed behind. Both worked. Ended up catching around 40, biggest was a 21" brown. All in all a great day on the water, not it's time to go get the bass gear out for this weekend.

Mizzouflyfisher

[Don]

Nice to hear you got a brownie. I hear folks say they caught a brownie out of Roaring River many times I'm there. I've fished state parks Roaring River and Bennett quite a few times since 1976 and never have seen a brown landed.

[mcp633]

I fish Montauk quite a bit and have only caught one brown. It was about 12" and was right down by the wire. I figure it was an escapee from downstream.

Kyle

[Kansas Fly Fisher]

I caught a 4 1/2 pound brown at Bennett last year site fishing a white jig.

[10pointer]

mizzou

did you catch that brown in the park, or in the blue ribbon area, did you keep or release it?

Ive caught quite a few big browns outside the park and never kept any, including one of them monsters that hangs out (or used to last year) just below the wire. Ive caught a few browns in the park but none over a pound or two.

im heading down this saturday then, friday thru sunday next weekend. I just tied up a bunch of stuff last night so im excited!

[mizzouflyfisher]

Just saw your question 10pointer. I caught the brown in the park, up in the catch and release area. I caught three browns that day, 2 were on back to back casts, the 21" and an 18". I also saw one that would have probably gone 23/24. It blew up on a zonker, literally slashed at the surface as soon as the zonker hit the water. Montauk has a higher number of browns than Bennet, but I have caught a couple dozen at Bennett over the years. Both parks are stocking larger numbers of browns. Also, the only place I've kept a trout over the past 5 years is taneycomo. It's a pain in the butt dragging trout around and the girlfriend hates fish. I'm hoping the girlfriend might want to go down there tomorrow. If not, I may have to ditch her.

Mizzouflyfisher