BSC quick trip

[mreed81]

My friend in Sullivan had some people back out on helping him move this afternoon so he asked for my help. If I have to go that far West then you know a short morning trip to the Blue Ribbon stream is in order! I gave myself between 3 and 4 hours to hit the water before I helped my friend.

Within 5 minutes of hitting the stream I noticed a very large trout in a pretty big pool. I threw everything I could at him including midges, two different nymphs, and a wooly bugger and it acted as if it didn't even notice them. I then moved up stream and started to tie a midge on and heard a lot of fish jumping at a small hole I was about to hit. There was a decent sized hatch of some very, very small white colored flies. If anyone knows what they were, please let me know. Changed my approach and tied a 14 parachute adams, no luck. Then a 14 caddis, still no luck. I then went with the smallest white colored dry fly either 18 or 20 (don't know pattern) I could find to get as close to what was hatching. For the next two hours the hatch remained thick and I caught a lot of small Trout with this pattern, largest being 8" that put up a great fight. This was especially fun for me because dry fly fishing is what got me interested in fly fishing in the first place, and I have not had the opportunity since I started in the fall to try the top water approach successfully.

When I was finished and got back to the car I had a little time to kill and didn't like the taste of being skunked by the large fish I saw earlier. I assembled the spinning rod, tied a small crank bait to the line and went back to the first pool. Within two casts he took it and boy what a fight he put up! Probably the largest fish I have caught at this particular creek. Overall great day, wish I would have had time to fish more but between the first time dry fly action and the big one it felt like a full day of results.

I also found a "fishing tool" by the red gate. If you are missing something from your last trip pm me, and if what you are missing is what I found I will mail it to you.

 

 

[jackdizo]

WOW! great fish. Wonder if he would have taken a larger streamer? Either way great catch and beautiful fish. Thanks for the report! Cheers.

[mreed81]

  On 2/8/2016 at 10:38 PM, jackdizo said:

WOW! great fish. Wonder if he would have taken a larger streamer? Either way great catch and beautiful fish. Thanks for the report! Cheers.

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I'm pretty sure he would have went after a large streamer. The only reason a streamer wasn't mentioned is because my fly box does not have any streamers! All in due time. lol