Opening Day On The Nfow

[Justin Spencer]

After watching the river flow by while doing a little cleanup at the riverhouse, I decided to put on my waders and explore some water I really had not fished much. I started with a brown Zonker, and since I had forgotten my sunglasses the glare made it too hard to see this fly. I stumbled across a little run that I truthfully didn't even know existed (pretty sad as it is along my own property). It is tough to get to by shore but turned out to be well worth the effort. A few fish were rising to midges, and naturally I had nothing even close. I put on my old standby stone imitation and picked up two 13" browns on back to back casts. I then found I could go above the run and wade around to the other side where I had seen numerous rises. Over there I picked up a small bow on the same fly and then switched to a white scud. I caught several more small bows on it and lost several others. While I didn't have the social aspect of opening day at a trout park, it was nice that the only shoulder to shoulder were my two skinny ones next to each other. Also refreshing to find a new place to fish, it always amazes me how many places there are that hold fish, all you have to do is explore and be willing to try something new.

[Chris Gates]

Nice!! And just think, you missed out fishing White Oak Hole at Montauk and the Whistle Bridge at Bennett. Man your nuts if you want to fish a river by yourself, you could have been at the park with 2,000 other anglers!