RE: [VFB] Fishing report

[mark romero]

Thankx Tony, for the cool report. Ron G. has been keeping me abreast of 
what's goin' on down your way with the Northfork. He's had some good days 
himself. Lookin' forward to the Sowbug again already....... mark

From: Tony Spezio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: [VFB] Fishing report
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 20:43:14 -0500
Took the day off making rods and headed for the river. Mike and I ere going 
to float Crooked Creek for smallmouths and gills. It has been hot and the 
creek is real low. we decided to pass it up with 90 degrees forecast for 
today.
Mike came  over this morning about 7:30, we were going to head up to Tucker 
for a few hours. The river was heavy with fog so we would have to wait for 
the fog to lift in order to take the boat out. Instead of waiting for the 
fog to lift Mike suggested going up to the trophy area at the dam. We got 
there in about 20 minuets and suited up. The fog had started to lift and we 
waded out at the launch ramp. I made one cast to a rise, then made the 
second cast to the same rise and hooked up. I knew I had a good fish on. I 
made several attempts to net it  but it just would not fit in the C&R net. 
I finally netted the Rainbow, It was U shape in the net with about 5 " of 
the tail above the net rim.
The net measures 17" across the top. That trout was like a football. It 
took Al's fly in a sz 14. A few more casts got me a Cutt of about 14". 
Worked my way down river a hundred feet or so and got into a bunch of trout 
just laying there. By this time the sun was out and the water here is clear 
as gin. The fish are real spooky as the water is shallow. There were some 
real large trout in that shallow pool. It tool some long casts but I did 
manage to get three bows from that pool before I spooked them. Mike came up 
along the bank and fished the pool below me. He hooked up and when he 
landed the trout I heard him yell out" will you look at this", he had a 
Brookie.
That was the first Brookie he had ever caught in all his years of trout 
fishing. We worked a couple more pools and were catching trout on a regular 
basis. As the morning wore on, more fishermen started to show up. There 
were only two others when we started. The funny thing was, Mike and I were 
about the only ones catching fish.
The warning horn sounded at the dam, that means they will be releasing 
water in 10 minuets. We headed close to the bank and waited for the surge. 
It never came so we headed across to a run on the other side.
At the end of the run, there was a feeding frenzy. They would not take Al's 
fly, the pepper ot anything else till Mike put on a zs 14 yellow soft 
hackle. I did not have one so Mike offered me one. By the time I changed to 
the soft hackle, the feeding frenzy had slowed down. I did manage to get a 
few trout and several long line releases. I finally broke off and went back 
to Al's fly. Hooked up s few more times till a guy came wading right into 
the run , stands there tying on a fly. This took him a full 15 minuets. T 
politely told him he san standing right on top of the fish. He just ignored 
me. Hr finally got a fly tied on, made three casts and wandered off. This 
put the fish down. we did notice the water had come up a bit and decided 
the bit of a surge is what set the trout in a feeding frenzy. Along came 
another friend of ours that is a Trophy Trout Guide with a client. A big 
brown was in that run and Duane was trying to get the client to cast the 
fly where the brown was laying. Mike had tried for it but the brown never 
even looked at this fly. The client could not cast to save his life so 
Duane cast the fly but before he could hand the rod to the client, the 
brown was on. The fly was a sz 22 midge. The client was so shuck up that he 
refused the rod so Daune took it on himself to land it. It tool a while and 
the landing net was too small. Finally the client managed to get the fish 
in the net.
After being sure that brown was ready to be released it swam off. It was a 
good 24" brown. We decided to call it a day., my back was talking to me. 
Got home about 1:30,.
It was a great day on the river good friends and good catching. What was 
the best, all trout were better than 14" with several that were in the 20+" 
range.
Mike was trying for a Grand Slam since he had caught a Brookie, did not get 
a brown to do it
Tony