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[grizzly]

Went down to Tan Vat this weekend for only the second time in my life. I only waded, which limited my fishing opportunities, but I still had a good Saturday. 7 fish to hand and 2 fish that snapped 5x tippet along with a few hit and misses. Best was 17', and I caught a bunch of beautifully colored bows, no browns though. The water was up and stained, which for me is always difficult because I seem to have a hard time finding the right pattern and depth combination. Nevertheless, I figured out a good pattern later in the afternoon. My effective flies were a red copper john and a soft hackle pheasant tail.

I did see something unusual. I have seen trout park go after an indicator, and it always seemed to be the smaller, newly stocked fish. But I had two rainbows, both 16-18', rise after my indicator. I didn't see any hatches that would "match" a yellow thingamabobber but this shocked me in that I was fishing in the blue ribbon section. Maybe escaped inmates from the Montauk penitentiary? Or maybe we need to start a new craze in the fly fishing world.

These were the hatches I saw this weekend, and no, I don't speak latin. Small tan caddis, sizes 18-20(and I did get a few on sunday before the storm on small caddis dry flies), Midges, larger caddis(14-`16) with brown wings, and some smaller mayflies. I saw a ton of midges, but the trout paid very little attention to them. The paid even less attention to the zebra midges and 30 second midges I fished.

That's all I have. Hope it helps somewhat.

[go4ducks2]

Thanks for posting......have been doing honey do's for the last 3 weeks and folks posting on here is about the only thing that keeps me sane!

Glad you had a good trip.

[Nortrad]

Here you go, want to try this. Have had rainbows chomp a mid-size Thingamabobber... in chartreuse, yellow, pink, yellow, white...pic lighting was poor.