We got our spot in this 2-fly tournament at rose river farms in va…. Well todays weather pattern was very wacky…one second it was raining and then the next it was sunny and then it was a down pour.. Started out pretty good.. on my 3rd cast a had a hookup on a 15″ fish that we used as one of our three to measure
…good start to the day…
We had decied to not measure several 15″ fish because we had seen better fish in the pool…. well when it gets near the time to quit to stay with our game plan we needed to measure 1 more fish. (the plan was to measure 2 in the morning and 1 in the afternoon b/c it looked like crap) Finally hook a 12″ fish on my kreelex
The water was so low that there was no flow so i was stripping a pink nymph and getting plenty of hookups…. After two hours of fishing our AM beat we had lunch and then went to our next two hours of our PM beat within the 2nd cast of the PM session I hook into a 16″ fish that we decide to measure as our final fish.
After that i land a 17″ which it was to late to measure it =( and we landed some other 15″ fish. It was a great tournament and we ended up with 65pts. measured a 15″-12″-16″ as our three fish to measure. We totaled 9 fish. We came out on 5th place with only a few inches separating 4th from 3rd… 1st place team had 99pts with a total of 18 fish. It was really fun to be able to fish in the tournament with the guy who taught me to fly fish and we both caught good #s of fish. My two flies were a kreelex and a pink nymph…. the water was very low and the fish were semi spooky..
The Barbless Hook 