I Need Some Help

[3wt]

#10 or 8 olve mohair leech.

You will indeed love Montauk. If you can plan to hit it off-peak you will like it even more (avoid thursday-sunday in the summer). If it was less popular and not a park, the fly-fishing only stretch of the river would likely be the hands-down best trout stream in the state.

Don't bother with a guide until you want to head out of the park.

The best way to find fish on the current in my opinion is to fish the mohair leech deep where the water has deeper strecthes and faster water. It's easy to walk past the fish on the river, but after searching this way, you get the feel of where fish hide, then you can try some other techniques...and be as quiet as you can, they see you coming a mile away.

I haven't fished the little piney in years, but remember liking it.

The upper meremac around cardiac hill is nice, but can be real hit or miss.

Other than that Bennett springs is kind of blah in my opinion. If you want to get that far it's worth some time, but I'd just assume spend more time at Montauk.

[ModernTroutCowboy]

That is the only fly I have not tyed yet. I will have to make some for next week.

I am looking at going April 23-26 just camping out and enjoying (hopefully) a nice weekend.

I tyed some crawfish the last couple of days any luck with this pattern out there? I am going to bring a lot of different flies to see what works out the best. I am defenatlly trying everything that was suggested first.

Looks like I am going to try out Little piney also.

[Gavin]

There arent many crawfish in the blue ribbon area on the Current, though they are more abundant downstream..Main forage for the larger brown trout- sculpins, stoneroller minnows, and bleeding shiners....there will be lots of caddis fluttering about this time of year, particuarly at dusk.....bring dries, emergers, pupa, and some soft hackles in the 12-18 range. Lt. Cahills are known to emerge at dusk this time of year, but you really have to be on the right spots at the right time to hit that hatch. Bushy attractor dries can work anytime as well. Good luck. Cheers.