Montauk Blue Ribbon Area

[Idylwilde]

Yesterday I spent about 3 hours fishing the blue ribbon area below Montauk. I had not fished this area for a while because of the low water levels. But it’s in great shape and after fishing it I found they are some fair sized brown trout still alive and well.

I found three good sized brown lying behind some shallow weed beds in about 15" of water. The water has some color to it and is at a great flow. These browns were hitting scuds being washed off the grass and feeding fast from one area to the next. I was using 6X tippet with a 1/100oz Y2K in Char/and white. I was not able to hook up with any of the shallow browns. But moving down river I fished some deep fast water at about 4'deep. I caught 9 small rainbows and 3 brown trout. One brown about 19" and one at 17" and one at 14". All on the Y2K drifted from head of riffle to tail. Most came from the belly of the hole. They all hit HARD and fast. No pecking and sipping they hit and ran.

Please if you fish this area keep what you want to eat of the rainbows but release the brown trout back to grow and fight again. The weather was coludy with some rain in the upper 40's.

[ColdWaterFshr]

NICE report!!

[jah]

Beautiful fish....