4.2.10

Where: Secret Little Stream in MD.

Date: 4.2.10

Conditions: high of 80. warm. Few clouds in the sky. Some humidity.

Water Conditons: Clear! Good Flows

Working Flies: #16 Quill Gordan, #16 Emerging BWO, #16 BWO Nymph, #16 Mr. Rapidan, #14 Pheasant Tail Emerger, #18 Flash Back Pheasant Tail, #16 Parachute Adams, #18 Prince Nymph, #18 Black Stonefly Dry

Days On The Water in 2010: 10

Report: Got on the water around 1:00. Started out with a #16 Quill Gordan assuming there would be a small hatch of quill gordans. Managed a really small brownie that was like 3” on the Quill Gordan. Switched to a #14 Pheasant Tail emerger. Landed one really nice brownie about 8” on it. Not to much more action while I was heading upstream so I added a dropper to the fly with a BWO Nymph. Managed a few brown trout on that. Had one nice brownie take the dropper but did not get a hookset. Lost my last PT Emerger so I tied on a #18 Black Stonefly Dry because I have seen several stoneflies that day on the banks and trees. Added the BWO Nymph on the Stonefly. Decided to go back downstream and saw a really nice riffle and lost a nice brookie as he was coming to hand. Lost the dropper so I tied on a #18 Flash Back Pheasant Tail and landed a small brookie. Went further downstream to near the bridge where the highway crosses the stream but nothing there. Fished my way back up to where I started and tied on a #16 Parachute adams and had a few rises for it and landed one of them. Got up to posted water and had to turn back so I fished a #16 Mr. Rapidan on my way back down and managed one rise on it.

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3.27.10

Where: Wilson Creek, VA—–Jackon River, VA

Date: 3.27.10

Conditions: Cold morning w/ frost. High of 57 during the day. Clear Skies. A few clouds.

Water Conditons: Clear. Jackson flowing at 600cfs through  Floated from X Location to X location

Working Flies: #18 BH Flashback Pheasant Tail, #18 BH Black Emerging Midge, #10 BH Gummy Stone, #2 Jointed Rainbow Trout Streamer, #18 BH Blue Copper John, #14 BH Prince Nymph

Days On The Water in 2010: 7

Report:

Wilson Creek- At around 8:30 arrived at Wilson creek for some brookie fishing. It was a cold morning with frost on the ground so everything was going slow. No visible hatch. Fished the seams from the native brookies. Had one brookie take the flash back pheasant tail. The brookie was about 7” so a decient brookie. Missed another brookie a little upstream 2 times. Fished the creek for about a half an hour before getting ready for a float trip.

Jackson River- Arrived at the river around 1:20ish. Rigged up and were in the water by 1:50ish. After 15min. Fished a tandem nymph rig with a #18 Emerging black midge and a #14 prince nymph and a yarn indicator. Nailed one nice brown trout near some submerged rocks around 8ft. A nice 15” wild brown that pulled the drag on the reel a few times. Really nice stuff to hear! A little while down the river I stuck another fish on some submerged wood but he got off! Switched to a Gummy stone a pattern developed by a local guide. Got 2 rainbow on it near the bank. One 8” and a 12”. Pulled out a 6wt. with a full sinking rio multi tip and a prototype jointed streamer! Moved many fish with the fly. Just few fish hit it. Many nice follows with strikes but not to many hookups. Saw two 20” chase it but no takes. Finally got a 16” from chucking it to the bank. Chucked it the rest of the day with more follows but no hookups.

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Gunpowder Again!!!!

Last Saturday i headed up to the gunpowder again!!! It is such a cool fishery i is a little hard to fish because they are wild fish and are very smart but they are some of the most colorful brown trout you have ever seen! They have lots of blue on them!!!!

