After three years of surgeries and high water that kept me off the water
more than on the water, I am having a good season. The White has been
wadable since April. I have not been to Crooked Creek since before the
Sowbug in March. With all the high water this past winter, the catching
was down, the fish got to do a lot of growing. Most trout have all been
in the larger category. I have C&R a number of trout in the 17 to 20"
size. Hope it keeps up this way.
Sowbug dates are March 16, 17 18. Hope Misa will be able to come with
you next year.
Tony
mark romero wrote:
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
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