[VFB] Stoned afternoon fishing

[DMurphy832]

Well, I really meant an afternoon of fishing with stonefly nymphs.  Fished #8 Dark Brown Stonefly Nymphs after tring EVERYTHING else in the box and what a hot fly today.  You know how fish just nail the dog dirt out of a hot dry?  Well imagine large bows bolting out from 5' deep under logs to hit a nymph fished deadrift with no weight.  It just worked over and over again until I changed to a wet with little action afterwards.  I wanted to save that fly to take home and tie more tonight.   I fished the stonefly nymph at the top with an intermediate CJ and a wet dropper until it became obvious they just wanted the stonefly.  The first two fish were 21" and 17" respectively and many in between them and the last.  I switched back to wets when my last bow was a 4"er.  Yes, I'm a confirmed nymphofishamaniac after the pounding that fly got.  Didn't ever lose it as I was using 4lb (comes out to 4x) flourocarbon leader from Wally World.   The stream?  Just a little headwater about 10' across with deep pools, a beaver dam, riffles and close to my home in MD.  Not Morgan Run either since that stream gets pounded these days.  Now I didn't turn many rocks over with stonefly nymphs under them but quite a few hellgramites about 2" on average.  Maybe this was what they were keying on.   Smell my hands.  They STILL smell like fish since I caught so many in just a few hours.  Okay, back to my hole ...to tie more flys.   Murf