Anyways… I arrived at about 2:00pm and checked out what way happening in the fly shop and at the river and bought some more fly tying materials(you can never have enough!)  I went to fish the Masemore Road section where there is a nice long flat that holds some nice fish but are UBER hard to catch because they have so long to look at your fly…. I only got one taker early in the day on a size 16 caddis on 6x…. no other takers though! I went downstream to practice my Czech nymping a new tactic i am learning that is used often in competition fishing and all the European powers use it! I was fishing a little deep pool that was running fairly well! and hooked into one fish that seemed a decent size but got off(they all do lol). So it was nearing 5pm and the sun was going behind the mountains so i went back to fish the flat right in front of the parking lot to see if i could get any fish to rise! I had a few rises to my size 16 caddis but could not get solid hook sets. Then it seemed they were rising to some midges (possibly tricos but i think a little late for them) i tied on 7x with a griffis gnat with no takes so i switch back to the caddis seeing a few in the air. I really needed to go so i decided what the heck and shot a 60 ft. cast upstream and sure enough i got a rise and a solid hookset! now i am dealing with an 8inch fish with like 60 ft. of line out. I was pretty much dragging the fish while trying to pick up the line fast. I got him in and he was full of fall colors. Wish i got a photo but i did not…  sorry……

 

Happy Veterans Day

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Funky Fish Photo

Starting a new series every friday we will have a funky fish photo!

Here you are

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Gunpowder River (pic heavy)

Well I decided to fish the gunpowder again! It was not looking to be a good day with a cold front coming through and then they released water and it went from 30 cfs to about 150 cfs. And there was rain in the forecast.  It turned out to be a great day a friend and myself totaled about 18-20 fish total in about 9 hours of fishing.  We started out the morning at about 9:30 and i was fishing a long riffle that was about 2 feet deep. I used all types of nymphs and streamers and could not get anything. Then i went downstream some to where the riffle opened into a pool that was pretty deep. There were several rocks in the pool that i knew there had to be trout stacked up on. I fished it with several nymphs but no takes so i tied on a green weenie and started getting hookups immediately. Got a few 8″ and a 10″After i caught a few from the pool they would not bite anymore so i moved on downstream with no luck. After lunch we went downstream some more and a fished a beautiful picture perfect pool with some streamers (slump busters, sculpins) with no luck so i tried some nymphs (caddis larva, caddis pupa, BH prince nymph, pheasant tail, etc.) with still no luck so i tried the green weenie with no luck. Figured some canoes spooked the fish in the pool. fished the riffles below it and hooked into 2 decent brown trout 8″ but both came off.  Fished some more riffles that people before us had fished with no luck. Came to a log jam

I switched to a slump buster streamer and fished through here and had one take from a nice brown trout about 12″ was my guess but no hookup. Switched to a sculpin with still no luck so I went downstream from the logjam and found this picture perfect run

I fished it with some nymphs with no luck!?!?!? but tied on the greenie weenie and got some really nice fish out of it. First drift through i was watching the leader and all the sudden it stops moving so i set the hook and pull this nice fish out

landed several other fish in here on the green weenie.

At about 4oclock we went to another location on the gunpowder. We got there at about 4:30 and managed a few rises but no takes to some sz. 18 green and brown elk hair caddis by 5:00 it started to rain and I switched to a sz. 18 parachute blue winged olive.  got this fish out of a small run with the bwo parachute

It started to rain more and more and the fish started to turn off so at about 6:30 we called it quits. It was a great day and i tried out the new rod and reel which are so sweet.

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Gunpowder River 8-15-09

A few days ago after seeing a concert and getting home at 11:30 pm i had to get ready to go fish the gunpowders trico hatch the next day. Getting up at 5:30 and heading off on our hour and a half drive to the Gunpowder River. Arriving at 7:45 ready to fish I just watched the stream looking for signs of the Hatch. There were no rises until about 8:15 when i finally found the right trico pattern I landed a small brown trout about 6″. Most of the Brown trout seemed to be in pods because of the extremely low water.

I was fishing a small flat. There was a fallen log under water that made a little riffle where some rainbows were stacked up. Landed a few rainbows there. The Trico hatch ended at about 11:30. Managed to land a big sucker on a BH Hairs Ear. Later in the day I was able to land a few fish on a Beetle Pattern. The fishing was ok but it was very tough because of the low water. It was essential to be stealthy and stay behind the fish. The fish were in pods and when you spooked one of the fish you spooked the whole pod.

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TBH visits the AuSable

I was invited to attend a TU school at the AuSable. I must say that the AuSable is one awesome river. There are great BWO, Caddis, and Trico hatches in July! Lots of great brook trout action now. Most of the Brown trout were under thick wooden cover and come out at night to feed. One morning we had a big trico hatch that started at 9:30 and the spinner fall ended at 12:00 Most brook trout were in the 7-10 inch range and i landed one 11 inch brookie!

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