Little Red Report 7-12-07

[RiverRunner]

Made another trip to the Little Red on Sunday. We managed to get the canoe that we bought from Duckydoty back in the winter into the water for the first time for us. We floated from JFK park to Swinging Bridge in an effort to see some new water. Managed to catch a decent 16" brown near Beech Island early, but it was slow going after that. We managed to catch some fish here and there when we could find some active fish midging. Caught all fish using a soft hackle with a zebra midge dropper. I figure we ended up with about 12 between us, which is slow for us on this river. We were not impressed with this stretch, way to much slow flat water and not enough shoals and faster water. With the 100 degree weather, it was a hot, long trip down the river. I did see a bona-fide 30" brown though. September and cooler weather cannot get here soon enough! We were very happy with the performance of the canoe.