T' n T'

[jdmidwest]

Blasted out early Thursday morning for a well needed get away from it all. Landed first at daylight near Belgrade and harvested a 22 lb. 11" bearded Tom from the National Forest near there, the first T. Nice bird, bumped him early on by driving too close, his strut marks were all over the forestry road I was on. I got out of the truck and he gobbled about 30 yds away behind a tree that had felled on the road in front of me then shut up. I knew he was there, it was just a matter of time. I had called for about 10-15 minutes then snoozed for a while, he woke me up walking in over the hill. I got his attention with a few clucks, and he just decided to catch a load of shot in the head. The new Winchester Super X2 did its job.

Then off to Montauk for an overnight camp and a little of the other T. The gods were with me on this one. The river was running good and a little murky and the fishing was good. The park was good fishing with a beaded prince nymph. This morning the hatch was on and the mayflies were so thick that I tasted and smelled them all morning. They were keying in on the smaller spinners as usual, size 18 olive cdc spinner did the trick. Fished Baptist and below and nailed several nice ones with a 21" brown on a wooley being the beat of the day. Back to the house tonight for a weekend of yard chores.