Round 2 at Montauk

[Foghorn]

Older brother had been camping at Montauk from 06/16-06/23 and had called home and said they had pretty good fishing in the fly zone. I had told him about the browns moving into the park but he had stayed where he saw the most fish. Okay, Susie and I made the 2 hour drive Monday and had a great day. Starting in the campground below the bridge, we started seeing nice browns. I picked off an 18" chunky female within the first 15" and lost another male that was a shade longer. As I worked my way downstream, I found a bigger brown in the 4# range in a stretch of water that wasn't 2 foot deep. He wasn't buying what I was selling so I moved down to catch up with Susie. She had caught a brown similar to what I had caught and was having a discussion with a couple who couldn't understand why she let it go. We fished to the handicap area and got out of the water to go to the 300 campground area. Saw 5-6 browns in the 2.5-5.5# range but no takers the first round. I didn't want to go further down even though we got into some good browns on our last trip. We decided to circle back upstream and make one more pass thru this section. Almost immediately, Susie had another 18" brown on and released it. I had put on the old trusty red fox squirrel nymph and got a couple good drifts on the biggest fish we had seen. She took it and I set the hook like the proverbial 800# gorilla and she was gone. Within 15", another brown in the 4-4.5# range moved into the whole and the RFSN did the trick. I let it go as a youngster who witnessed the fight couldn't understand why I wasn't going to the lodge to weigh it and get a patch. Told him it would be there tomorrow for him to try and catch. Older brother's campsite wasn't 50 yards from where we had fished for those browns. No pictures as I was wet wading with the hot weather.