Decent night on the Neversink

[Trout Guy]

After reading JC's temper tantrum, I decided to post a report to keep him from crying himself to sleep tonite.

I had a very stressful day and needed to take my fustrations out on some hatchery muntant trout on my local river, the Neversink.

As soon as I got to the 'Sink I noticed that insect activity was pretty impressive. Caddis were hatching consistantly untill about 7pm, the first four fish caught were taken on sparkle pupa fished in the film. All of which were muntants in the 10" range.

Being a little dissapointed, I high tailed it upstream from where the hatchery trucks dump their genetically impaired trout. Fishing up river was tough. I only netted one fish up there but it was a nice 13" wild brown taken on a BH softhackle hares ear.

About half an hour later the bugs turned off and so did the fish. All in all it was a decent couple hours of fishing.


Im hoping this weekend will bring similar results in the Catskills..

 

[lightenup]

Look at the tail on that fish...pretty impressive....

 

[Trout Guy]

Look at the tail on that fish...pretty impressive....

Yup, t'was a stellar brownie.

Much more rambunctious than the muntants that are thrown in river..

 

[Barleywine]

Not only is that tail huge, it's also quite forked. No spots on adipose fin. Maxillary doesn't look to be extending past the eye.

Any chance that's actually a landlocked salmon? I'm not great at telling the difference.

 

[Trout Guy]

Not only is that tail huge, it's also quite forked. No spots on adipose fin. Maxillary doesn't look to be extending past the eye.

Any chance that's actually a landlocked salmon? I'm not great at telling the difference.

Hmmmm, good call. I didn't even notice that.. I caught the fish lower in the river (orange co.) im pretty skeptical but lets not rule it out.

Maybe Ill try to catch that fish again and take better photos. I know exactly where he is.

 

[Trout Fever]

nice fish but the lower neversink i would lean more on a stockie than a wild!! they stock crazy amount of fish down there

 

[flyI4]

the tail on that fish caught my eye, but I thought it was just a healthy looking fish with a tail bigger than a fish of that size. Now that BW pointed it out, that tail is way too forked for a normal trout tail, though the dots are typical of what I've seen of Neversink wild browns. A new ll/brown trout hybrid? I think this calls for Rusty Spinner to talk to one of his biologist buddies and get to the bottom it this. I've heard of 2 other incidences of Landlocked Salmon caught on the lower Neversink below the dam, but at this size it is very tough to tell the two fish apart.

 

[lightenup]

That is the question...is that fish typical for wild trout on the Neversink....or it is unique...If it is unique, is it a hybrid as fly14 has suggested, or is it a landlocked Atlantic....Maybe its a Sasquatch?!?!?!?!

But it does have an impressive tail.....

 

[Future Fanatic]

I think it is the the photo/perspective of the camera that has you guys guessing.

First, I don't think the tail is THAT forked, but just laying flat on a round arm. I think the lens helps it LOOK forked. In addition, look at the arm CLOSEST to the camera in relation to the hand FARTHER away. Unless Troutguy moonlights as Popeye...

 

[tomfly]

I could be wrong but it looks like a Splake trout and I am not positive. I have caught a few in the Adirondacks. The tail looks close to what I have seen.