The Weather Was Better Than The Fishing

[Justin Spencer]

I guess I shouldn't complain, finally blessed with a beautiful day, but why can't the fish cooperate when the weather does. Fished out in front of the house for about an hour today. Fishing was slow, I caught one small brown on a golden stone. Creepy caught one small rainbow on a olive and brown rubberlegs. We then took the drift boat to Blair for another short jont back to the campground. We threw everything but the kitchen sink at them saw a few rising to a modest blue wing olive hatch, but couldn't get a take on anything. Quit nymphing and dry flying and went back to the streamer. We took turns fishing and after a million casts finally got a take but missed, the next fish flashed out from behind a big rock, stopped short and turned around, a quick twitch of the rod tip and it spun an inhaled the 3" Adam's spore (call T. Hargroves with questions about the fly, I don't know how to tie it). This fish gave the 10' 7 wt. I was using a good workout, and when all was said and done a nice 20" brown (yes I measured it) was my reward. Three hours of fishing by two guys with only 3 fish to show for it, a little slow but well worth the effort!

[jdmidwest]

But the weather was nice today and you were not at work. Looks like the best day for a while too.

[Justin Spencer]

I guess you could say I was at work since I work where I live, but I chose not to work, today I am afraid I will go back to tiling one of our cabins, if I start now might have time for some fishing this evening if it doesn't rain. I bet the cloud cover will turn the fishing around!

[Brian Sloss]

Hey Justin, give me a call if you want to get out on the water over here this weekend. Feel free to bring creepy if you want and we will get out in my boat for a few hours to go after some smallies.

[gotmuddy]

Hey Justin, give me a call if you want to get out on the water over here this weekend. Feel free to bring creepy if you want and we will get out in my boat for a few hours to go after some smallies.

how is the smallie fishing on the north fork? we floated it a few times last year(hammond to blair and blair to james) but I didnt do much fishing.

[Brian Sloss]

I'm sure the North Fork has its good smallmouth holes, but I was referring to the Eleven Point when I said to come over my way.

[Justin Spencer]

The North Fork has some good smallies in it, is it hit and miss. The upper North Fork is better (or so I've heard) than the trout areas, but where you find good holes in the trout area there are some good smallies. There are areas where they stack in the wintertime and you can usually catch a few. We had a guest catch a 19" a few years ago right in front of our riverhouse, it's probably 25" by now! Bryant Creek is better for smallies, we take people over there as well. It has longer deeper holes. The trout area of the north fork is a lot of runs and riffles with not too much deeper water. We had some fishermen the other day in the Blue ribbon area catch quite a few smallies, but they were in bunches, not in areas you would normally fish for trout.