Montauk Bound Mar 12-22

[hfdhoosier]

The wife and I are headed down to do some trout fishing till the 22nd. We are staying at Eagles Park in a tent in slot 5. Anyone else going to Montauk? Stop by and say Hi if any of you get a chance.

[hfdhoosier]

A beautiful tan vat brown

[hfdhoosier]

Sorry for the late report, first time I have had a chance to sit down at the computer since I got back. Fishing was good the whole ten days we were at Montauk. I fished 4 days in the park and 5 days at Tan Vat. The park was great at the spring and around the bend- picked up fish on white thread jig and 18-22 zebra midges. I had the most luck on red zebra midge with a gunmetal bead and black wire rib. From there down to the rapids before the stretch with the bluff, the water was slower and fewer takes. The stretch with the bluff was productive with dry cracklebacks size 14 and the red zebra midge again. My wife had success in this stretch on a mccheese globall and other shades of orange globalls. The shallow run from there down to the big rock was loaded with fish wanting the zebra midge and globalls. Caught a bunch of fish at the big rock on globalls. The fish were mainly stocker size but the bite was frequent enough to keep us busy landing fish.

At Tan Vat the zebra midge, globalls of all colors were the ticket. Caught lots of 16+ inch fish including 3 browns. The last day I caught some nice browns on an olive wooly bugger stripping it and letting it swing with the current. Fish were aggressive with any fly that was moving, I even swung and stripped a 16 size dry elk hair caddis and they attacked it, not many takers on the caddis dry but as soon as it would swing and submerge they attacked it.

Great weather and some good fishing made this trip very enjoyable.

[hfdhoosier]

Some pics of our trip