Thought you were going to say you were sniffing Horseradish at the stream...8-) Jimi
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
