Thurs July 2 Report

[Greg]

My 2 sons and I did a float on the North Fork last Thurs July 2. Beautiful day and I really enjoyed the time with my 2 sons. I don't get to see my 21 year old as much as I'd like anymore so it was great to spend a whole day with him. The day would have been perfect except we got SKUNKED.

Now granted we played around as much as we fished but still we fished several hours and not a single trout. I got a lot of advice from some experienced people too (Brian Wise and Michael at BCO) so maybe it was just an off day. I did see quite a number of bows and one huge brown. Twice I was casting to a pretty good group of fish but I just couldn't get a take.

My younger son was in awe of the NFOW. He said it was the prettiest and cleanest river he had ever seen. We floated from Kelly's ford down to riverside canoe rental. We rented a canoe and a kayak. My older son and I took turns in the kayak. My first time in a kayak. I really enjoyed it. Totally different handling than a canoe.

Despite getting skunked we definitely want to make this a yearly or biannual event.

Greg

[Brian Wise]

Ouch. How deep were you fishing Greg? On average the river has been fishing well....it just takes long deeep drifts to get the job done.

Glad the boys liked it!

Brian

[Greg]

Brian I sure tried to fish deep. I varied the depth probably from 5 to 10 feet. Ryker and I were throwing prince flies, brown woolys, and stone flies. They were weighted and seemed like they were getting down to the bottom. I added some weight at times too. I definitely missed a couple of hits.

I fished for a while to a huge brown. He just sat there mid stream probably 10 or 15 feet from me. Couldn't get a take though.

Could have been the time of day too. We were mostly fishing in the middle of the day. We didn't hit the river until about 10:30 AM.