Pete, from one grandpaw to another, I'm glad you were able to get out and catch a few. Sounds like the browns were awfully hungry, taking a big fly like that. I'd be interested in the patterns of the flies you used. They'll surely come in handy when I fish the Cimarron in NM in mid-April.

Thanks,

JIMMY D

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Hi everyone,
 Went our for the first time since christmas -- was SO nice to get that line wet again!  Light dusting of snow on 
the ground, but the water temps were upper 50's.  C&R'd two browns (lil' stocked things, like 11 or 12" 
each), a bunch of chubs, and a few small sunnies.  The Hendrickson nymphs were a'plenty, as were the blue-quill 
nymphs.  OH!  This was on some backwater around the poconos/ where I80 meets up with the PA NE Extension of the 
Turnpike.  In any case, both browns were taken on my "realistic modified hares-ear hendrickson" fly.  
I'll send a recipe off list if you wish, but it's very much the stereotypical "scud".  Nymphs I found 
were HUGE (hook size 14 up to 10!).  One brown caught on size 12, the other on size 14.  Chubs were caught on a 
stonefly nymph pattern, also fairly realistic, also huge (nymph size 8) and the sunnies on a standard flashback 
hare's ear nymph(may have been blue-gills, just released them fairly quickly, to be honest... was fishing for 
browns).  All recipes and such send off list upon request, but I have over 200 e-mails I'm trying to battle 
through, so give me a day or two to respond.
Take care, all,
Pete

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