Fish, Critters, Blow Down

[Nortrad]

Fished on Thursday, 5/21 most of day and to 8:30PM with breaks. Tough to good fishing, depending on where I was at. A mistake I now realize I made was not fishing below Tan Vat, from FFM's report. (Taking a break from the heat I watched an older fellow drift a big indicator through the TV hole with a big streamer. He nailed a nice brown.) Caught a decent 14" brown in the boulders above TV. Caught some decent browns and 'bows below Baptist. Early in the evening tried some new streamers way below Baptist. Turned a couple of big guys but couldn't seem to fool them. Miss-hooked a couple of decent ones.

Friday AM was tough for me, warm and sunny and didn't pick a good place to fish. Here's some pics of a groundhog I walked up to above Tan Vat on Thursday, also of the blow down from the wind storm (there were two other trees downed above this one.), and one of the browns I caught. Used a lot of different flies: PT's, rubber legs of my design mostly. Fished double nymphs a few times with a SWJ or smaller nymph with the rubber legs. The fish would always hit the big fly.

Fishing is tough fun. Going again after June 4.

Nortrad

[flyfishmaster]

Nortrad,

That entire area looks like a war zone with all the down trees plus the roads are in badshape as well.

later,

FFM

[ozark trout fisher]

Fished on Thursday, 5/21 most of day and to 8:30PM with breaks. Tough to good fishing, depending on where I was at. A mistake I now realize I made was not fishing below Tan Vat, from FFM's report. (Taking a break from the heat I watched an older fellow drift a big indicator through the TV hole with a big streamer. He nailed a nice brown.) Caught a decent 14" brown in the boulders above TV. Caught some decent browns and 'bows below Baptist. Early in the evening tried some new streamers way below Baptist. Turned a couple of big guys but couldn't seem to fool them. Miss-hooked a couple of decent ones.

Friday AM was tough for me, warm and sunny and didn't pick a good place to fish. Here's some pics of a groundhog I walked up to above Tan Vat on Thursday, also of the blow down from the wind storm (there were two other trees downed above this one.), and one of the browns I caught. Used a lot of different flies: PT's, rubber legs of my design mostly. Fished double nymphs a few times with a SWJ or smaller nymph with the rubber legs. The fish would always hit the big fly.

Fishing is tough fun. Going again after June 4.

Nortrad

I'm headed down to Montauk on June 6, 7. Looks like there is a possibility the tournament I was going to fish could get canceled because of lack of participation, so I might hit the Blue Ribbon Area. I haven't caught a brown trout in forever and a day.

[Nortrad]

I would have put more fish pics up but my camera malfunctioned or the operator did--turned it on to photo a fish and the battery plopped into the river! I put it in my shirt and it dried off quick, but I tried to snap a fish and it just repeated the same pic over and over. I tried it later and it was fine.

You are right FFM, there are a lot of evergreens blown down on the way into Montauk.

There's lotsa browns throughout, OTF, some of them are gettin' chunky. I was happy to catch two particular 'bows on Thursday, one way below Baptist where I'd never caught one, only browns, and another juvenile wild trout, with the big spots behind the small ones. He was very healthy for about 9-10".

It's a great stream. It's big-time brushy if you crash through to trails though. I had to patch pinholes yesterday. There were water snakes too, but those don't bother me.

Nortrad