nicklenuts
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Hey there everyone, I thought I'd introduce myself.
Been lurking for a while but was hesitant to post for a long time for several reasons. But I've finally gotten up the nerve, and had a couple things happened to me recently that I thought would be good to share on a forum such as this. And as far as mature, civil discussions on fly fishing is concerned -- with a bit of humor involved as well -- this seems to be the place. Don't know if I need to post a "resume" or "portfolio" but I'll share a bit of my luck from my latest annual trip to the ADKs that I took with my father and sister at the beginning of the month.
The back story is that my grandfather used to take us on an annual fishing trip to the Adirondacks, where he grew up fishing the bush country section of the WB AuSable River before the logging roads were well established and gated off from the general public. Years ago he would take my father and my two uncles and they would camp out each and every memorial day weekend stream-side, and they would make out quite well. ~20 years ago I was brought into the tradition and I hope to continue that tradition with my son if/when he becomes interested in trout fishing. My sister has also taken up fly fishing and she has been joining us for the past several years as well. So to pay homage to my grandfather that is no longer well enough to accompany us, we continue to camp along the banks of the AuSable River and fish some of his favorite stretches before we move on to bigger (and better) waters. Here's what I have to offer in terms of visuals:
Got things started with a few stockies on the AuSable that took a custom woven yuk bug for lack of a better pattern description. And that continued to be the hot fly for the week.
If I remember correctly this one took a Grey Fox emerger which was the final fly I tied up before leaving the house.
Then we started getting into the fatter varieties on a different stretch of water, this guy didn't want to hold still for a pic.
But this one didn't mind a quick photo and measurement though, roughly 20 of these identical 16" browns were caught and released in a matter of hours between the 3 of us.
This didn't harm anything either...
A little bow for some color
I absolutely love pocket water, hard to find down where I live quite like this.
Just gorgeous wide open series of runs on another river.
This is the pattern that did the most damage over the long weekend, I had a single weighted and double weighted variation for the deeper sections -- dead drifted with a couple strips to end the presentation towards the bank absolutely crushed these ADK trout. I don't know if they thought it was a stone fly (what I'd been going for), salmon fly, or even a crayfish imitation -- this thing just worked amazingly well on every river we fished that week.
More 'rock', and some butterflies that just hatched while I was watching. Pretty cool thing to witness as opposed to stating at a computer screen.
And the ones that mattered most -- of course after the iPhone died and I had to go to a backup disposable camera...
I caught two 15" wild brown trout, and to cap off the trip I get to land a monster 21" adirondack wild brown trout all out of the same hole, all on that yuk bug pictured above. The pictures DO NOT do this fish justice, again it was a crappy disposable that had been in my bag for a couple years. It took me about 10 minutes to land, and he was peeling line off my reel so fast I had to chase him downstream to keep the upper hand in the battle. After the fight of my life on a fly rod, I was able to net and release this absolutely gorgeous trout. He was the most yellow/golden colored trout I've ever seen let alone caught -- I was very fortunate to have the opportunity to land this fish.
Here he is going back into the water
Hopefully he'll check back in next year - same time and place!
Well, that's all I have for this trip report this time -- but over 50 trout were caught and released over a fantastic June trip to the beautiful Adirondack Park.
Full disclosure: I ate a couple of brookies, they're my favorite and were delicious.
I have more on that rod and reel I showed in some of the pictures, but its a topic for another post and one that deserves its own thread.
tight lines!
Been lurking for a while but was hesitant to post for a long time for several reasons. But I've finally gotten up the nerve, and had a couple things happened to me recently that I thought would be good to share on a forum such as this. And as far as mature, civil discussions on fly fishing is concerned -- with a bit of humor involved as well -- this seems to be the place. Don't know if I need to post a "resume" or "portfolio" but I'll share a bit of my luck from my latest annual trip to the ADKs that I took with my father and sister at the beginning of the month.
The back story is that my grandfather used to take us on an annual fishing trip to the Adirondacks, where he grew up fishing the bush country section of the WB AuSable River before the logging roads were well established and gated off from the general public. Years ago he would take my father and my two uncles and they would camp out each and every memorial day weekend stream-side, and they would make out quite well. ~20 years ago I was brought into the tradition and I hope to continue that tradition with my son if/when he becomes interested in trout fishing. My sister has also taken up fly fishing and she has been joining us for the past several years as well. So to pay homage to my grandfather that is no longer well enough to accompany us, we continue to camp along the banks of the AuSable River and fish some of his favorite stretches before we move on to bigger (and better) waters. Here's what I have to offer in terms of visuals:
Got things started with a few stockies on the AuSable that took a custom woven yuk bug for lack of a better pattern description. And that continued to be the hot fly for the week.
If I remember correctly this one took a Grey Fox emerger which was the final fly I tied up before leaving the house.
Then we started getting into the fatter varieties on a different stretch of water, this guy didn't want to hold still for a pic.
But this one didn't mind a quick photo and measurement though, roughly 20 of these identical 16" browns were caught and released in a matter of hours between the 3 of us.
This didn't harm anything either...
A little bow for some color
I absolutely love pocket water, hard to find down where I live quite like this.
Just gorgeous wide open series of runs on another river.
This is the pattern that did the most damage over the long weekend, I had a single weighted and double weighted variation for the deeper sections -- dead drifted with a couple strips to end the presentation towards the bank absolutely crushed these ADK trout. I don't know if they thought it was a stone fly (what I'd been going for), salmon fly, or even a crayfish imitation -- this thing just worked amazingly well on every river we fished that week.
More 'rock', and some butterflies that just hatched while I was watching. Pretty cool thing to witness as opposed to stating at a computer screen.
And the ones that mattered most -- of course after the iPhone died and I had to go to a backup disposable camera...
I caught two 15" wild brown trout, and to cap off the trip I get to land a monster 21" adirondack wild brown trout all out of the same hole, all on that yuk bug pictured above. The pictures DO NOT do this fish justice, again it was a crappy disposable that had been in my bag for a couple years. It took me about 10 minutes to land, and he was peeling line off my reel so fast I had to chase him downstream to keep the upper hand in the battle. After the fight of my life on a fly rod, I was able to net and release this absolutely gorgeous trout. He was the most yellow/golden colored trout I've ever seen let alone caught -- I was very fortunate to have the opportunity to land this fish.
Here he is going back into the water
Hopefully he'll check back in next year - same time and place!
Well, that's all I have for this trip report this time -- but over 50 trout were caught and released over a fantastic June trip to the beautiful Adirondack Park.
Full disclosure: I ate a couple of brookies, they're my favorite and were delicious.
I have more on that rod and reel I showed in some of the pictures, but its a topic for another post and one that deserves its own thread.
tight lines!
