What are you fishing this week?
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Re: What are you fishing this week?
#662Great day for social distancing and not in the office. “Sorry I missed your call, I was on my other line”
Riverwatch 11 ft 5-6w with 3 3/4 1912 perfect with line guard. Rasta Dee and purple Mahoney working well on dropping river.
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Riverwatch 11 ft 5-6w with 3 3/4 1912 perfect with line guard. Rasta Dee and purple Mahoney working well on dropping river.
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Re: What are you fishing this week?
#664Fished a Catskill freestone today with the Scott 7'10" 5at by Bernard R. This is my second day out with it and it couldnt have gone better. About 60, partly sunny, water was average. Bug soup, but I one-bugged it with a Hendrickson pattern. Got about 8 up top, with some very nice bows in the mix. Towards the end there were a ton of hendricksons on the water.
After about 3 hours of lights out fishing a father/son duo came in and I gave them the water. They promptly behaved weirdly and killed a nice fish. No good deed goes unpunished, i guess.
After about 3 hours of lights out fishing a father/son duo came in and I gave them the water. They promptly behaved weirdly and killed a nice fish. No good deed goes unpunished, i guess.
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Re: What are you fishing this week?
#665I imagine that that pike must have been fun on the fly!
I took the tip and mid and "tourist" handle of my 7'9" Sweetgrass Mantra out to a favorite small creek and broke in my "new" rod today. Here are just a couple that are typical of this stream although there are bigger fish perhaps pushing 12 or 13"
I took the tip and mid and "tourist" handle of my 7'9" Sweetgrass Mantra out to a favorite small creek and broke in my "new" rod today. Here are just a couple that are typical of this stream although there are bigger fish perhaps pushing 12 or 13"
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Re: What are you fishing this week?
#667Went back out with the Scott/Bernard R. rod, hit the upper Neversink looking for heads. Slow start, but by 2 there were a good amount of Hendricksons on the water. Most of the fish didnt seem to care, I would walk about 100 yards or more and find one or two fish rising. I worked 2 fish, got an 18"er on a Hendrickson. I was surprised because I saw him rising from pretty far away, didnt think it would be a good fish with those splashy rises.
The rod is just beautiful. There was some wind, but it handled it nicely and some of the casts I was making were long and it picked up the line off the water well enough for the conditions.
The real highlight was seeing an Osprey (far from home) carrying off a fish. As it called out 2 eagles swooped into the scene. The osprey dropped the fish from about 100 feet and the eagles circled for a bit looking for it.
The rod is just beautiful. There was some wind, but it handled it nicely and some of the casts I was making were long and it picked up the line off the water well enough for the conditions.
The real highlight was seeing an Osprey (far from home) carrying off a fish. As it called out 2 eagles swooped into the scene. The osprey dropped the fish from about 100 feet and the eagles circled for a bit looking for it.
Re: What are you fishing this week?
#669First fushing day after 45 days since the last one , never ever happened before. No uuuge fish , just small and smaller. Mineral bath was optional.
Wise indeed was George Selwyn Marryat when he said: "its not the fly; its the driver"
page 193,
GEM Skues,The Way Of A Trout With A Fly
page 193,
GEM Skues,The Way Of A Trout With A Fly
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Re: What are you fishing this week?
#672Thanks, Jeremy! I'm actually not getting out as much as usual...rivers are open but access is tricky.
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Re: What are you fishing this week?
#675Back out with my Sweetgrass 7'3" penta 4wt. I went to a tumbling brook stream that cuts through a small mountain. Was hoping for heads, but when I got there I could hear the river before I saw it. Still had a lot of water from last week. So I made due and nymphed when i found some ideal runs, and the fish responded well! Theres a popular hiking trail near it and at one point I had a bunch of people watching me successfully catch. Once I started to feel like a genius the fishing gods spoke and gave me a pretty big brown who promptly got off and bounced my setup into entree. No one stuck around to watch me deal with that, haha.
I've been raving about this rod for a bit now, but seriously what a treat it was to go there for one plan and then fish it totally differently than I intended with no problems at all. Probably the rod I'd grab in a hypothetical fire situation where I can only choose one.
I've been raving about this rod for a bit now, but seriously what a treat it was to go there for one plan and then fish it totally differently than I intended with no problems at all. Probably the rod I'd grab in a hypothetical fire situation where I can only choose one.
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Re: What are you fishing this week?
#677Lancaster 6'3" 2/2 Baetis 4 wt with ventilated cigar, dual band. Hardy Featherweight Reel with Dt-4, thread woven leader, 5x and little yellow stone dries on 3 small streams in headwaters. Lower rivers and tailwaters are a runnin' high!
Re: What are you fishing this week?
#679Fished a Wayne Maca Beaverhead rods 230cm 4,5,6wt with a 3 1/4 Dingley perfect. Flooding right now so I hit some local bluegill/sunfish ponds with the kids. My kids tallied up over 100 panfish each on caddis dry flies and were constantly hooked up and having a blast.
These ponds also have large mouth bass stocked so that is always my focus when I visit. The big weighted flies turned up nothing; leaches, jig flies, streamers, same for poppers etc. But with a very long cast 100'+ and an unweighted wet fly, stripped fast I turned up a bunch of little bass along the weed beds. Great casting practice with double hauling and shooting line and a blast to catch little bass along with a few "trophy" sunfish.
These ponds also have large mouth bass stocked so that is always my focus when I visit. The big weighted flies turned up nothing; leaches, jig flies, streamers, same for poppers etc. But with a very long cast 100'+ and an unweighted wet fly, stripped fast I turned up a bunch of little bass along the weed beds. Great casting practice with double hauling and shooting line and a blast to catch little bass along with a few "trophy" sunfish.
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it. T.R.