Twin Bridges to Hammonds

[Brian Wise]

Hey Morgan,

The trip with the 417 writers and photographer was awesome. They were 3 women that had pretty much never touched a fly rod, by the end of the day they were doing really well....and it was a half-day trip! Women are so easy to teach though.

A Gitzit is pretty much a tube, no real difference between them and your regular tubes. You can use soft plastics above the Spring so on your float (Twin Bridges to Hammond) you will be totally good to go with soft plastics. As far as water I would concentrate on, the water that looks good up there is pretty much the water I would hit hard. I know that is a little vague but it can be pretty skinny up there and you just have to see it to know what I'm talking about, just hit anything that looks fishy and you should have a good time.

Those small craw cranks are my favorite sub-surface lure for smallies, there is no doubt when they take one of them

Brownieman,

I know a lot of people that run limb lines on the Bryant. We don't hear about near as many really big cats being caught on them as we used though.

[Morgan F.]

Happy Monday,

Survived the North Fork trip this last weekend...and so did the fish!

This trip ended up morphing into about everything other than what I had planned.

Ended up floating Hammonds to Blair. We were told that the water was running low on upper parts and one of our party recenctly had hip surgery so was not able to get in/out of canoe and dragging would have been out of the question for his wife!

The float was great. A little slow in 1st half (Hammonds to McKee Bridge) but picked up after that.

I was so excited to get back on a stream that I never, in my head at least, thought about anyone else being on the water...I was WRONG! The river was crowded for my fishing taste so I put the rod down and went more of the kayaking/river exploring route...had a good time...a very nice river! Talked to two guys drift fishing and a couple of spinners and they all had mild luck with the river traffic. Mostly small smallmouth and goggle eye. Never saw a trout on the end of anyones line, though I was giving wide berths to any fisherman I spotted.

Won't mention the canoe outfitter that my group went through, but it was not a pleasant experience. After floating past the River of Life strech...I will definately be giving them a call next time!

Thank you all for your pointers...I will try and actually put them to use in the near future!

Morgan F.