Re: [VFB] Fishing report

[mark romero]

Thankx for the report Tony. Very glad your able to get in some quality 
fishing.....course you seem to be able to make any time, quality time. I 
sure do hope Misa can make it down with me next year. I'd like to try out 
Crocked Creek sometime. Denny says he likes it a lot. OOPPSS, just 
remembered, i need to email him. later, mark

From: Tony Spezio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: [VFB] Fishing report
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 06:15:07 -0500
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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